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Groups Seek Hot Fuel Records
Consumer Groups Seek Records of California Energy Commission On Disputed ‘Hot Fuel’ Report, After Conflict of Interest Charge Against Commissioner Santa Monica, CA — Consumer Watchdog and Public Citizen have filed a detailed request for public records of the California Energy Commission, seeking communications between its professional staff and a politically appointed member of the [...]
Continue reading...CEC Deep Freeze On Hot Fuel
Thursday, December 4, 2008
California Energy Board Seeks To Put Remedy for ‘Hot Fuel’ Ripoff in Deep Freeze — Group Calls for Immediate Fix Draft Report Accepts Industry Call for Ban on Temperature-Compensating Device, Denies Consumers Would Benefit From Any Remedy Santa Monica, CA — A California Energy Commission (CEC) draft report on the “hot fuel” ripoff proves beyond [...]
Continue reading...Shale oil and water wars
Monday, November 24, 2008
11/24/08 by dugan Mark Twain never heard the phrase "shale oil," but he was dead on when he said of the West, "Whiskey’s for drinking, water’s for fighting. Whiskey-wise, I’d like a double sinker after hearing that the Bush administration is close to reopening shale-oil mining and extraction from public lands in the West, which [...]
Continue reading...Chevron’s relentless greenwash
Friday, November 21, 2008
11-21-08 by dugan We at OilWatchdog have been relentlessly critical of Chevron’s faux-green ad campaigns (here, here, here and here.) I’ve recently heard from reporters who are sniffing around the ubiquitous image ads–the fortune Chevron is spending on the ads is so obviously out of proportion to the size of the piddling green projects the [...]
Continue reading...Bailout’s bucks for polluters
Friday, October 3, 2008
10-3-08 by dugan "Left undisciplined, unregulated and unsupervised, they created chaos." That was Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s acid, and correct, judgment of the nation’s financial behemoths after Congress forked over $700 billion taxpayer dollars to bail them out. The same should be said of oil companies and markets. Yet instead of starting to rein in an [...]
Continue reading...Guru of “drill here, drill now”
Thursday, August 14, 2008
8-13-08 by dugan How did the "drill now, drill everywhere" gang persuade Americans that giving U.S. coastline and wilderness to oil companies is an energy policy? Credit goes to a brilliant deceiver who most people have never heard of: former GOP pollster and PR man Frank Luntz. Here’s the memo he wrote for Bush and [...]
Continue reading...Drill or not? Here’s the answer
Thursday, August 7, 2008
8-7-08 by dugan Sometimes comedy is just the right cure. Here’s the last word, from Jon Stewart, on why no one should trust the folks saying we need to "drill now, drill everywhere" in the U.S. for oil.
Continue reading...Corn price drop matches oil’s
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
8-5-08 by dugan Remember all the assertions earlier this year that demand for ethanol was skyrocketing the price of corn and other farm commodities? Oh, and possibly starving the world. OilWatchdog kept arguing that energy prices had at least as much to do with corn, soybean and other prices, partly because of the twinning of [...]
Continue reading...Government’s cracked crystal ball
Thursday, June 26, 2008
06-26-08 by dugan It’s hard to do more than sputter over oil hitting $140 a barrel today, so let’s go for laughs. For instance, the federal Energy Information Administration’s 2008 predictions about oil. The EIA last year firmly predicted that 2008 crude oil prices would average $58 a barrel. Where do they buy these predictions, [...]
Continue reading...The lie of coastal oil drilling
Thursday, June 19, 2008
06-19-08 by dugan It’s easy to understand why President Bush and Sen. John McCain are getting media and public traction from their demand that California, Florida and other coastal states open up their shorelines to oil drilling. After all, more oil means cheaper gas, right? No, wrong. It’s a complete fake, and not just because [...]
Continue reading...Bush wants west’s water
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
06-18-08 What I heard today in President Bush’s push to extract Western shale oil was this: Let’s subsidize Big Oil to turn Southern California into a desert and huge swaths of the West into polluted, rubbled, waterless wasteland. A pitch once confined to Internet investment schemes got a White House imprint. so did offshore drilling [...]
Continue reading...Oil’s ‘Alternative Energy’ Scam
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
4-22-08 by dugan When I look at oil company profit reports–which will soon reveal truly rabid profit increases in the 1st quarter of 2008–I just ignore the line on "alternative energy" spending. That’s because it is often the opposite of renewable energy. Mother Jones magazine’s latest issue has the perfect description of why: "Across the [...]
Continue reading...The ‘Killer Biofuels’ Claque
Friday, April 18, 2008
4-18-08 by dugan Global warming denial is a nearly lost cause, so its proponents have a new issue: killer biofuels. Their simple, effective message is that biofuels–all of them–are the cause of rising food costs. Thus biofuels are killing babies in the Third World. It’s cynical, brilliant and mostly untrue. But it certainly deflects blame from spiraling [...]
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