Presidential Climate Envoy: “We Absolutely Don’t” Need More Drilling

The past week has been filled with President Joe Biden blundering over gasoline prices and refinery capacity, the Interior Department once again delaying federal lease sales, and a leading Democratic senator calling for tax increases on energy companies. Lost in the shuffle, John Kerry – the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate – was busy

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As Gasoline Prices Reach Record Highs, Biden Administration Continues to Send Mixed Messages On U.S. Energy Policy

If you’re scratching your chin over U.S. energy policy these days, you aren’t alone. The Biden administration has been sending mixed signals for months over how it will shape the future of domestic energy production and consumption. And nowhere has that been more obvious or confusing than in the administration’s rhetoric and actions on oil

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Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, June 10, 1922!

Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, June 10, 1922! 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. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100

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In New Mexico, An Abundance of Oil Brings an Abundance of Benefits

Oil and natural gas is contributing in a big way to help New Mexicans improve education and other public services for its residents. As ABC News recently reported:  “Government budgets are booming in New Mexico: Teacher salaries are up, residents can go to an in-state college tuition-free, moms will get medical care for a year

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After Killing Keystone XL and Banning Federal Leasing, Biden White House Claims ‘All Tools on the Table’ to Combat Rising Fuel Prices

It’s only been a few short years since the United States demonstrated that it can compete in the global oil market, and in fact, quite literally drilled its way to lower gasoline prices. Yet, with gasoline prices once again on the rise, the Biden administration continues to look beyond U.S. borders to OPEC+ to solve

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EIA: Oil & Natural Gas Will Be In High Demand For Decades To Come

There is an important and continued role for oil and natural gas parallel to the world implementing policies to increase renewable energy consumption, according to the Energy Information Administration’s 2021 International Energy Outlook. In fact, in its latest IEO, the EIA projects oil and natural gas will represent close to 50 percent of primary global

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Biden Bugs Off as China Hugs Oil and Gas Industry

oil and gas … …[Editor’s Note: Incredibly, Joe Biden, our White House occupant, is seemingly determined to wipe out our oil and gas even as China wraps its arms around its own energy industry.] While the U.S. government is doing all it can to keep our nation’s fossil fuels in the ground, China is investing

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Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – July 17, 2021

natural gas now Tom ShepstoneShepstone 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. As usual, emphasis is added. Well, well, well… The first thing you notice is the noise – a strange, low-octave hum growing louder

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Biden Aiming to Make America Energy Dependent Again

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

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Pennsylvania Can and Should Be Northeast Energy Hub

Nonfossil Jim Willis on NGL PipelinesEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Pennsylvania has the Northeast in its hands if it will develop its resources to become the energy hub needed. Pipelines are the key to realizing it all.] Charlie Melançon is a former U.S. Congressman (Democrat) from Louisiana who played an integral role in

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Nonfossil Fuel Propaganda Not Enough to Hide the Truth

Nonfossil Jim Willis on NGL PipelinesEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: EIA data shows nonfossil fuels have not made a significant dent in the complete dominance of fossil fuels energy sources and wind and solar aren’t even close] Is our favorite government agency, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, being corrupted by the Biden White

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Line 3 Pipeline in Minnesota Gets Boost from Biden Administration

The construction of a major pipeline replacement project that would carry crude from Canadian oilfields to a refinery in Wisconsin got a major boost on Thursday from the Biden Administration. According to the New York Times, the administration is siding with a prior permitting decision by the Army Corps of Engineers: “Mr. Biden could still

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Rising Oil Imports Show Risks of Restricting U.S. Production

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

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