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Protecting Against the Next Energy Crisis
To keep our society running, we need affordable electricity and gasoline. FTCR works hard to watch utilities, energy producers and oil companies and exposes manipulation of the electricity and oil markets.
Click here for highlights of our victories over the past year.
Cool Down The Hot Fuel Rip-off
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When the temperature of gasoline rises above 60 degrees, gasoline expands but gasoline pumps don't account for the bigger volume. Consumers receive less energy from a gallon than they should. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri has sponsored a law to require temperature-adjusted pumps, but the oil industry is working hard to prevent its passage.
Send a free fax to your U.S. Senator by clicking here,and ask him or her to support McCaskill's "Fair Fuel" bill!
Oil Watchdog is Launched!
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FTCR has launched its comprehensive new website and blog, OilWatchdog.org. The website includes sections covering each of the Big 5 oil companies and the industry overall, and also posts investigative reports and "smoking-gun" documents. It invites confidential public tips and comments.
Gas Price Conspiracy? You Guessed It.
Think it's strange that gas prices plummeted during the two months leading to election day, then started rising the day after the vote?
So did we. Listen to Jamie Court's Marketplace commentary on how oil companies tried to hedge their bets in November.
TAKE ACTION NOW!
Oil Profiteers Manipulated Election Season Pump Prices
If you noticed gasoline prices dropping last fall, right before the election, it's because the profiteers in the oil industry decided to reduce their profits in order to lower prices at the pump and take outrage over high gas prices off voters' minds. In the annual profit reports of major oil companies released last week, the big oil companies acknowledged refining more gasoline and selling it at lower prices just in time for the election.
Read the LA Times coverage of Chevron's profits and FTCR's news releases about industry manipulation.
Turn the Lights Out on Electricity Deregulation
Electricity is too vital to our economy and public safety to leave in the hands of a few unregulated power firms. Deregulation cost California $71 billion (download FTCR's study), yet politicians in Sacramento and Washington continue the push to expand deregulation.
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