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Consumer Alert Warns About 11th Hour CA Electricity Deregulation Scheme That Will Raise Rates and Increase Coal Power

Consumer Alert Warns About 11th Hour CA Electricity Deregulation Scheme That Will Raise Rates and Increase Coal Power

Smiling For Nalleli, Ban on Community Oil Drilling Takes Effect

Smiling For Nalleli, Ban on Community Oil Drilling Takes Effect

CA Oversight Report Shows Decade of Gasoline Price Gouging

CA Oversight Report Shows Decade of Gasoline Price Gouging

Energy

Taxing Oil Profits: Proceed With Caution

Taxing Oil Profits: Proceed With Caution

May 6, 2008  ·  Consumer Watchdog
<p> <strong>Politicians are dying to get at more of Big Oil's billions, but analysts are torn about what that will do to prices or future energy sources.</strong><br/> <br/> NEW YORK, NY -- Politicians are eyeing oil profits like a fat...</p>
Gas Prices Level Off — For Today

Gas Prices Level Off — For Today

May 3, 2008  ·  Consumer Watchdog
<p> <strong>Stability could be fleeting, analyst says, as California average pauses at $3.92.</strong><br/> <br/> The surge in gasoline prices has stopped for now. The grumbling hasn't.<br/> <br/> As the average price in California...</p>
Chevron’s Profit Tops $5 Billion

Chevron’s Profit Tops $5 Billion

May 3, 2008  ·  Consumer Watchdog
<strong>The oil company beats analysts' forecasts despite an 84% drop in earnings from refining and gasoline retailing.</strong><br/> <br/> Record energy prices gave Chevron Corp., the nation's second-largest oil company, a bigger-than-expected...
Chevron Notches Record First-Quarter Profit

Chevron Notches Record First-Quarter Profit

May 3, 2008  ·  Consumer Watchdog
<br/> <div class="sidebar"> <div id="objecthumbs"> <div id="contentobjects"> <a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2008/05/03/BUTL10FVD9.DTL&o=0&type=printable"><img src="http://imgs.sfgate.com/c/pictures/2008/05/03_t/bu_earns_chevron_cap_t.gif" border="0" alt="Gas customers reportedly did little to boost Chevron's pr..." vspace="1"/></a>...</div> </div> </div>
Heated Fuel Price Rhetoric

Heated Fuel Price Rhetoric

April 30, 2008  ·  Consumer Watchdog
<p> Rising fuel prices are rattling a lot of people who want action, fast.<br/> <br/> Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) has sent a letter to the Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), asking for an investigation into the recent spike in...</p>
Average Gas Price Tops $4 in San Francisco

Average Gas Price Tops $4 in San Francisco

April 28, 2008  ·  Consumer Watchdog
<strong>Motorists express dismay but not surprise at the pump. L.A. is not far behind at $3.878 a gallon.</strong><br/> <br/> SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- Finally, it happened.<br/> <br/> After days of inching upward, gasoline on Sunday crossed the...
Man Asks God for Cheaper Gas

Man Asks God for Cheaper Gas

April 28, 2008  ·  Consumer Watchdog
OAKLAND, CA -- A man of faith from the District of Columbia area is going over the heads of government and industry leaders by asking God for cheaper gas.<br/> <br/> Rocky Twyman, a public relations consultant and church choir director from the...