Photo: Nate Steiner

California-based consumer advocacy group The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights is mad as hell, and they aren’t going to take it any more.  They’ve put up a blog, Oil Watchdog, to help us motorists stay on top of oil issues that affect how much we bleed - er, pay - at the pump.

Starting off with a bang, the group posted a letter it sent to to David O’Reilly, Chevron Corp.’s chief executive, requesting that the company remove what the group describes as “contract barriers that prevent gasoline dealers from selling renewable motor fuels.” The group accuses the giant oil company of preventing the sale of renewable fuels at its gas stations “even as it boasts of investing in a new biodiesel plant.”