4-22-08 by dugan The headlne today seemed promising: "Bush Voices Concern About Record Oil Price." It’d be a step forward from a president who recently said he’d never heard a thing about…
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Archive | Tag: negligence
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Demand for White House Action
April 21, 2008 News Release Contact: Judy Dugan, 310 392-0522, ext. 305 White House Silence, Inaction on Pump Price Spike is Opposite of Bush 2006 Response, Says Group Consumers, Economy Are Buckling…
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Green Prize Wilts Chevron
4-15-08 by dugan Chevron’s world headquarters in San Ramon, Calif., is less than 40 miles from San Francisco’s stately opera house. So if bad thoughts could kill, last night’s audience for the prestigious…
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Exxon’s Terrorism Card
12-30-07 by dugan The story sounds familiar: Rural villagers in an unsettled part of the world accuse a big U.S. oil company of supporting and abetting the atrocities of government soldiers. It could be…
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BP Pleads Guilty
11-29-07 by simpson BP pleaded guilty today to failing to prevent a huge spill in America’s largest oil field on Alaska’s North Slope. Bumbling Petroleum has agreed to a fine of $20 million for one…
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More Chevron Downside
11-28-07 by dugan Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez’s campaign to win Latin American hearts and minds has developed a new twist that should set hearts aflutter (not in a good way) at Chevron’s investor…
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No Room for Denial
11-17-07 by dugan Some disasters seem just too enormous to grasp. Every version of the U.N. climate change report is more dire and more certain about the effects of climate change. The final…
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The ‘Dictator Penalty’
11-16-07 by dugan Bought any of that Chevron gasoline currently averaging more than $3.40 a gallon in California? A few pennies of that will now go to pay Chevron’s $30 million settlement of a…
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Next: Oil Tanker Meth Labs?
10-30-07 by dugan If you’d like to run a small meth lab on the open seas, away from national laws, ExxonMobil may have a high-paying job for you! That’s a reasonable intrpretation of…
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BP Moves ‘Beyond Problems’
10-29-07 by Simpson First BP tried to position itself as Beyond Petroleum, though Bumbling Petroleum is more accurate. Now with cold cash — just pocket change to the oil giant — BP is trying to…
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BP Says ‘Breathe This’
10-22-07 by dugan Either no one at BP’s big Carson, CA refinery has seen a TV for two days or its management just doesn’t give a damn about what the neighbors breathe. With Southern…
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BP Keeps on Bumbling
09-26-07 by dugan Lots of folks have sent along a Financial Times report that BP’s CEO sees its third-quarter performance as "dreadful." (Here’s a later recap from the Guardian, with updates). BP CEO Tony…
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FTC Falls on Its Sword
The guys (yeah, it’s mostly guys) at the Western Weights and Measures Association conference here in Tahoe are serious about their math, but they have a great sense of humor. Lately the joke is on…