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The All-Important Doorman
The All-Important Doorman Picture this: A tribal leader from a distant country visits the US. He’s brought to a large apartment building in New York City. When he gets out of the car, he looks up at the great building and is quite impressed. A uniformed doorman exits the foyer and comes out on the […]
Big Oil Has Flourished, Despite Biden’s Best Efforts, And Will Back Trump In 2024
Big Oil Has Flourished, Despite Biden’s Best Efforts, And Will Back Trump In 2024 “It’s death by 1,000 cuts. It’s the worst presidency with regard to energy policy I’ve ever seen — and I’ve been involved in energy for 40 years, my entire career.” Those were the words of Steve Pruett, chief executive of Elevation Resources, to Financial […]
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 […]
Biden Wants EVs so Badly That He Will Quadruple Tariffs on Them
Biden Wants EVs so Badly That He Will Quadruple Tariffs on Them Astute readers will immediately notice the title of this post makes no sense. It’s not supposed to. But it is exactly what President Biden is doing. Biden to Quadruple Tariffs on Chinese EVs Counter to the idea that quick EV adoption is needed […]
The Great Ukraine Robbery is Not Over Yet
The Great Ukraine Robbery is Not Over Yet The ink was barely dry on President Biden’s signature transferring another $61 billion to the black hole called Ukraine, when the mainstream media broke the news that this was not the parting shot in a failed US policy. The elites have no intention of shutting down this […]
What Are the Odds the Fed Hikes Interest Rates to 8 Percent?
What Are the Odds the Fed Hikes Interest Rates to 8 Percent? I ask the question because the number came up in a recent JP Morgan publication. 8 Percent “Prediction” or “Possibility”? This headline by TFTC caught my eye: JP Morgan Predicts Crushing 8% Interest Rate Spike JP Morgan forecasts interest rates rising to 8%, potentially […]
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 […]
EPA underestimates methane emissions from landfills and urban areas, researchers find
EPA underestimates methane emissions from landfills and urban areas, researchers find Methane emissions for 2019 from 70 individual landfills that report methane emissions of 2.5 Gg a−1 or more to the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) for 2019 and for which the TROPOMI inversion provides site-specific information. Credit: Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2024). DOI: 10.5194/acp-24-5069-2024 The Environmental Protection Agency […]
A True Bipartisan Scandal
A True Bipartisan Scandal How out of control is our surveillance state? Read about a dubious investigation that swept up communications of some of the country’s most senior highest officials, and their families, in secret Last October, current and former congressional staffers from both parties began receiving curious notices. They came from Google, which obeyed […]
The Oil and Energy Macro
The Oil and Energy Macro U.S. oil reserves reached a new record in 2022. Crude oil and condensate proved reserves exceed 48 billion barrels (Figure 1). Reserves declined from 1969 to 2006 then increased with additions from the deepwater Gulf of Mexico and Tight Oil. Tight oil accounted for 27 billion barrels (56% of total) […]
David Stockman on the $1.3 Trillion Elephant In The Room
David Stockman on the $1.3 Trillion Elephant In The Room These people have to be stopped! We are talking about the nation’s unhinged monetary politburo domiciled in the Eccles Building, of course. It is bad enough that their relentless inflation of financial assets has showered the 1% with untold trillions of windfall gains, but their […]
The Permian Shrugs Off Below-Zero Natural Gas Prices in Texas
The Permian Shrugs Off Below-Zero Natural Gas Prices in Texas Natural gas prices at the Waha hub slumped to a negative value of -$2.00 per MMBtu in April. Major pipeline operators in the Permian basin haven’t yet seen any effect of the negative gas prices at the Waha hub in West Texas on activity. In […]
The Immense Hunger: US-Israel Joint Obsession to Obliterate the World
The Immense Hunger: US-Israel Joint Obsession to Obliterate the World Like all living creatures, people need to eat to live. Some people, eaten from within by a demonic force, try to deny others this basic sustenance. All across the world people are starving because the powerful and wealthy create economic and political conditions that allow […]
