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Holding Big Oil Accountable

Oil Watchdog is a blog and resource library about the profiteering, power, and unscrupulous practices of the oil industry.

At our affiliated site OilWatchdog.org our bloggers are looking for the schemes the industry employs to rip-off its customers, harm the environment and hide their misdeeds. We report on connections between the oil companies and their so-called “independent” spokespeople and groups that always promote an industry view. We track the money oil companies move around to maintain political power and just about anything else that helps reveal the greed and arrogance of this industry.

We rely on data, experts and instinct. But our project is improved and expanded by our readers, who comment on blogs and articles, other bloggers and reporters who watch this industry from the outside and courageous whistleblowers who know the industry from the inside.

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:

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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Oil Watchdog: Exxon Hit For Its Secrecy

Oil giant ExxonMobil is as secretive as its competitors in Russia and China, according to a report just released by Transparency International, a global organization fighting corruption.

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