Archive | March, 2010
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‘Drill, Baby’ Doesn’t Cut Oil Price
Posted by Judy Dugan
3-31-10 by dugan After President Obama announced Wendnesday that he’s opening large swath of U.S. coastline to oil and gas drilling, and the government announced that domestic oil supplies had risen, the price of oil went… UP. That’s pretty much proof positive that the price of oil is all about financial speculation, and not [...]
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‘Clean’ Coal PR, Dirty Reality
Posted by Judy Dugan
29. March 2010
3-29-10 by dugan Just as the oxymoronic American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity launched a new campaign telling us that coal is sooo much cheaper than natural gas (coal’s chief, and cleaner, competitor), the admirable Center for Investigative Reporting announced its new documentary, "Dirty Business," showing us exactly why "clean coal" isn’t. The ad campaign [...]
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Blaming Big Oil
15. March 2010
Blaming Big Oil Critics see price-gouging as refinery capacity is cut; the industry says it’s just business. By Editorial, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES March 15, 2010 A few years ago, when SUVs still ruled American roads and gasoline prices were skyrocketing, consumers and politicians howled that oil companies were guilty of price-gouging because they refused [...]
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Oil Co’s Look At Refinery Cuts
10. March 2010
Oil Companies Look At Permanent Refinery Cutbacks The response to slumping gasoline use would likely mean higher prices for drivers. Consumer advocates want regulators to examine the firms’ plans. By Ronald D. White, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES March 10, 2010 Some of the nation’s biggest oil companies are looking at permanently reducing how much gasoline [...]
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Run From Guys With Clipboards
Posted by Judy Dugan
5. March 2010
3-5-10 by dugan I guess its’s fitting that it took a New York newspaper to inform Californians that a couple of giant Texas oil refining companies are bankrolling a ballot initiative to kill the state’s popular climate change/green energy law. The whole saga is much like Oklahoma oilman T. Boone Pickens’ failed effort in [...]
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Sympathetic Hired Guns
Posted by Judy Dugan
2. March 2010
3-2-10 by dugan While the end game on health care legislation sucks up the available news space, proposals to curb greenhouse gas emissions are being picked to shreds by power companies, coal companies, oil interests, large agribusiness and… senior citizens? The first member group that pops up on the website of Energy Citizens, an [...]
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