Cheaper, Cleaner Energy

To keep our society running, we need to fight for affordable electricity and gasoline. To keep our planet running, we need to aggressively pursue alternative fuels. Cheap and clean energy is essential and Consumer Watchdog keeps an eye on the power companies that too often stand in the way.

Our research has exposed price gouging by oil companies, market manipulation by energy traders and the failure of electricity deregulation. Consumer Watchdog's blog OilWatchdog is a leading oil industry critic and aggregator of smoking guns, economic analyses and alternative fuels advocacy. We also keep a close eye on the money spent for political influence by the oil industry.

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Recent Articles:

Chevron Commits to 'Alt' Energy

By George Avalos, CONTRA COSTA TIMES (CA)
May 7, 2008

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Taxing Oil Profits: Proceed With Caution

By Steve Hargreaves, CNNMONEY.COM
May 6, 2008

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Tired of Paying Through the Nose, Americans Try Praying at the Pump

By Karin Zeitvogel, AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE
May 5, 2008

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Gas Prices Level Off -- For Today

By Dale Kasler, SACRAMENTO BEE
May 3, 2008

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Chevron's Profit Tops $5 Billion

Ronald D. White, LOS ANGELES TIMES
May 3, 2008

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Recent Posts in Cheaper, Cleaner Energy:

Before 'Big Oil U' Was 'Big Pharma U'

Consumer Watchdog has protested strings-attached grants from Big Oil to universities, but the oil companies are just following the path of Big Pharma. Here, from the Century Foundation's Maggie Mahar and Niko Karvounis, is a concise history of legislation that opened the classroom door to drug companies--and even let cosmetic giant Shiseido control research agendas at Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital.  

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Oil Watchdog: Exxon Is Holdout on MTBE

A national lawsuit over water pollution from a gasoline additive was more than half-settled yesterday when four of the five major oil comanies agreed to pay $423 million in cleanup and other costs. Chevron, Shell, BP, Conoco and several smaller companies did what's right, and will escape years more of litigation costs. Exxon, which can no doubt afford to litigate until the world ends, was the only major holdout.

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Oil Watchdog: Goldman Sachs' Self-Serving Prediction

Oil prices are in Alice in Wonderland territory. Today's new futures-market record, above $122 a barrel, occurred despite a substantial rise in both crude oil stocks and gasoline stocks in the U.S., as reported by the federal Energy Information Administration. In any vaguely normal market, both of those events would drive down oil prices. But today, the speculators just shrugged, said "what the heck," and kept the upward spike going. Pardon my suspicious mind, but I connect it to "predictions" of $150 or even $200 a barrel crude oil.

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Oil Watchdog: Chevron's Record 1st Qtr Profit

Chevron rides soaring crude oil prices to record 1st qtr. profit of $5.17 billion, as consumers feel squeeze at pump and White House does nothing.

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Oil Watchdog: Rockefellers: Change Exxon

 What's known as America's First Family of Oil, the Rockefellers, wants Exxon Mobil, the oil giant descended from John D. Rockefeller's  Standard Oil, to change it is ways. They're worried the company doesn't care enough about the environment or developing alternative energy.

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