NEWS RELEASE July 24, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, or cell: 213-280-0175 BP’s 2nd Quarter Refining Windfall Shores Up Lower Profit Elsewhere; Rest of Big Oil Will Show Same Pattern Of More Money…
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Study: Refinery Cuts = Price Spikes
NEWS RELEASE July 23, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, or Doug Heller, ext. 309, or Tim Hamilton, 360-495-4941 "The Katrina Syndrome": Study Finds Oil Refiners’ Inventory Cuts Generated 2007 Price Spikes; Investigation, Oversight…
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Exxon Admits “Hot Fuel” Ripoff
NEWS RELEASE July 17, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, ext. 305, or cell: 213-280-0175 ExxonMobil Pump Decals Will Admit "Hot Fuel" Ripoff to Consumers; Group Demands the Next Step: Fix the Problem Santa Monica, CA…
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‘Hot Fuel’ Fix Threatened
06-19-07 Help! E-mail or call your Senator now (see suggested message below), to keep alive a fix for the ‘hot fuel’ ripoff. Senators intent on hauling home pork, scoring points with contributors and getting…
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Bar Chart From Hell
06-15-07 by dugan Check out this startling graphic on refinery use from last week’s federal oil report. The Wednesday roundup from the Energy Information Administration is usually just chatty propaganda: It’s where the Bush…
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Memories of ’06
06-14-07 by dugan Last year at this time, spot crude oil was about $5.50 a barrel (13.1 cents a gallon) higher than same week this year. Gasoline was, nationally, 14.5 cents a gallon cheaper….
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Can Lawmakers Resist Big Oil?
06-14-07 by dugan You wouldn’t have known from the MSM in California that three modest proposals for curbing Big Oil’s consumer abuses passed their first key committee votes in the California Legislature this week….
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Gas Stations Feel Your Pain
06-11-07 by dugan Here’s the best story I’ve seen on why your local gas station isn’t to blame for any part of this year’s astronomical gasoline prices. USA Today shows us how station owners are…
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Congress: Yep, Hot Fuel’s a Ripoff
06-08-07 by dugan We’re happy to see Congressional validation of the billion-dollar hot fuel ripoff: gasoline sold at high temperatures, offering less energy than motorists are paying for. Steve Everly, the Kansas City Star’s…
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Step 1 Against Price Gouging
I asked Tim Hamilton, an oil industry analyst who advises OilWatchdog, to take a look at the first bill to emerge from Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez’s promise to rein in the oil industry in California….
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Big Oil vs. OilWatchdog
06-04-07 by dugan It’s the most exciting debate since… Paris Hilton’s Prison Sentence? Read me taking on Tom Tanton of the Exxon-funded Institute for Energy Research, in the LA Times’ Opinion section “Dust-Up" online. We…
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Are Gas Prices Too High? Hmm
I’ve moved for the week to the LA Times’ online Dust-Up, (here, then click on Dust-Up, at top center of page) debating Tom Tanton of the Houston-based (and oil/energy industry funded) Institute for Energy Research….
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Yes, Blame the Oil Companies
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…