11/24/08 by dugan Mark Twain never heard the phrase "shale oil," but he was dead on when he said of the West, "Whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting. Whiskey-wise, I’d like a double sinker after…
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Shale oil and water wars
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Chevron’s relentless greenwash
11-21-08 by dugan We at OilWatchdog have been relentlessly critical of Chevron’s faux-green ad campaigns (here, here, here and here.) I’ve recently heard from reporters who are sniffing around the ubiquitous image ads–the fortune Chevron…
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OWD and “Black Gold” on CNBC
9-24-08 by dugan Yes, it’s hard to give up an episode of CSI, but take a look tonight at a CNBC investigative documentary, "Black Gold," airing at 9:30 Eastern (or whenever President Bush’s speech on…
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Palin’s big fat oil tax
9-4-08 by dugan In her first speech Wednesday as a VP candidate, Sarah Palin got whooping cheers for her accomplishments as governor of Alaska, including a big state budget surplus. But Palin didn’t mention how…
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Cap and trade, explained
8-27-08 by dugan There’s no question that tough, enforceable reductions of carbon emissions are the only way to reduce the threat of global warming. Or that the world is heading into a market-based "cap and…
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The Bakken! Invest now!
8-27-08 by dugan A friend asked me today about all the investment hype and other excitement surrounding the so-called Bakken Formation oil reserves. Here’s the gist of what I told him, which might make him…
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Gold medal in greenwash
8-17-08 by dugan Watching ExxonMobil’s ad blitz on NBC during the Olympics, you’d think it was a company dedicated to teaching science, mentoring young engineers and eradicating malaria in the Third World. At an estimated…
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Drill or not? Here’s the answer
8-7-08 by dugan Sometimes comedy is just the right cure. Here’s the last word, from Jon Stewart, on why no one should trust the folks saying we need to "drill now, drill everywhere" in the…
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What comes after newspapers?
7-22-08 by dugan The cratering of the L.A. Times and the rest of Tribune Co. has me worrying, again, about who will hold the powerful, the corrupt and the incompetent to account when all the…
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Beggar with an ermine cup
The PR departments of the major oil companies are madly developing their spin for the yet-another-record 2nd quarter profits they’re about to report. What they’ll say: "Without these gigantic profits (including billions in taxpayer subsidies),…
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Bubble’s leaking. What next?
7-17-08 by dugan As the price of a barrel of crude oil dropped to under $130 today, down from its high of $145-plus a barrel, I picked this as quote ‘o the day: "We have…
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‘Hotrod’ defends ethanol’s MPG
7-15-08 by dugan I’ve long heard that a car with the engine correctly adjusted for ethanol can run as economically as a car running on gasoline. Yet AAA, which publishes daily gasoline and diesel prices…
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Beware T. Boone Pickens
7-9-08 by dugan I woke up this morning and found out that oilman T. Boone Pickens may save the Earth–at least according to much of the MSM. Here’s USA Today on energy billionaire Pickens’…