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Why Is There No National Energy Policy?

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 06.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gas Prices, Clinton Gas Tax, Joseph Stiglitz, Gas Tax, Exxon Mobil, Environment, Environmentalism, Obama Gas Tax, Gas Tax Holiday, McCain Gas Tax, Energy Policy, Politics News

National energy policy? Why bother? A dollar/gallon investment tax on gasoline, the 10% solution and a 10 cents / pound carbon dioxide tax are all we need.

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Why the Exxon Directors Need to Exxit, Fast

Stefan Roberts | Posted 05.29.2008 | Business

Read More: Al Gore Global Warming, Lee Raymond, Exxon Mobil, Environment, Environmentalism, An Inconvenient Truth, Business News

Through all Exxon Mobil's announcements and past public statements about their intentions and hopes, they continue to pursue policies that damage our environment and kill our planet.

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Exxon Chief Beats Back Challenge From Rockefellers

New York Times | Clifford Krauss | Posted 05.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Exxon Shareholders, Exxon Rockefellers, Exxon, Exxon Mobil Rockefellers, Exxon Shareholder Revolt, Exxon Mobil, Business News

Exxon Mobil's chairman and chief executive, Rex W. Tillerson, defeated a shareholder effort on Wednesday to take away one of his jobs at an annual mee...

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Rockefellers, Exxon Mobil Battle Over Future Of Company

New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 05.26.2008 | Business

Read More: Exxon Mobil, Rockefellers, Rockefellers Exxon Mobil, Business News

The Rockefeller family built one of the great American fortunes by supplying the nation with oil. Now history has come full circle: some family member...

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Awash In Profits, Exxon Extracting Every Penny From Its Franchisees

Washington Post | Steven Mufson | Posted 05.24.2008 | Business

Read More: Gas Prices, Exxon, Exxon Mobil, Exxon Profits, Gas Stations, Exxon Franchise, Business News

Every time Sohaila Rezazadeh rings up a sale at her Exxon station on Chain Bridge Road in Oakton, her cash register sends the information to Exxon Mob...

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Oil Execs to Congress: I Drink Your Milkshake

Chris Kelly | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil Prices, Oil Executives, Oil Companies, Bp, Economics, Big Oil, Exxon Mobil, Oil, Polar Bears, Free Market, Shell Oil, Politics News

Supply and demand is one factor in determining price, but another factor used to be called "competition." Again, I'm not an economist, but I'm pretty sure that was supposed to drive prices down.

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Future Will Battle Past at Exxon Mobil Annual Meeting

Clint Wilder | Posted 05.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Exxon Mobil, Green, Renewable Energy, Sustainability, John Rockefeller, Wal-Mart, Dallas, Global Warming, Business News

The Rockefellers haven't suddenly gone soft and hippy-dippy. It's their concern for the future of the Exxon Mobil's bottom line that's fueling their calls for a cleaner, more renewable energy mix.

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media

Read More: Gas Prices, Persian Gulf, Right Wing Media, Oil Sands, Renewable Energy, Neal Boortz, Depleted Uranium, Dick Cheney, Tar Sands, Dan Abrams, Environmental Protection Agency, Solar Tax Credits, Oil Industry, Richard Nixon, Dow Chemical, Guantanamo Torture, Michael Savage, John Ashcroft, Mary Gade, Chevron, Dioxin, Solar Power, Thomas Friedman, Tavis Smiley, John Conyers, Karl Rove, Bp, Rush Limbaugh, Exxon Mobil, Mother Jones, Green Building, Lou Dobbs, Iraq Contractors, Co2, John Yoo, Iraqi Interpreters, Shell Oil, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Whistleblowers, Talk Radio, Kbr, Media Consolidation, Don Siegelman, 60 Minutes, Sean Hannity, Conocophillips, Ducks, Fox News, Clean Technology, Glenn Beck, Bush Approval Rating, Bill O'Reilly, Media News

Hundreds of ducks made a fatal landing in oil and toxic sludge; Republicans block federal aid to wind and solar; the shocking testimony of three whistleblowers on US contractors in Iraq.

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Exxon Mobil Earnings Disappoint -- Pity Poor Exxon

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Federal Gas Tax, Integrated Oil Companies, Oil Reporting, Reuters, Exxon Mobil, Business News

Striking the federal gas tax over the summer is a band-aid. Breaking up the integrated oil companies would be a real beginning toward getting the hegemony of the oilogopoly off our backs.

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Exxon Mobil Profits Soar: Grow 17 Percent

AP | JOHN PORRETTO | Posted 05.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Exxon Mobil, Exxon Mobil Profits, Business News

HOUSTON — Exxon Mobil Corp., the world's largest publicly traded oil company, said Thursday that record crude prices helped its first-quarter pr...

