Inside View - Big oil industry: the rise and fall of a commodity.

Pensions Week;  December 4, 2006 ;     700+ words ......From their beginnings in the 1850s, the 'big oil' companies dominated the industry across...names may have changed over time, but big oil remains strong today. Life for these companies...Access to new reserves was easy because big oil had money and technological know how...

Big Oil causes high prices

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  April 5, 2008 ;     83 words ......aren't any more gas wars because Big Government allowed Big Oil to get bigger by buying out the...oil companies. It also allowed Big Oil companies to conglomerate, eliminating...who refuse to be bought out by Big Oil companies. Antitrust laws would...

Big Oil's Roster of Shame

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  August 15, 2008 ;     276 words ......House Republicans has been busy doing Big Oil's bidding since Congress adjourned for...court on the House floor - proclaiming Big Oil's lies to a rotating group of captive...to our current energy crisis? Because Big Oil is lining their pockets. This group of...

'Big Oil' actually a big boon to Americans.(Commentary/Editorial)

Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  August 15, 2008 ;     157 words ......Mark Udall's main attack on Bob Schaffer is that he is in the pocket of Big Oil and has received campaign donations from Big Oil. ExxonMobil,the poster child of Big Oil, has itself paid more than $64 billion in income taxes over the past several...

The costs of waiting for Big Oil to do the right thing

The Boston Globe;  July 2, 2008 ;     683 words ......business to become more socially responsible, Big Oil prides itself in being an island of bullheadedness...rewards of success go to shareholders. But Big Oil has virtually ignored an equally important...of the United States - who have granted Big Oil the right to extract the nation's ...

Little investment from Big Oil

Concord Monitor;  July 31, 2008 ;     242 words ......and other public lands to drilling by Big Oil and blames those opponents of expanded...technology or alternative energy research. Big Oil seems determined to maximize its profits...capital improvements. In the past 25 years, Big Oil has closed more than half its U.S. refineries...

Less Largess for Big Oil

The Washington Post;  February 29, 2008 ;     122 words ......Representatives for voting to end tax breaks for Big Oil -- an industry whose profits have increased...taxpaying Americans [news story, Feb. 28]. Big Oil often explains its increasing profits...prices. If that were true, the profits of Big Oil would show only marginal growth, but ...

Big Government needs villain - and it's Big Oil

Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  March 9, 2006 ;     650 words ......politicians need villains, so that the pols can play hero. Big Oil is a favorite villain and has been for decades. There is...congressional committee, where politicians can wax indignant at Big Oil's profits. It so happens that Big Government takes more money in taxes out of a gallon ...

Big Oil' Is A Sham Villain

Intelligencer Journal Lancaster, PA;  May 13, 2008 ;     312 words ......absolutely off the mark. It is easy to blame big oil for our current gas prices, but it is...Everyone talks about the record profits that big oil have generated, but no one talks about...to mention the almost $30 billion that big oil has paid in taxes so far this year, either...

The Dallas Morning News Cheryl Hall column: Big Oil draws a big crush of...

Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX);  May 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Hall May 3--Last week, I pointed out that Big Oil is really owned by us little folks. Anyone...intelligent and incisive comments about Big Oil I have ever read in The Dallas Morning...on who benefits from the profits of the Big Oil companies. There was one unsympathetic...

Bush: 'For Big Oil', Instead of 'For the People'

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  June 18, 2008 ;     380 words ......production might as well have come straight out of Big Oil's mouth. In an effort to bolster Big Oil's latest round of fuel mongering, President...of the American public. As gas prices climb, Big Oil gets richer. In 2007, the oil industry recorded...

OPEN COLUMN ; Stop blaming Big Oil; let them do their job

Columbia Daily Tribune;  August 17, 2008 ;     150 words ......controlled Congress pin much of our economic woes on Big Oil. Just what is the definition of Big Oil? Maybe it is the hard-working folks with good...lawyers and our Congress. Could it be that Big Oil is just like Big Electric, Big Telephone and...

Tired of lame excuses from 'Big Oil' companies

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  September 5, 2003 ;     143 words ...How stupid does "Big Oil" think we, the American people, are? Just...lot higher in the areas away from here. Big Oil used two "lame-duck" excuses for the increases -- or should I say gouging. Big Oil blamed it on the blackout and the ruptured...

Big Oil's stranglehold must be broken

Oakland Tribune;  April 10, 2006 ;     481 words ......results in exponential profit increases for Big Oil. This is so for two basic reasons. On the one hand, Big Oil is an economic oligopoly -- it has no viable...could be accomplished by nationalization of Big Oil or by the U.S. government's own limited...

DCCC: The More Thelma Drake Fills Up From Big Oil, the More Virginians Pay...

Targeted News Service;  July 2, 2008 ;     167 words ......VA-02) has watched her campaign cash from Big Oil steadily grow, as can be seen in a chart...Committee. "Thelma Drake's connection to Big Oil is clear - as she gets more money for her campaign from her Big Oil friends, Virginians pay more at the pump...