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Fossil Fuel Energy

  • Blogs

    November 24, 2009

    City Says It's Serious About Cleaning Up One Beleaguered NW Dallas Intersection

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 30, 2009

    Legally Blonde Guilty of Contempt of Audience; FIT Fuels Up Under a Texaco Canopy

    View Larger MapLast week, council member Ann Margolin told a room full of Northwest Dallas residents that the city was going to start cracking down on crime at and around the intersection of Royal Lane and Dennis Road, where day-laborers while away the daylight hours in front of a convenience store. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 3, 2009

    In England, Outrage Over ExxonMobil's Continued Ties to Climate-Change Skeptics

    Beginning in 2006, 'round the time Rex Tillerson replaced Lee Raymond as CEO of Irving-based ExxonMobil, the company said it would cut funding to public-policy groups whose policy it was to deny in public the existence of climate change and the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Last year, mat ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 12, 2009

    What the Frack?

    This morning's Wall Street Journal investigates the cause of the 18 earthquakes that have rattled the Dallas-Fort Worth area since 2008 -- from just east of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport down to Cleburne most recently -- and concludes, well, ya know, not really sure. Because on the one han ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    Chewing the Fat: Spilling The Bills

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 16, 2008

    Feeling Gassy!

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2008

    Shale.tv Shelved

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2008

    Going Dow, Dow, Down: Localizing the Stock Market Plunge

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008

    All Shale Tracy Rowlett!

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 18, 2008

    Ever Been to the "Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX Metropolitan Division"?

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 11, 2008

    Airline Execs Now Have Common Enemy: Goddamned Oil Speculators!

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 10, 2008

    Tracy Rowlett on Selling the Shale: "Chesapeake is Just the Sponsor."

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2008

    In the Hunt: Fort Worth-Based XTO Buys History For $4 Billion

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 28, 2008

    Shareholders' Proposals Run Out of Gas at Exxon Shindig at Meyerson

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2008

    Before Tomorrow's Shareholder Showdown, Exxon Severs Some Ties

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2008

    Protests Are a Gas, Gas, Gas

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 30, 2008

    Rockefeller Heirs Demand Exxon Look to the Future

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 2, 2008

    WFAA: To Catch a Peabody

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2008

    A Little Funk and Folk With Your "Bush Lied" Chants This Afternoon

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2008

    What's It Feel Like to Pocket $40 Billion In a Year? Dunno. Ask ExxonMobil.

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2008

    Two Years Later, the Book (or Chapter, Really) on That ExxonMobil Protest

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2007

    Ray Hunt: Elevating Tensions Since 1974

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 18, 2007

    Shanghai 5 to Get Political at the Space

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2007

    Plaza of the Unamerican, Anyone?

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 28, 2007

    What Pickens is Pickin'

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 23, 2007

    Is That Gas or Indigestion at Exxon?

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2007

    TXU, The Buyout and the Power of "Greenmail"

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 25, 2006

    Spare Climate Change

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 8, 2006

    High Cost of Lower Prices

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2006

    ExxonMobil: The Company You Hate to Love to Hate

    You probably remember how last summer's painful gas prices set off a ripple effect, jacking the cost of everything else, including your groceries. Now that gas prices have crashed back to a mere inflated-enough-to-fatten-Exxon-execs-and-their-political-friends level, you're probably still waiting f ... More >>

  • News

    August 3, 2006

    Dim bulbs

    This little light of Buzz's, we're gonna let it shine

  • Blogs

    May 31, 2006

    Gassed Up and Ready to Protest

    This little light of Buzz's, we're gonna let it shine

  • Blogs

    May 8, 2006

    Net Gain or Net Loss?

    This little light of Buzz's, we're gonna let it shine

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2006

    Damn Commies

    This little light of Buzz's, we're gonna let it shine

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2006

    Syriana II: Bee County

    This little light of Buzz's, we're gonna let it shine

  • Blogs

    April 12, 2006

    That's a Gas

    This little light of Buzz's, we're gonna let it shine

  • News

    October 7, 2004

    Letters

    This little light of Buzz's, we're gonna let it shine

  • News

    September 9, 2004

    The Right's Stuff

    A Texas-based band of conservative warriors tackles the left on its own turf--the street

  • Music

    July 15, 2004

    Lauren Fine

    Paper Airports (BPL Records)

  • Best of Dallas

    September 25, 2003

    Best Pit Stop

    Lakewood Mobil

  • News

    January 16, 2003

    Red Scare

    Dallas County is setting up a surveillance system a Commie would love

  • Best of Dallas

    September 26, 2002

    Best Fried Chicken

    Bubba's Cooks Country

  • News

    April 18, 2002

    Bill Due

    Why did the DMN kill a story about political favoritism? Guess right and win!

  • News

    October 26, 2000

    Pumped Out

    Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed

  • Best of Dallas

    September 21, 2000

    Best Political Gaffe

    City council members wade into deep doo-doo

  • News

    June 8, 2000

    Whizzing inside the tent

    ExxonMobil shareholders use their stock to push a corporate giant toward change

  • News

    April 27, 2000

    The shallow end

    Personal vendettas drain Dallas' wading pools for poor kids

  • News

    May 15, 1997

    A Lot of Gas

    Wildcatter Sanford Dvorin thinks he's hit the jackpot in quaint Coppell. But skeptics say no one's ever made money drilling for natural gas in Dallas County, and no one ever will.

  • News

    October 10, 1996

    Don't cry for me, Amarillo

    T. Boone Pickens Jr. has lost millions, been booted out of his own company, and his wife wants a divorce. Miriam Rozen chronicles the downward spiral of the once-fearsome Learjet Cowboy.

  • News

    July 11, 1996

    The power of the picket

    It doesn't pay to cross Daisy Joe

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