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Unearthed: News of the Week the Mainstream Media Forgot to Report

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Brendan DeMelle | Posted 04.27.2008 | Media

Read More: Katrina Trailers, Salmon, Don Siegelman Case, American Flag Lapel Pin, Military Analysts, Siegelman and Rove, Don Siegelman, Network Military Analysts, Buffalo, Exxon Mobil, Katrina, Pentagon Military Analysts, Yellowstone Buffalo, Global Warming, Obama Flag Lapel, Media News

Alabama Governor Don Siegelman, fresh out of jail, talked to us about his Karl Rove-induced prosecution. He now has clear proof that his 2002 election was stolen by the GOP.

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Oil Chiefs Say High Prices Not Our Fault

AP | H. JOSEF HEBERT | Posted 04.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Gas Prices, Oil Prices, Conocophillips, Edward Markey, Oil Companies, Chevron Corp, Exxon Mobil, Congress, BP America, Big Oil, Shell Oil, Business News

WASHINGTON — Don't blame us, oil industry chiefs told a skeptical Congress. Top executives of the country's five biggest oil companies said Tues...

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Bush's Hypocrisy, OPEC's Arrogance, The Oil Mess We Are Living

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 03.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Dollar, Saudi Arabia, Exxon Mobil, Sam Bodman, Strategic Petrolem Reserve, Department of Energy, Center of Strategic and International Studies, Opec, Nytimes, Chakib Kheli OPEC President, Tillerson, Al Naimi, Aramco, Aramco, Aramco, Business News

The New York Times article informs us that we, and our dollar, are primarily to blame for the current vertiginous oil prices.

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John McCain and Exxon Valdez

David Roberts | Posted 02.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, John McCain, Exxon Mobil, Exxon Valdez, McCain Oil, McCain Exxon Valdez, McCain Environmental Policy, Politics News

Four months after the biggest environmental disaster in U.S. history, McCain voted against requiring double hulled tankers.

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All Hail Exxon

Judy Dugan | Posted 02.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Taxes, Oil, Mark Perry, Exxon, Oil Industry, Exxon Mobil, Politics News

The bottom line in an Investors Business Daily op-ed is that poor people don't pay taxes like Exxon does, and thus Exxon is the better citizen. But it doesn't even prove its point.

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Venezuela Cuts Oil Supply To Exxon

CNNMoney | Posted 02.13.2008 | Business

Read More: Exxon Venezuela, Exxon, Venezuela Oil, Exxon Mobil, Business News

Venezuela's state oil company said Tuesday it has stopped selling crude to Exxon Mobil and has suspended commercial relations with the U.S.-based oil ...

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Chavez Threatens to Halt Oil Sales to US

AP | SANDRA SIERRA | Posted 02.10.2008 | Business

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Venezuela, Exxon Mobil, Petroleos De Venezuela, Oil Sales, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Venezuela Oil, Economic War, Business News

CARACAS, Venezuela — President Hugo Chavez on Sunday threatened to cut off oil sales to the United States in an "economic war" if Exxon Mobil Co...

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Exxon Court Win Freezes $12 Billion In Venezuelan Oil Funds

Reuters | Posted 02.07.2008 | Business

Read More: Oil, Venezuela, Oil Industry, Exxon Lawsuit, Exxon Mobil, Business News

Exxon Mobil Corp won a U.K. court order freezing up to $12 billion of assets belonging to Venezuela's state oil company, according to documents filed ...

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Burned Up and Burned Out by Politics

Rosie O'Donnell | Posted 02.04.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Barack Obama, Exxon Mobil, Politics News

It's still early yet, but so far I find both candidates believable. They are different, but they both seem to have the passion, plans, drive, and intelligence I want in my next president.

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Exxon Posts Record Profits on Oil Prices

AP | JOHN PORRETTO | Posted 02.01.2008 | Business

Read More: Record Oil Prices, Exxon Profits, Oil Prices, Quarterly Profits, Oil, Exxon, Exxon Mobil, Business News

HOUSTON — Exxon Mobil Corp. posted the largest annual profit by a U.S. company _ $40.6 billion _ on Friday as the world's biggest publicly trade...

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Ten Smartest CEO Moves Of 2007

Portfolio | Liz Gunnison | Posted 12.27.2007 | Business

The bottom has dropped out of the banking business, brokerages are floundering, home foreclosures are soaring, and the threat of recession looms. What...

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George W. Bush as Marie Antoinette: "Let Them Go Ice Fishing in Maine" (Part Two)

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 12.19.2007 | Business

Read More: Department of Energy Sam Bodman, Maine, Exxon Mobil, State of the Union Address, Opec, President Bush, Democrats, Stategic Petroleum Reserve, Riyadh, Repulicans, Spr, Energy Bill, Kennebunkport, Business News

That the government would not use the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a symbolic gesture to counter OPEC's and the oil industry's rapaciousness borders on the incredulous, or perhaps more accurately, the malign.

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The Other Bush Legacy: Our Crumbling Infrastructure, Booming Oil Company Profits

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 08.31.2007 | Politics

Read More: Rep. Oberstar, 35W Bridge, Congress, Exxon-Mobil, Infrastructure, Opec, George W Bush, Politics News

Here is a problem, tax foe or friend, that needs fixing. And yet President Bush is determined to continue on this course of obstruction if government taxes are the remedy.

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