5-25-07 by Court The Oil Price Information Service (OPIS), a pricey oil industry insider news wire, is reporting that gasoline prices on the "spot market" are falling like a rock. The change isn’t as dramatic…
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Archive | Tag: price-gouging
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The Crude Gap
One consequence of record gasoline prices is that the oil industry is no longer able to claim with a straight face that crude oil prices are responsible for inflation at the pump. In today’s Contra…
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Defining Gouging
5-24-07 by Court TV is buzzing about the House of Representatives passage of new legislation to restrict gasoline price gouging. The laudable goal is to restrict unconscionable prices, and it is laudable that the debate…
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New Record–Not the Good Kind
05-21-07 by dugan We can hear the screams of Illinois drivers as far away as LA. Gasoline refining profits that are hitting nearly $1 a gallon nationwide today shoved the national average price for a…
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Nunez Has Tough Words, Details to Follow
05-18-07 by dugan I went to a freeway-adjacent Chevron Station in LA ($3.49 a gallon for regular) this morning to hear Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez talk very tough about the oil and refining industries:…
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Plan to Curb Big Oil on Right Track
NEWS RELEASE: May 17, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, cell: 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, cell: 310-874-9989 Nunez Plan to Curb Refineries is On Right Track, Says Group; As In Electricity Crisis, Close Oversight of Gasoline Producers…
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Let the Oil Guys’ Grilling Begin
05-17-07 by dugan Wish I’d been in Washington this week to watch John Felmy squirm under the jaded eyes of a House antitrust subcommittee. Felmy is the chief economist (read: mouthpiece) for the American Petroleum…
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Gov: Relief at Pump…in 2020
05-17-07 by dugan I know that letters to newspapers can’t be judged for logic in the same way that articles are, especially when they come from the government. Letters editors are like the Sorcerer’s Apprentice,…
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Fuel Prices Driving Spending Cuts
NEWS RELEASE: May 16, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (310) 392 0522, ext. 305; cell 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell 310-874-9989 Group Sees Fuel Prices Driving Food Price Increase and Consumer Spending Cuts; Letter…
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Reform’s In the Mail
5-15-07 by Court After our oped in yesterday’s LA Times condemning the political silence in Sacramento, we got an angry call saying there was some reform for high gasoline prices in the works. Interestingly, the…
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Gov Must Return Chevron’s $100K
NEWS RELEASE: May 9, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, cell: 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310-874-9989 Group Demands that Gov. Schwarzenegger Return $100,000 from Chevron; Donation Made As State Is Gripped…
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Yes, We Have a Petition!
05-08-07 by dugan Day One and counting for the OilWatchdog readers’ gasoline price petition to government. First we’ll do California, then later we’ll challenge Congress. See the "Sign Petition" button on the home page or…
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Petition Urges Curbs On CA Gas Prices
NEWS RELEASE:May 7, 2007 Contact: Judy Dugan, (310) 392-0522 ext. 305, cell: 213-280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell 310 874-9989 Petition Urges Governor, Legislature to Act Now on Spiraling Gasoline Prices; Online Petition By…