NEWS RELEASE September 26, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522, ext. 317, or (310) 292-1902, cell Big Oil U Pilloried On "Boston Legal" Season Premiere; $500 Million BP Deal at Berkeley Near Completion; Oil…
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Fall semester delayed at “UC BP”
08-30-07 by simpson Students have returned to college campuses across the country, but there apparently is a delay in the fall semester for Big Oil U’s largest extension campus at the University of California at…
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Chevron $ Makes Speaker Weak On Big Oil
NEWS RELEASE August 23, 2007 CONTACT: Jamie Court, (310) 392-0522 ext. 327, or Judy Dugan, ext. 305 Assembly Speaker’s Promised Action to Curb Gasoline Price Spikes Fails as Chevron Money Flows, Says Letter; Group Asks…
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Oil Money, Oil Votes
08-21-07 by dugan The datahounds at the Center for American Progress are issuing a good report on the Clean Energy Incentives portion of the big House Energy bill, linking yes and no votes to…
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Who’s Afraid of Biofuels?
08-14-07 by dugan The clearest statement I’ve seen about the motives of opponents of innovative biofuels–from oil interests to agro-industry–comes from a speech last Friday by Loren Beard, Chrysler’s senior manager for energy planning and…
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Will Dynes’ Legacy = UCBP?
NEWS RELEASE: August 13, 2007 CONTACT: John M. Simpson, (310) 392-0522, ext. 317, or (310) 292-1902, cell Consumer Advocates Warn Dynes Legacy Must Not Be Commercialization of UC System Santa Monica, CA — Robert C….
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Now, the Real Energy Bill
08-06-07 by dugan After much public brouhaha, the House and Senate versions of the energy bill are headed to the much more private place where the real bill will be written: a House-Senate conference committee….
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Just Can’t Spend It All
07-31-07 by dugan "With the world thirsty for more oil and cleaner fuels, Exxon Mobil and other oil firms have been spending billions to buy back their shares." A great sentence, but not my…
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What Ethanol Price Excuse?
07-31-07 by dugan Last year during the big spring price spike for gasoline, a prominent excuse offered by the oil industry was the high price of ethanol, which is blended with gasoline for clean-air…
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You’re Big Oil’s Piggy Bank
07-26-07 by dugan Once Upon a Time, Big Oil made its big profits on drilling oil. Now the oil guys are pickpocketing motorists directly, racking up ever-larger profits on gasoline and diesel production. Exxon…
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Governor Swimming in Greenwash
07-10-07 by dugan We all know about Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s meddling-by-proxy to slow down implementation of California’s global warming bill. Now we find out, from the San Jose Mercury News , that he’s an…
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Nothing Satisfies ‘T Rex’
06-27-07 by dugan You’d think, after the Senate dropped from its energy bill anything that might give heartburn to Big Oil, that ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson would be grinning ear to ear. But…
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Rustbelt Ally Smacks Detroit
06-27-07 by dugan It’s one thing when the bicoastal literati with clean, soft hands slam the Detroit clique that opposes any mandatory improvements in auto efficiency standards. It’s completely another when a fellow, and…