The Intellectual Dishonesty of a “Consumer Watchdog”

I am having an internal debate with myself regarding which aspect Oil Watchdog I find most annoying: Their intellectual dishonesty, their reprehensible tactics, or just their plain old-fashioned stupidity. I can give lots of examples […]

Who’s Watching Oil Watchdog?

NEWS RELEASE November 14, 2007 “Consumer Advocacy” Group Under Investigation Group Charged with Deceptive Journalism and Misrepresentation Santa Monica, CA — Judy Dugan, Research Director for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR), again […]

Where I Go for Comic Relief

I am going to have to start issuing my own press releases. That’s what our good friends at Oil Watchdog – the oil-hating arm of the FTCR, like to do. They write their own press […]

More on Hot Gas Lawsuit

I really love my Site Meter at the bottom of the page. I check it most days, and it gives me a lot of good information about who is linking to the site and where […]

A Case Study in Cluelessness

I saw a familiar name today in a news article, which I will get to in a bit. I was reading an article from the Sacramento Bee that said that gas prices may have bottomed […]

Inventory Management

I have been engaged in an e-mail exchange with a journalist overseas who is writing an article on gasoline pricing in the U.S. I don’t want to give anything away, so I won’t be any […]