To the editor: The Times' editorial board criticizes greedy oil companies for charging Californians the nation’s highest gas prices, alluding to possible market manipulation arising from the industry's opaque manner of doing business. If oil companies really manipulated the market this way, why would they ever allow gas prices to decline? And why wouldn't the companies use those same tricks to raise gas prices throughout the country to California levels? Why is California the only state being...
If you live in California you’ve probably run across ads blaming high gasoline prices on state laws and policies. They’re online, on television, in mailers, on highway billboards and even on gas pumps themselves. One of them asks in big, bold letters “why is our gas expensive” and directs you to a “facts per gallon” website that complains about government gas taxes and fees. It’s all part of a multimillion-dollar ad campaign by the oil industry to deflect attention from its greed and shift blame...
Drivers in Texas are seeing the return of an average of $3.18/gallon of regular unleaded fuel, marking a 14-cent increase compared to last week and a reported 4-cent decrease when compared to this day last year on Thursday, according to the AAA Texas Weekend Gas Watch.
MIDLAND, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- Roseland Oil and Gas is hosting its 10th annual West Texas Oil and Gas Convention & Charity Cook-off, on Wednesday, March 27 at the Midland County Horseshoe Pavilion. Roseland Oil and Gas convention wrote that they are exhibiting "top-notch oil and gas products, services and equipment companies." Roseland Oil and Gas will []
The oil and gas industry has made it clear it plans on sticking around as long as possible
All major oil and gas companies plan fossil fuel expansion incompatible with limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, a new report said Wednesday.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) tells CNN’s Manu Raju that she can’t support presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump and doesn’t rule out leaving the Republican party and becoming an independent.
CNN’s Kristen Holmes reports on former Vice President Mike Pence saying he “cannot in good conscience” endorse presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
(The Center Square) - A jump in crude oil costs and increased travel demand are behind the 11-cent hike in Arkansas gas prices, according to AAA. Arkansas motorists pay an average of $3.18 for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel, up 14 cents from the same time last year. The change in seasons is a factor, according to AAA. "They start to rise with the arrival of spring," said AAA spokesman Andrew Gross about the gas prices. “And the national average...
State Farm plans to non-renew approximately 30,000 property insurance policies and 42,000 commercial apartment policies within the state of California, due partly to fire risk, the company has announced. The insurer stopped writing new homeowners policies in the state last year and subsequently raised rates by an average of 20% for remaining customers. Now, State Farm — California’s largest home insurer — is cutting about 2% of its total California policies to ensure “long-term sustainability”...
The mystery is the latest wrinkle in a drawn-out process to find a solution to the region’s waste problems.
Americans are paying roughly 45 percent more at the pump in high gas prices than before President Joe Biden took office.