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Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations
Your Tax Dollars At Work: In Two Years, $7.5 Billion Has Produced Just 7 EV Charging Stations When people gripe about paying taxes and the government being a poor the absolute worst possible capital allocation, this is what they are talking about: $7.5 billion in investments for electric vehicles has – in two years – produced just 7 charging stations across four […]
Bidenomics At Work: Ford Slashing Battery Orders As Losses Per EV Approach $100,000
Bidenomics At Work: Ford Slashing Battery Orders As Losses Per EV Approach $100,000 Ford is cutting battery orders in yet another sign that the EV market, despite a constant tailwind from the U.S. taxpayer, is starting to slow. The company is cutting the orders to curb electric-vehicle losses as it scales back its EV strategy in […]
The World’s Largest Floating Solar Farm Wrecked by a Storm Just Before Launch
The World’s Largest Floating Solar Farm Wrecked by a Storm Just Before Launch h/t Dr. Willie Soon; Who could have predicted acres of fragile floating structures would be vulnerable to bad weather? Madhya Pradesh: Summer Storm Damages World’s Largest Floating Solar Plant at Omkareshwar Dam (Watch Video) Indore: A summer storm on Tuesday damaged a […]
Costa Rica to ration electricity as drought bites
Costa Rica to ration electricity as drought bites San José (AFP) – Costa Rica has become the latest Latin American country to introduce rationing due to drought, announcing Thursday it will limit access to electricity for which it relies heavily on hydro-generation. Costa Rica will ration electricity as water required for generation runs low © Ezequiel BECERRA […]
Texas Spot Power Prices Jump Almost 100-Fold on Tight Supply
Texas Spot Power Prices Jump Almost 100-Fold on Tight Supply (Bloomberg) — Texas electricity prices soared almost 100-fold as a high number of power-plant outages raised concerns of a potential evening shortfall. Spot prices at the North Hub, which includes Dallas, jumped to more than $3,000 a megawatt-hour just before 7 p.m. local time, versus […]
Is China’s Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back?
Is China’s Oil Demand Set For A Major Bounce Back? China’s extraordinary economic expansion almost singlehandedly drove a supercycle in key commodities since the mid-90s. This robust performance across several major sectors in China’s economy is in sharp contrast to the growth drivers seen last year. China continues to buy oil from Russia and Iran […]
Asia Embraces Coal as the U.S. Rejects It
Asia Embraces Coal as the U.S. Rejects It Vietnam and other Asian countries are on a coal spree! Given the dynamics of energy use in the rapidly developing industrial sector there, it is no surprise that these nations have backpedaled on big promises made at international climate conferences to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels. […]
Visualizing The Copper Investment Opportunity In One Chart
Visualizing The Copper Investment Opportunity In One Chart Copper is essential for clean energy applications such as solar panels, wind turbines, and electric vehicles (EVs), as well as for expanding electrical grids. The surge in demand for the metal, driven by the growing adoption of these technologies, presents a unique investment opportunity for early investors […]
Meet The Company Helping Restart The Nuclear Revolution In The U.S.
Meet The Company Helping Restart The Nuclear Revolution In The U.S. A company called Holtec has become the voice for restarting the nuclear power revolution in the U.S. As it becomes clear that the nation’s needs for power are far underserved, and will certainly be in the future with the adoption of AI, one company, […]
EV euphoria is dead. Automakers are scaling back or delaying their electric vehicle plans
EV euphoria is dead. Automakers are scaling back or delaying their electric vehicle plans Automakers from Ford Motor and General Motors to Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, Jaguar Land Rover and Aston Martin are scaling back or delaying their electric vehicle plans. Though consumer demand for EVs hasn’t shown up in the way executives had expected, sales of […]
An Alarming Trend Is Developing In US Shale Oil Production
An Alarming Trend Is Developing In US Shale Oil Production Summary U.S. oil production is currently around ~13 million b/d. But despite the overall meaningful decrease in Lower 48 gas production, associated gas production remains strong. In addition, EIA’s reported weekly NGL production continues to outpace crude production growth. The market still falsely believes that […]
Ford’s $120,000 Loss Per Vehicle Shows California EV Goals Are Impossible
Ford’s $120,000 Loss Per Vehicle Shows California EV Goals Are Impossible So much for California’s mandate that “all new passenger cars, trucks, and SUVs sold in California will be zero-emission vehicles by 2035,” according to the California Air Resources Board. It imposed the mandate at the request of Gov. Gavin Newsom. On April 24, Ford reported […]
What Exactly is Peak Oil?
What Exactly is Peak Oil? PHOTO: Paul M. Walsh/AP/SHUTTERSTOCK I could go on and on about acceptance for probably weeks if not months, but today’s article isn’t about acceptance. Today’s article is about energy and resource decline, one of the symptom predicaments of ecological overshoot and what is commonly referred to as Peak Oil. I have mentioned both […]
From Zero to Hero… The Incredible Story of American LNG, Personified
From Zero to Hero… The Incredible Story of American LNG, Personified Mezzaluna, Mr. Souki and the Journey to the Top “If you keep digging, digging, digging, you find something.” ~ Charif Souki O.J. Simpson died last month. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably know that. Well, I guess I sort of have […]
Europe Scraps Net Zero, Biden Should But Won’t, Why?
Europe Scraps Net Zero, Biden Should But Won’t, Why? “Unaffordable climate commitments have two leftist British parties racing to exit stage left.” Europeans Ditch Net Zero The Wall Street Journal reports Europeans Ditch Net Zero, While Biden Clings to It You know you’ve stumbled through the looking glass when European politicians start sounding saner on climate […]
