11-17-08 by dugan Sitting inside the wreckage of the rest of the U.S. economy, Exxon Corp. beams with fiscal health. It is protected by its insular, petroleum-only culture, as described in a long NY Times…
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What Exxon owes us ‘sissies’
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Voters saw through Pickens
11-6-08 by dugan California was the tip on Boone Pickens’ spear. His Proposition 10, demanding taxpayer billions to finance a new market in natural gas fuels (Pickens’ chief business). It was obviously a first shot…
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Arnold’s oil tax epiphany?
11-6-08 by dugan I’ve been out of town for several days, and the news today makes me wonder if the governor of California had a near-religious epiphany while I was gone. Arnold Schwarzenegger just embraced…
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Chevron Doubles Profit
Chevron’s Doubled Profit Caps Oil Industry’s ‘Vampire Attack on Economy’ Current Oil Price Breather Is Right Time for Action to Prevent Next Speculative Bubble, Says Group October 31, 2008 Santa Monica, CA — The…
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Exxon, Shell Post Record Profits
Exxon, Shell Profit Records Cap an Orgy That Weakened U.S., World Economies, Says Group ‘Consumers Now Know Where Their Money Went’; Congress, White House Must Prevent a Repeat of Costly Energy Bubble CONTACT: Judy Dugan,…
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Fun with Pickens’ pocket-picking
10-23-08 by dugan We Californians have had about all we can take of slogging through a dozen ballot initiatives on the Nov. 4 ballot, most of them from narrow special interests. Those special interests include…
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Clap to save green energy
8-22-08 by dugan OK, oil is a fraction of the price it was in July, and gasoline is finally below $3.00 a gallon. Natural gas is also about 50% below its top price this summer….
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Want Jobs? Go Green
10-20-08 by dugan The nasty state of the economy means that a lot of planned government programs may hit the chopping block. Environmentalists fear that green initiatives, including renewable power, will stall. But…
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Oil profiteering, both ways
10-9-08 by dugan It’s almost time for oil companies to tell us how astounding their "earnings" were in the last three months–how, as the economy tumbled deep into recession and Americans lost their jobs and…
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Bailout’s bucks for polluters
10-3-08 by dugan "Left undisciplined, unregulated and unsupervised, they created chaos." That was Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s acid, and correct, judgment of the nation’s financial behemoths after Congress forked over $700 billion taxpayer dollars to bail…
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Petunia in the Mojave
10-1-06 by dugan Back from the dead. No, not just the bailout bill, but tax credits for wind and solar energy projects, which for months have been a pawn in the battles of dysfunctional…
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Renewable energy update
9-26-08 by dugan Friday update: The House passed its version of the renewable energy tax credit, but it’s still a long shot that the Senate will accept all the changes: three bills instead of one,…
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Renewable energy credit fading
9-25-08 by dugan The House was supposed to take up a Senate tax bill today that would, among other things, extend a crucial renewable energy tax credit that will otherwise expire at the end of…