consumerwatchdog.org BROWN’S DIRTY HANDS 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Governor Jerry Brown paints himself a foe of climate change. But an exhaustive review of company donations, publicly released emails and documents at PUCPapers.org court filings, and media…
Consumer Watchdog analyzed data from the shipping market and state sources to study the impact of gasoline imports and exports on gas prices in California during the first nine months of 2015, when gas prices…
“[I]t is a strategic imperative, it is in Alberta’s interest, in Canada’s interest, that we get access to tidewater... to diversify away from the single continental market and be part of the global market.”
Californians have paid $7.5 billion more than they should have for their gasoline since California’s record gasoline price spike began in February of 2015, according to a Consumer Watchdog analysis of state and federal data.…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the six months since California’s record gasoline price spike began in February, Californians have paid $4.8 billion more than the rest of the country for regular gasoline at the pump, according to…
Consumer Watchdog’s previous report, “Price Spiked”, examined why and how Californians paid substantially more for gasoline than their fellow Americans over the last decade, and the causes of gasoline price spikes in the state. (Read…
Californians have perennially experienced steep gasoline price spikes since 1999 when California’s Attorney General formed a Gasoline Pricing Taskforce that identified market consolidation and limited inventories as causes of prices spikes. Consumer Watchdog’s…
Internal documents obtained from the oil industry’s lobbying arm, the Western States Petroleum Associa8on, show that the companies have made stopping California’s landmark climate change laws their top priority and will stop at nothing to…
We estimated the future total enrollment in small group and individual health plans1 in California by combining the individual market projections from the CalSIM model, produced by UCLA and UC Berkeley, and a conservative estimate…
This report is based on documents obtained via the Public Records Act, information provided by current and former insiders, community members, environmentalists and legislative staffers (some of whom asked to remain anonymous to protect their…
merchant must pay more to win top placement, so winning merchants raise their prices to consumers to cover their added costs. Before the business model could be implemented, Google needed to clear the field of…
Additionally, it appears that Google+ also makes suggestions of people one might want to add to his or her Circle based on the content theysearch for and profile pages they visit as will be documented…
