05-28-07 by dugan The LA Times editorial page awaited me on return from a few days off, and it banished the glow of relaxation. “Don’t Blame Oil Companies” for high gasoline prices, said the editorial…
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Blowing Smoke About Prices
By Simpson 05-11-07 API, formerly and more accurately known as the American Petroleum Institute, is behind misleading full-page newspaper advertisements trying to blame the price of crude oil for the daily outrage at the nation’s…
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Californians Do Drive Less
04-13-07 by Dugan There was hand-wringing and tut-tutting recently when news stories (NYT, sub req’d) said U.S. motorists were driving more, not less, as gasoline prices rose. Now, some common sense from Elizabeth Douglass…
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Who’s To Blame For Gas Prices?
04-09-07 by Court The media debate about who is to blame for rising gasoline prices is on. Last week perennial pundit George Will took the oil industry’s line in his syndicated column that gasoline prices…
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$4 Gas? It’s Already Here
Dow Jones’ online Marketwatch predicts today that U.S. gasoline prices could reach $4 a gallon. Bulletin: In San Francisco they already have, at some stations. The area average today hit $3.363, matching its all-time…
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War Protests At Chevron: The Why
Most news stories about anti-war protesters who gathered Monday in front of Chevron’s San Ramon headquarters were fuzzy on the reasons why Chevron was targeted. A few, including the local CBS affiliate, nailed it: Chevron…
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The Editorial Not Seen in U.S. Papers
This editorial from the major daily Montreal Gazette gets it: Big Oil’s deliberate restriction of refinery capacity and gasoline stocks drives up the pump price and fills the bulging treasuries of the major oil companies….
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Where Are the Media’s Skeptics?
The airwaves and the web this morning are full of stories bemoaning the return of $3.00-a-gallon gasoline in much of California, 50 cents above the national average and nearly 45 cents above last year’s California…
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Green Talk Wraps Same Old Chevron, Exxon
Chevron CEO David O’Reilly wants U.S. shorelines surveyed at half a billion dollars in taxpayer expense, then opened to more oil drilling–and he’d like to stop states like California that try to curb global warning…