Energy Sector

Raging Castro Dude's All-Night Rampage Sends Him Into the Bay -- and Then Jail

Last night got interesting in the Castro District where a very angry man got into a heated argument with his neighbor, sparking a long night of fiery scenes that could easily be played out in a movie. Here's what happened: The man got into a confrontation with his neighbor, which enraged him to t ... More >>

Pica Pica Brings Venezuelan Arepas And Other Staples to the Castro

Hugo Chavez is dead, but Venezuelan food lives on at Pica Pica Maize Kitchen, the second S.F. spot for Carácas cuisine. And it's far less polarizing than inflammatory anti-American rhetoric. In fact, it's delicious. If you can find it, that is. The nondescript Castro location is hidden in plain si ... More >>

"Greedy Lying Bastards": No Thanks for Wrecking the Planet

That Bright Light You Saw Last Night Wasn't a Meteor From Orion, Astronomers Say

If you were outdoors enjoying the unusually warm weather in the Bay Area last night, perhaps you experienced the other surprise: that really loud, bright boom that everyone is talking about (on the Internet, of course). Being that we are all eagerly awaiting the Orionid shower, which is happening th ... More >>

No Glove, No Love

Chevron Opens Another Help Center So Angry Residents Can Collect Money

People have been flooding Chevron with claims after the Aug. 6 refinery fire, enough so that the oil company yesterday opened a second help center where burned residents (not literally) can go demand money. Here's what we know: The new claims center is located at North Richmond Community Heritage Se ... More >>

Not Surprisingly, San Francisco Gas Prices Are Officially the Highest in State

Gas prices across the nation increased 18 cents over the past two weeks, with fuel costs hitting hardest in California, particularly in San Francisco, where prices peaked at $4.06 per gallon. California prices increased 23 cents, which means the average driver is shelling out $3.99 per gallon for re ... More >>

Fire Roaring at Chevron Refinery in Richmond (Update)

Update (9:45 p.m.): BART officials say all stations have been reopened except for Richmond.Update (9:35 p.m.): News outlets are reporting that tons of people are flooding emergency rooms complaining of breathing problems. Update (9:17 p.m.): Chevron officials just held a short news conference, sayin ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

SF Weekly Letters

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

Big Coal's Black Heart

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 >>

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 >>

Art Review: Eileen David: "Recent Paintings"

SF Weekly Letters

Boycott of Alberta Urged By San Francisco's 'Corporate Ethics.' Canadians Pissed, Eh?

That's not maple syrup​Corporate Ethics International, a rabble-rousing San Francisco environmental nonprofit, on Thursday launched a campaign urging a boycott of Alberta in protest of the Canadian province's oil sands petroleum extraction project. The group has erected a billboard in Seattle comp ... More >>

Top Five BP Oil Spill Conspiracies

You see? You see who's benefiting?​The Deep Water Horizon's ongoing ruination of the Gulf Coast is one of the worst accidents in the history of humanity. But wait! Some people -- as some people always do -- aren't willing to concede this was an accident. This was ... a conspiracy! Here's five that ... More >>

Paint Ball -- Time For Annual S.F. Baseball Art Show (And Not a Portrait of a Syringe In Sight)

Arthur MillerNow there's a guy who never imbibed female fertility drugs. Say Hey!Yesterday's revelation that Manny Ramirez -- arguably the greatest right-handed hitter in a generation -- tested positive for artificial testosterone from a female fertility drug was a worldview-altering event. I did no ... More >>

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 >>

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 >>

Green Scheme

The city's master plan for cleaner energy is fraught with risk. And, like it or not, you're already signed up.

Drink for McTaint in '08 on Thursday

Darker My Love Kicks Off California Residency this Week

Bay Area Joins Holy Crude-sade

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

Cooking with Gas

Dallas Cowgirls Suck

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

SF Extension Cord Provided By: Prysmian!

The Mother Lode

Home of the Broke -- USCIS announces fee hike

Leak From the Deep

Nobody knows for sure what kind of oily polutant is seeping into the water at Fisherman's Wharf

Powerful Advice

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

FEMA -- a Four-Letter Word?

The only quiz in the world that will tell you if you're an apologist for the Bush administration's Hurricane Katrina response

Rich Conspiracy

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

Four Best Skyscrapers

Attack of the Self-Serving Pol!

A deft film in which a southland legislator and lazy journalists rewrite history, blame Enron for the energy crisis, and leave Sacramento corruption untouched

Russian Roulette

The Western Pacific gray whale, once thought extinct, clings to life in a remote Siberian sea. Biologists fear their research is serving as cover for massive oil drilling that could wipe out this lost tribe once and for all.

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.

Dog Bites

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

Bow to the King

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

Best Place to Get a Lube Job and Achieve Nirvana

Quality Service Center

Imbalance of Power

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

Dish

Slap Shots

Samples

Letters

Political Power

The proposed Bayview-Hunters Point energy plant sparks a fight