1-17-08 by dugan As most of us don’t remember offhand, the price of crude oil a year ago was $52 a barrel. I looked it up after reading a speech that Red Cavaney, longtime head…
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Grab the Greenwash, Then Run
12-21-07 by dugan My earlier doubts about Chevron’s ballyhooed investment in a Galveston biodiesel plant were too mild. After garnering a bunch of admiring news stories, including in the New York Times, Chevron is…
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EPA “Disappears” the Evidence?
12-21-07 by dugan Today’s award for worst job in the world goes to EPA spokeswoman Jennifer Wood. She’s saying that an EPA staff Powerpoint presentation defending California’s right to regulate auto emissions can’t be…
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Sue their Brains Out!
12-19-07 by dugan The ink wasn’t dry on President Bush’s energy bill signature today when the White House denied California’s waiver request to enforce its greenhouse emissions law. Obviously this was a signed-and-sealed plan….
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Energy Bill: Crumbs or Loaves?
12-19-07 by dugan Looking at the energy bill, I’d say Congress is settling for crumbs and trying to count them as loaves–at least until 2009 and TEOB, "The End of Bush." That leaves a…
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Cheaper Than Coal at 80 mph
12-18-07 by dugan I want a hybrid electric GT with a dark, glossy exterior wrap that’s actually a cheap solar-electric film. It would boost battery power and range whenever the sun shines. The concept…
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Calling Big Oil’s Tax Bluff
12-14-07 by dugan If legislation were poker, this column in the Washington Post would have Big Oil and its corporate allies chucking their hands. It’s too bad that Post business columnist Steven Pearlstein…
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What Was DiFi Thinking?
12-13-07 by dugan The energy bill passed the Senate tonight, composed of not much more than the 35 mpg auto standard and some pork for biofuels. But as far as OilWatchdog can tell, a…
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Biofuels vs. Oil: Wrong Battle
12-13-07 by dugan The folks who don’t like biofuels often argue that ethanol, because of the energy used to produce it, is pointless, even a net energy loss. Here’s the highly reasoned answer by…
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Oops! Disappearing Greenwash
12-11-07 by dugan Shell and BP are under fire for talking green and doing the opposite. Britain’s Guardian newspaper has the story. "Shell, the oil company that recently trumpeted its commitment to a…
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Hooray for ‘Cheap and Clean’
11-29-07 by dugan I was struck by the stock analysts’ reaction in today’s New York Times story to Google’s announcement that it would invest up to hundreds of millions of dollars to commercially develop renewable…
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Exxon’s Redemptive Moment
11-28-07 by dugan Exxon just announced its development of a Holy Grail for electric cars, a technology to make lithium ion batteries bigger and more powerful without overheating, even bursting into flames. Here’s…
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L.A.’s First Drop of E85
11-15-07 by dugan Listen up, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, Conoco and BP. A little family-owned gasoline station in West L.A. (location below) called Conservfuel will soon be the first in Los Angeles and second in…