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Oil Drops 14%, Gas Only 3.4% – Fuel Prices Vary Significantly
"There's an old saying in [the] gasoline [industry]," Judy Dugan, research director for Consumer Watchdog in Santa Monica, Calif., said Monday. "Prices go up like a rocket and down like a feather. There is a higher disconnect between the actual price of oil and the price of gasoline." Gasoline prices have been viewed as the "last bastion of competition," Dugan said, "but in this case that appears to have failed." Still, gasoline prices in the state vary significantly.
Continue reading...Near Record High Gas Prices Not About Unrest In Middle East
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Consumer Watchdog's Jamie Court discusses why the spike in gas prices - especially in California - has nothing to do with civil unrest, and everything to do with profiteering.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog Says Rising Gas Prices Are Form Of Highway Robbery
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
On KFMB-TV Channel 8 in San Diego, CA, Judy Dugan from Consumer Watchdog says rising gas prices are a form of highway robbery.
Continue reading...Facts of Life On High Gas Prices: It’s the Speculators & Oil Companies To Blame Not Middle East
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
While skirmishes in Libya and uncertainty in the Middlie East are nice cover for outrageous gasoline prices, the fact is the same old suspects are making a killing from sky-high gas prices approaching $4 dollars per gallon in California: big oil companies and greedy speculators.
Continue reading...What BP’s Secrecy on Payout Deals Sacrifices
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
We've reported about what's wrong in the secrecy around BP's payments to Kenneth Feinberg and his law firm, which is doling out compensation for BP's devastating oil spill in the Gulf. Monday, though, the Center for Justice and Democracy got deep into the guts of the matter.
Continue reading...Spill Commission Defends Its Top Lawyer
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
The panel named by President Obama to investigate the BP Deepwater Horizon blowout on Tuesday rejected a call by a consumer activist group for the resignation of its chief counsel, Fred H. Bartlit Jr. The group, Consumer Watchdog, said that the panel should dismiss Mr. Bartlit because his law firm, Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott, once represented Halliburton, one of the companies involved in drilling the BP well.
Continue reading...Consumer Watchdog Exposes Koch Industries on Times Square Superscreen For Pollution, Tea Party Funding, and Climate Change Denial Using Coke Parody
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
New York, NY -- A national consumer group is running a 30 second commercial on a Times Square Superscreen that challenges Koch Industries, "the largest oil company you've never heard of," for its record of environmental degradation, political influence, Tea Party funding and climate change denial.
Continue reading...Barton’s Non-Apology
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Rep. Barton says some may have "misconstrued" his accusation of a White House "shakedown" and "national tragedy." by Khan Rep. Barton (TX) just took a moment to clear up his "shakedown" comment. Saying he thought BP should be held fully responsible, and should be forced to "make good" on its liabilities, Barton hopes [...]
Continue reading...Congress Gets It Backward
Thursday, June 17, 2010
How is it that renewable energy producers struggle to renew expiring, and already expired, tax breaks and other funding credits in Congress, while the Senate overwhelmingly refuses to cut Big Oil’s $35 billion in taxpayer subsidies? Something to ponder as BP’s CEO faces withering fire for BP’s catastrophic spill in a House Committee hearing [...]
Continue reading...Will BP’s CEO Take the Fifth?
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
06-08-10 by dugan Can BP tell the truth about the causes of the catastrophe it caused in the Gulf of Mexico? A hearing June 17 (date corrected) in the House Energy and Commerce Committee may tell us a lot. BP CEO Tony Hayward is the prime witness, and it looks like the committee may put [...]
Continue reading...Drilling Dereg: Darth Did It
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
6-2-10 by dugan It was Dick Cheney’s secretive, dour demeanor that earned him the nickname "Darth Vader" when he was vice president. But he also had Darth’s slash-and-burn tendencies. Cheney, we now learn, stacked the federal Minerals Management Service with Wyoming pols and oil industry pals who eagerly followed Cheney’s maximum deregulation philosophy. Leading, [...]
Continue reading...Sympathetic Hired Guns
Tuesday, March 2, 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 [...]
Continue reading...Oil Lobby Loves Photoshop
Thursday, December 10, 2009
It’s a cheap shot, but I’m never above making the oil lobby look phony and stupid. Thanks to TPM for posting a photo from an American Petroleum Institute pamphlet that appears to show a (slightly) racially diverse group of industry employees. Except… 1. It’s a stock photo of some random group. 2. The race of [...]
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011
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