EV Mandates Equal Out-of-Sight, Out-of-Mind Child Labor Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: The cruel reality of EV mandates and other “green energy” schemes is that they depend on out-of-sight, out-of-mind child labor in the poorest parts of the world.] Global cobalt demand soared with the advent
Read More...India, Like China, Ignores Climate Goals and No One Cares? ...… … [Editor’s Note: India and China perfectly illustrate the reality of the climate scam—that it’s about corporatism and power—not the climate or enviros would call foul on both.] Recently, India asked its utilities not to retire their coal plants until 2030 and the country
Read More...... … … Wind and solar projects are facing many uphill battles despite a ton of subsidies and incentives provided to corporatist sponsors of these uneconomical projects. New wind installations dropped 77.5 percent in the third quarter of 2022 versus the same period the year before. New utility-scale solar installations fell about 40 percent in
Read More...Newsom Energy Policies Moving Californians Anywhere Else! Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Gavin Newsom and his politically correct energy policies are exploding prices and leading to an exodus from the Golden State to anywhere else but California.] Despite Newsom’s statewide policy decisions that are driving up costs
Read More...Crude Oil, Not Breezes and Sunshine, Sustains Society Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Crude oil and natural gas are what sustain our civil society as we know it. Breezes and sunshine may be appealing but they don’t come close to what we need.] The transition to
Read More...EV Madness Ignores Truth of Impacts on the Lives of Others Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: EV madness has seemingly taken over the minds of those who brazenly plan our futures for us and it has made them blind to the impacts on the lives of
Read More...Inflation Reduction Act A Bold Raid on American Taxpayers American Energy Alliance …. …. [Editor’s Note: The Inflation Reduction Act delivered by Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and Manchin is pure corporatist highway robber; green grifting on an absolutely grand scale.] Today, President Biden is returning to the White House to sign the Inflation Reduction Act, a
Read More...AmericanEnergy Alliance …. …. [Editor’s Note: The Joe Biden puppeteers and Chinese controllers are clearly aiming to undo American energy independence and, once again, make us dependent on foreign energy.] Last week OPEC+ talks on oil production quotas for member nations stalled and, as a result, oil prices rose. The Biden administration is somewhat concerned
Read More...America’s hard-fought energy superpower status could be faltering after data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed that crude oil imports rose sharply in the past week, while exports fell. EIA’s Weekly Petroleum Status Report said: “U.S. crude oil imports averaged 6.9 million barrels per day last week, up by 197,000 barrels per day
Read More...Just a few weeks after moderate Democrats in the California state legislature stopped legislation that would have phased in a fracking ban, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced his own plan to ban not only fracking, but eventually all oil and natural gas development in the state. This sort of aggressive opposition to safe domestic development
Read More...For the first time in history, the U.S exported more petroleum products to overseas markets than it imported in October, according to the Energy Information Administration’s recently-released “Short-Term Energy Outlook” It represents an historic shift as the United States solidifies its role as an oil and natural gas powerhouse that’s able to provide for its
Read More...U.S. exports of crude oil rose to average 2.9 million barrels per day (Mmbpd) in the first half of 2019, an increase of 966,000 b/d from the first half of 2018, the Energy Information Administration reports. U.S. crude oil exports also set a record-high monthly average in June, at 3.2 Mmbpd, Kallanish Energy learns. Despite
Read More...U.S. commercial crude oil inventories (excluding those in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve) decreased by 6.91 million barrels (Mmbbl) during the week ended Sept. 6, from the previous week, the Energy Information Administration reported. The American Petroleum Institute had U.S. crude inventories down 7.2 Mmbbl in the week ended Sept. 6, to 421.9 Mmbbl, compared with analysts’
Read More...Crude oil prices fell slightly Tuesday, with Brent crude remaining near seven-month lows just below $60 a barrel due to growing trade tensions between China and the U.S., Kallanish Energy reports President Trump is vowing to impose new tariffs on Chinese imports, and China is retaliating by making further moves against U.S. agricultural purchases. The
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Our readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. Lansing Town Board Deals with Looney Lansing Moratorium Our buddy Jim Willis picked up on this crazy story about the
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