06-26-07 by dugan OilWatchdog’s home in California is a continent away from Albany, NY, but this editorial in the Albany Times Union shows the credibility of oil companies is in the tank from coast…
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First Venezuela, Then….
06-25-07 by dugan ExxonMobil and Conoco Philllips are playing a high-stakes game of chicken with Venezuelan strongman Hugo Chavez over his seizure of control in the companies’ Orinoco oilfields. The worst-case result could be the…
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A World of ‘If ‘On Energy Bill
06/22/07 by dugan Yes, at least the Senate’s energy bill vote yesterday wasn’t about opening US coastlines to unlimited drilling and tearing up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to get at maybe six months’…
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Big Oil’s ‘Buy Low, Sell High”
06-20-07 by dugan We’re seeing oil industry clout chip away at the vigor of the energy bill. Today Big Oil got to keep an accounting trick that saves it $4.3 billion a year in…
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OPEC’s Threat Against Biofuel
OPEC today threatened to cut its investment in oil drilling, sending prices “sky-high,” if the U.S. and Europe even move toward any significant switch to biofuels. It sounds just like Big Oil’s threat to…
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Schumer vs. Samuelson: No Contest
Sen. Charles Schumer of NY is probably the most knowledgable legislator in Washington when it comes to Big Oil issues and misdeeds. He gives a backhand to columnist Robert Samuelson in a letter in the…
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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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‘Aspirational Goals’=Delay, Deny
06-01-07 by dugan President Bush’s big media splash for his greenhouse gas speech Thursday is getting—belatedly—the thrashing it deserves. Check out columnist Dan Froomkin in Washingtonpost.com today: [Bush] put forth a new proposal on climate…
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Exxon Shareholders Want Action
NEWS RELEASE: May 30, 2007 CONTACT: Judy Dugan, (310) 392-0522, ext. 305, cell: 213 280-0175, or Jamie Court, ext. 327, cell: 310-874-9989 Global Warming Resolution Gains Surprising Support From Exxon Shareholders; 31% ‘Yes’ Vote Puts…
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Chevron’s Big BioDiesel Greenwash
5-29-07 by dugan Folks, here’s the announcement you definitely won’t hear today: Chevron Corp., with the unveiling of a large Galveston Bay biodiesel plant today, also announced the launch of “Chevron Clean D,” a branded…
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The Ethanol Excuse
The New York Times reports that oil companies are using the political push to increase ethanol production as an excuse not to increase their refinery production The nation’s fuel supplies are so low that we…
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Stanford Bows to Concerns
NEWS RELEASE: May 17, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522, ext. 317, or cell: (310) 292-1902, or Jamie Court, ext. 327 Stanford Bows to Concerns About Ties To "Big Oil U"; University Will Vote…
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OilWatchdog Legislative Proposal
OilWatchdog’s May 16, 2007 <a href=”https://consumerwatchdog.org/resources/CALegLtrGasPrices.pdf”>outline for a legislative agenda </a>on California gasoline prices and biofuels development, sent to the California Legislature