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Energy Sector

  • Blogs

    May 21, 2012

    PG&E Pipeline Pressure Surges Are a Real Threat

    PG&E is starting to feel some unwanted pressure over its gas pipelines. The company is being asked to be much more transparent following a federal directive requiring all utilities to maintain and report instances of pressure surges along their gas pipelines. That might be a tall order for ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 15, 2012

    When S.F. Gas Price Skyrocket, Just Blame Iran

    ​As Billy Beane taught us, you probably can't trust your instincts without cold hard statistics to back them up. So for anyone who suspected that gasoline prices might be rising with Icarusian ferver, your intuitions have been vindicated. On Monday AAA released their monthly report on America's f ... More >>

  • News

    November 30, 2011

    SF Weekly Letters

    ​As Billy Beane taught us, you probably can't trust your instincts without cold hard statistics to back them up. So for anyone who suspected that gasoline prices might be rising with Icarusian ferver, your intuitions have been vindicated. On Monday AAA released their monthly report on America's f ... More >>

  • Film

    June 15, 2011

    "The Last Mountain": Documentary Confirms That Coal Mining Is Pretty Crappy

    ​As Billy Beane taught us, you probably can't trust your instincts without cold hard statistics to back them up. So for anyone who suspected that gasoline prices might be rising with Icarusian ferver, your intuitions have been vindicated. On Monday AAA released their monthly report on America's f ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 1, 2011

    Big Coal's Black Heart

    ​As Billy Beane taught us, you probably can't trust your instincts without cold hard statistics to back them up. So for anyone who suspected that gasoline prices might be rising with Icarusian ferver, your intuitions have been vindicated. On Monday AAA released their monthly report on America's f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 19, 2010

    Chevron Punked With 'Yes Men'-Produced Attack Ad

    You think that looks like a real Chevron ad? We agree. ​An apparent Chevron ad campaign decrying the oil giant's years of polluting Third World locales and pledging to change its ways was the spitting image of the real thing. But Scrooge-like changes of heart are only for the movies. The San Ramon ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 13, 2010

    Bay Area Capitalists Outspending Big Oil in Last Stretch of Prop. 23 Battle

    No longer so menacing​So much for the titans of the petroleum industry using their profits to bend voters and politicians to their will. It turns out the out-of-state oil companies behind the campaign to pass Proposition 23 -- the ballot initiative that would suspend California's landmark 2006 law ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 11, 2010

    The War Area

    No longer so menacing​So much for the titans of the petroleum industry using their profits to bend voters and politicians to their will. It turns out the out-of-state oil companies behind the campaign to pass Proposition 23 -- the ballot initiative that would suspend California's landmark 2006 law ... More >>

  • Culture

    July 21, 2010

    Art Review: Eileen David: "Recent Paintings"

    No longer so menacing​So much for the titans of the petroleum industry using their profits to bend voters and politicians to their will. It turns out the out-of-state oil companies behind the campaign to pass Proposition 23 -- the ballot initiative that would suspend California's landmark 2006 law ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 11, 2010

    The Week in Gay - Vaughn Walker returns! Obama serves cocktails! Elton rims Rush!

    Lennon then Limbaugh -- why not?​ OK ok ok ok...Elton John didn't really perform anal-lingus on Rush Limbaugh - technically - but he was paid $1 million to sing at Limbaugh's 4th (FOURTH) wedding last weekend and as far as I'm concerned Elton's breath will always smell like Rush's ass from now o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 25, 2009

    Billionaire Oilman's Traveling Green Energy Road Show Hits S.F.

    Daniel KramerT. Boone PickensAs Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens hits San Francisco tonight in his ongoing tour promoting a curtailing of foreign oil imports and a bolstering of domestic clean energy (in which he is invested to the gills), a long, strange article about Pickens' long, strange trip h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 9, 2009

    Neighborhood Group Sues City over Bayview Hunters Point Biodiesel Plant

    If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2008

    Drink for McTaint in '08 on Thursday

    If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 15, 2008

    Darker My Love Kicks Off California Residency this Week

    If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 28, 2008

    Bay Area Joins Holy Crude-sade

    If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 28, 2008

    Coachella Update: Luxury Tents, Lifetime VIP Passes, Live Webcast

    If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 3, 2008

    The Brute Fires Back

    If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel pla ... More >>

  • Home Entertainment

    January 16, 2008

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 30, 2007

    Dallas Cowgirls Suck

    If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel pla ... More >>

  • Culture

    October 3, 2007

    Josh Keyes' 'Surface Tension' Confronts Pollution at Hang Art

    If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 5, 2007

    SF Extension Cord Provided By: Prysmian!

    If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel pla ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 29, 2007

    The Mother Lode

    If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2007

    Home of the Broke -- USCIS announces fee hike

    If a neighborhood group has its way, it may be a while before you see a scene such as this in San FranciscoA Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood group last week filed suit against the city planning department alleging San Francisco trampled environmental laws when it exempted a proposed biodiesel pla ... More >>

  • News

    May 10, 2006

    Powerful Advice

    Leaders should ignore the temptation to over-regulate energy policy and let competition reign

  • News

    October 20, 2004

    Maid in San Francisco

    Secretly, don't you hope the hospitality multinationals crush those loud, annoying, striking hotel workers? Find out. Take the quiz.

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 19, 2004

    Best Bike Repairs on the Cheap

    Bike Kitchen

  • News

    January 8, 2003

    Nuclear, Dude

    When it comes to terrorism and U.S. atomic power plants, we may as well put Homer Simpson in charge

  • News

    September 11, 2002

    Rich Conspiracy

    Unless there's been a Newsom/Getty/bin Laden/Bush plot of some kind, how could voters support Care Not Cash?

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 15, 2002

    Four Best Skyscrapers

    Unless there's been a Newsom/Getty/bin Laden/Bush plot of some kind, how could voters support Care Not Cash?

  • News

    March 7, 2001

    Dim Bulbs

    Greedy out-of-state profiteers make easy targets, but the real villains of California's energy debacle are the ones under the state capitol dome.

  • News

    November 1, 2000

    Dog Bites

    Renfrew report; Mercury News; Dot-com junkies; Propositions K and L

  • News

    September 6, 2000

    Bow to the King

    Or, why we love Barry Bonds, even when he's a royal Jerk

  • Best of San Francisco

    May 17, 2000

    Best Place to Get a Lube Job and Achieve Nirvana

    Quality Service Center

  • News

    December 31, 1997

    Imbalance of Power

    Competitors say delay in electric deregulation helps PG&E, other utility monopolies

  • Music

    December 6, 1995

    Samples

    Competitors say delay in electric deregulation helps PG&E, other utility monopolies

  • News

    May 17, 1995

    Letters

    Competitors say delay in electric deregulation helps PG&E, other utility monopolies

  • News

    May 10, 1995

    Political Power

    The proposed Bayview-Hunters Point energy plant sparks a fight

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