Last year, in an effort to lower gas prices for Americans, the Biden administration began to sell crude oil reserves from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). In August of 2021, the administration was releasing 1 million barrels of oil per day. Today, the SPR has been reduced to 347 million barrels – the lowest
Read More...Mountain Valley Pipeline Politicos Talk A Good Game, But… Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: The politicos supporting the Mountain Valley Pipeline are talking a good game but only impeachment of tyrant judges will do if they want to end the nonsense.] On Tuesday, U.S. Senator Joe Manchin
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – July 22, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week: green jobs that cost $7.7 million each to create, the big lie about the
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, July 21, 1923 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. It’s fun and illuminating to look back 100 years ago at what
Read More...To provide a “balanced approach to development,” the Department of Interior released a laundry list of regulations for oil and gas leasing on public lands. However, the proposal is the latest attempt by the Biden administration to sideline critical energy development. In the past year, the administration has repeatedly pushed mixed messages on domestic production
Read More...New York City Headed for Rolling Hochul Blackouts Roger Caiazza (on the subject of) Independent Researcher and Publisher, Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: Roger explains why New York City is headed for rolling Hochul blackouts in an abbreviated version of an article posted in full on his own outstanding blog.] On
Read More...Claims that the leakage rate of natural gas wells and infrastructure make the resource worse for the environment than coal are once again circulating – and using the same debunked methodology as previous research by Food and Water Watch board member and Cornell professor Robert Howarth. In the latest study, RMI is moving the needle
Read More...China, Having Bought Out Biden, Is Playing Climate with Us! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. [Editor’s Note: China can be beaten at everything but, with compromised Joe Biden in charge, the Chinese Communist Party is implying playing stupid climates games with America.] If you do not regularly read JoNova, you are missing
Read More...The United Kingdom is gearing up for a general election, predicated to take place in late 2024. With current polling suggesting the Labour Party is favoured to win, one topic is taking center stage: the energy transition and the future of North Sea oil and natural gas development. Labour sees clear scope to win political
Read More...Wind Turbine Waste: The Toxic Result of “Green Energy” Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Wind turbine waste is becoming a major issue as heavily subsidized industrial wind facilities age out and, like the subsidies, the stuff just doesn’t go away.] Wind turbines, once touted by the
Read More...Lithium Battery Menace: The EV Peril No Wants to Talk About! … … [Editor’s Note: Lithium battery issues are very real and cast a pall over EVs that car buyers seem to understand but EV promoters are loathe to admit are a disincentive.] So far this year, there have been 108 lithium-ion battery fires in
Read More...Last week, 100 trade associations and stakeholders across the fuel and automotive value chain joined together to point out the flaws in the Environmental Protection Agency’s light, medium, and heavy duty tailpipe emission standards. These groups span a diverse range of impacted parties from across the country, including oil and natural gas trade associations, corn
Read More...Our Fuel Cell Future Is Here and It’s Absolutely Beautiful! Jim Willis on NGL Pipelines Editor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Yes, fuel cell technology is real, it’s here and it’s beautiful. It’s natural gas with virtually no emissions and mover and shaker Toby Rice is pushing it.] A fuel cell manufacturer located
Read More...Natural Gas Now Best Picks – July 15, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week: fossil fuel use is growing, renewables require raising the price caps so you pay
Read More...Model T Lessons on Value Tell Us Why EVs Aren’t Selling Bob Tomaine NaturalGasNOW Contributing Writer [Editor’s Note: Bob Tomaine compares the values of Henry Ford’s Model T with todays electric vehicles, which are neither new nor valuable and offer only political correctness.] Few would dispute that while Henry Ford was a mercurial eccentric,
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