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Murder in the U.S. Senate
7-30-08 by dugan The noise, hearings and promises in Congress about oil prices and energy relief are adding up to precisely zero result. Even the most modest, targeted bills are falling off the…
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Alaska, the U.S. oil-state
7-29-08 by dugan Alaska being the closest thing in the U.S. to an oil nation, it didn’t take long to find a connection between newly indicted Sen. Ted Stevens and British-owned BP, a major driller…
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BP Posts Record 2nd Qtr Profits
NEWS RELEASE: BP Profits: ‘Congratulations Are Not In Order,’ Says Consumer Watchdog New Quarterly Records Show Oil Companies ‘Spiting the Future For the Sake of Cash in Hand’ CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522 ext. 305, or…
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‘Hotrod’ defends ethanol’s MPG
7-15-08 by dugan I’ve long heard that a car with the engine correctly adjusted for ethanol can run as economically as a car running on gasoline. Yet AAA, which publishes daily gasoline and diesel prices…
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Beware T. Boone Pickens
7-9-08 by dugan I woke up this morning and found out that oilman T. Boone Pickens may save the Earth–at least according to much of the MSM. Here’s USA Today on energy billionaire Pickens’…
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Why cheaper gas is right
06-20-08 by dugan I’ve gotten some e-mails telling OilWatchdog that it’s off course in asking drivers to send their gas bills to Congress and demand some action to get prices down. One group says we…
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Bush wants west’s water
06-18-08 What I heard today in President Bush’s push to extract Western shale oil was this: Let’s subsidize Big Oil to turn Southern California into a desert and huge swaths of the West into polluted,…
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Greed for pennies
Just when you think big oil companies like ExxonMobil might be content with tens of billions of yearly profits, they surprise you by grasping for pennies. This time it’s not just the driver at the…
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Exxon’s Not-Such-a-Victory
5-28-08 by dugan Today’s large-shareholder revolt against Exxon’s management got just under 40% of shareholder votes today about what it got at last year’s annual meeting. Exxon viewed it as a victory, but…
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Copy-Machine Oil Hearings
5-22-08 by dugan Watching the same pack of oil executives troop to the House of Representatives today and the Senate yesterday was mostly a deja vu experience. The execs’ canned testimony was from…
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Throw It At the Wall…
5-9-08 by dugan …And See If It Sticks. That appears to be where government stands on quelling oil and gasoline prices. Congress is now proposing bucketsful of legislation and other actions in a…
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Chevron’s Record 1st Qtr Profit
NEWS RELEASE: Chevron Rides Soaring Crude Oil Prices To Record Profit As Consumers Feel Squeeze At Pump CONTACT: John Simpson, 310-392-0522 x317, cell 310-292-1902; or Jamie Court x327 May 02, 2008 Santa Monica, CA —…