Holding Big Oil Accountable
For the last decade and a half, Consumer Watchdog has chronicled through a series of reports how California’s oil companies have cut back on production to drive up prices at critical moments and have manipulated gasoline prices in the state.
Check out our key reports on California’s oil industry below:
Presentation to the California Energy Commission - Oil Refiners Cutting Production to Reduce Supply
November 29, 2016
Press Release: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/newsrelease/consumer-watchdog-testifies-refiners-continue-get-rich-inflated-gasoline-prices-cutting-
Brown's Dirty Hands
By Liza Tucker
August, 2016
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/dirtyhands
Presentation to the California Energy Commission - Supply and Demand No Longer Exists in the California Gasoline Market
August 17, 2016
Press Release: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/newsrelease/gasoline-trading-company-vitol-blames-exxonmobil-misinformation-california-2015-gas-pric
Full Presentation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJV_fuk9XhY
Presentation to the California Energy Commission - Consumer Watchdog Calls for Transparency in Gasoline Markets to Avert Price Spikes
April 22, 2016
Press Release: http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/newsrelease/consumer-watchdog-calls-sunlight-big-oil-refiners-avert-ca-gasoline-price-spikes-state-e
Consumer Watchdog Presentation: http://www.energy.ca.gov/assessments/petroleum_market/2016-04-22/presentations/Consumer_Watchdog_April_PMAC_Presentation.pdf
Against the Tide: How Missing Tankers Pumped Up Gas Prices and Refiner Profits
By Cody Rosenfield
February 8, 2016
https://consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2017-09/reportagainstthetide.pdf
Oil Slicked: How Refiners Spend Millions to Protect Billions in Record Profits.
By Jamie Court, Cody Rosenfield and Liza Tucker
November 19, 2015
https://consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/Oil_Slicked.pdf
Golden State Gouge: The Summer of Record Refining Profits
August 5, 2015
https://consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/the_golden_state_gouge.pdf
Wholesale Gasoline Market Analysis
June 30, 2015
http://consumerwatchdog.org/resources/wholesalegasolinemanipulationanalysis.pdf
Refining Profits: How Californians Get Fleeced at the Pump
May 5, 2015
https://consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/refining_profits.pdf
Price Spiked: How Oil Refiners Gouge Californians on Their Gasoline
March 24, 2015
https://consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2017-09/PriceSpiked.pdf
Pump Jacking California’s Climate Protection
December 15, 2014
Keystone XL: Oil Industry Cash Machine
July 16, 2013
https://consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/Keystone_XL.pdf
Valero Energy and Its California Profit Pipeline
October 12, 2010
The Road to Cleaner & Cheaper
May 19, 2009
https://consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/THE_ROAD_TO_CLEANER_%26_CHEAPER.pdf
The Causes and Effects of the Record Breaking Price of Diesel
July 1, 2008
The “Katrina Syndrome”
July 23, 2007
https://consumerwatchdog.org/sites/default/files/2018-11/KatrinaSyndrome.pdf
The Changing Relationship Between the Price of Crude Oil and the Price At the Pump
May 3, 2007
