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  • Under the title "Big Oil's Banner Year," the Washington-based Center for American Progress on Tuesday, for example, pointed out that the five firms made a fourth-quarter record $137 billion in profits while producing less oil than they did the previous year.

    News - latimes.com 2012

  • Right now, California is about to get a dose of Big Oil's money as some of the biggest polluters in the country see their dream of Proposition 23 go down in flames.

    James Boyce: Big Oil's About to Go Big Money in California James Boyce 2010

  • Prop 23 is Big Oil's attempt to put California's Clean Air Act (AB32) in the deep freeze by tying its implementation to employment statistics.

    Terry Gardner: Please Vote for Clean Air and State Parks Terry Gardner 2010

  • We found that when Californians began to hear the truth about Proposition 23, the polls started to show fading support for Big Oil's attempt to undermine our laws.

    Michael Brune: Twin Attacks on Our Clean Energy Future Michael Brune 2010

  • I outline the mechanisms of all of this in my upcoming book Oil's Endless Bid, but the bottom line is this -- While financial oil may be subject to the whims of big money investors and traders, the gasoline market is far more insulated -- and delivered in New York Harbor where no such physical constraints exist as in Cushing.

    Daniel Dicker: Why Gasoline Costs Are Too Damn High Daniel Dicker 2011

  • Right now, California is about to get a dose of Big Oil's money as some of the biggest polluters in the country -- Valero, Tesoro and Koch Industries -- see their dream of Proposition 23 go down in flames.

    James Boyce: Big Oil's About to Go Big Money in California James Boyce 2010

  • Right now, California is about to get a dose of Big Oil's money as some of the biggest polluters in the country -- Valero, Tesoro and Koch Industries -- see their dream of Proposition 23 go down in flames.

    James Boyce: Big Oil's About to Go Big Money in California James Boyce 2010

  • Right now, California is about to get a dose of Big Oil's money as some of the biggest polluters in the country -- Valero, Tesoro and Koch Industries -- see their dream of Proposition 23 go down in flames.

    James Boyce: Big Oil's About to Go Big Money in California James Boyce 2010

  • Right now, California is about to get a dose of Big Oil's money as some of the biggest polluters in the country see their dream of Proposition 23 go down in flames.

    James Boyce: Big Oil's About to Go Big Money in California James Boyce 2010

  • Right now, California is about to get a dose of Big Oil's money as some of the biggest polluters in the country -- Valero, Tesoro and Koch Industries -- see their dream of Proposition 23 go down in flames.

    James Boyce: Big Oil's About to Go Big Money in California James Boyce 2010

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