Tag Archive | "hot fuel"
Costco caves on ‘hot fuel’
8-11-08 by dugan For a while, it looked like the discount chain Costco might be the pioneer in offering drivers a truly fair deal on gasoline by doing away with the ‘hot fuel’ ripoff. There were rumors last year that at least some of its California stores would [...]
Continue reading...Greed for pennies
Friday, June 13, 2008
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 pump being squeezed, but corner gas station owners and gasoline wholesalers. Exxon is running the stations out of business, and [...]
Continue reading...Hot summer, hot fuel
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
6-04-08 by dugan One of the reasons I hear for the continued rise in natural gas prices is that it’s going to be a very hot summer in much of the country. Lots of air conditioning. Also lots of hot fuel. And as we all know by now, when the temperature of gasoline hits 90 [...]
Continue reading...“Hot Fuel” Fix Urgent
Thursday, May 22, 2008
NEWS RELEASE Zooming Oil Price Makes "Hot Fuel" Fix More Urgent as Memorial Day Approaches Consumer Groups Criticize Oil Industry Resistance to Fixing Hidden Charge at Pump That Costs U.S. Drivers Close to $3 Billion Yearly CONTACT: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, x305 May 22, 2008 Washington, D.C. — As Memorial Day kicks off the summer driving [...]
Continue reading...Milk Is Sold Fairly; Not Gas
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
4-23-08 by dugan Edited 4/23, 5:00 p.m. to use exact temperature benchmarks, as provided by K. Floren. Around a meeting table at the California Energy Commission today, some of us were stifling yawns. Then, in one sentence, a veteran weights and measures regulator put the "hot fuel" issue in a perfect frame: Every packaged [...]
Continue reading...Yep, We have Hot Fuel
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
4-01-08 (4/02 correction: Average California gasoline temperature based on raw data of study is 71.1 degrees, not 76.4, based on raw data from state study). A year-long study of gasoline temperatures in the state finished up yesterday and is now posted online. The average yearly fuel temperature in California came out at 71.2 degrees, [...]
Continue reading...Hot Fuel’s Alternate Universe
Monday, March 24, 2008
3-24-08 by dugan Sometimes when an argument doesn’t make sense, it’s the argument’s fault. That was my conclusion when a weights and measures official from New York came to the California Energy Commision to defend gas stations’ practice of selling "hot fuel," which gives drivers less value than they think when they buy [...]
Continue reading...CA Gas Price Tops Hawaii
Monday, March 17, 2008
NEWS RELEASE – Contact: Judy Dugan, 310-392-0522, x 305 (cell: 213 280-0175), or Jamie Court, x 327 Californians Say Aloha (in the Bye-Bye Sense) to Their Savings — State Gasoline Price Tops Hawaii California’s Record Pump Price is $3.634, Usual Leader Hawaii Drops to $3.62 — Group Praises Hawaii Effort to Expose Profits Santa Monica, [...]
Continue reading...Three-Penny Operatics
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
3-12-08 by dugan When oil marketing lobbyists argue that motorists don’t need or deserve a fix for the "hot fuel" ripoff, their fallback is that a consumer loss of a few cents a gallon just isn’t worth fixing. For Californians, for instance, the average loss is now 3.5 cents a gallon, at the [...]
Continue reading...Fuel Issue Sizzles in DC, CA
Thursday, March 6, 2008
3-06-08 by dugan $4.00 gasoline isn’t a prediction any more, despite the fact that President Bush hadn’t heard a word about it. There are California stations charging up to $3.99 for regular and nearly $4.20 for premium. The state average for regular is at a record $3.52 a gallon. The rest of the nation [...]
Continue reading...How Hot Fuel Fix Got Axed
Friday, February 22, 2008
2-22-08 by dugan Is this week’s early-stage victory for a national lawsuit against the "hot fuel" ripoff important? Ever more so, Considering the collapse of would-be regulation to fix it. Here’s a memo I wrote recently to the National Conference on Weights and Measures, giving a flavor of how cowed by industry the [...]
Continue reading...National ‘Hot Fuel’ Suit Update
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Consumer Victory as National ‘Hot Fuel’ Lawsuit Moves Forward on All Counts Federal District Judge in Kansas City Refuses to Dismiss Suit Against Petroleum Marketers Alleging Deceptive Sale of Gasoline, Diesel Fuel Santa Monica, CA — The sale of “hot fuel” will bring a long, uncomfortable summer to petroleum marketers, refiners and oil companies with [...]
Continue reading...Wacky Weights ‘n Measures
Monday, January 28, 2008
1-28-08 by dugan A t-shirt widely sold in Albuquerque, N.M., where the National Conference on Weights and Measures is meeting, says: "Keep the Quirky in ‘Querque." Today was "Quirky" and far, far more at this meeting. Oil and gasoline lobbyists spent seven hours railing to a committee that fixing the "hot fuel" ripoff would [...]
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