With less than a month before election day, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed new refinery supply mandates into law, threatening to hike gas prices not just in California, where prices now top $4.68/gallon, but also in swing neighboring states like Arizona and Nevada. The bill, which was introduced in a special session convened by the
Read More...Professor Severin Borenstein from the Energy Institute at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, one of the preeminent experts on California’s energy market, expressed reservations about a budding effort by California Governor Gavin Newsom to implement profit restrictions and penalties on California refiners. Soaring gas prices remain a top concern for many Californians, with state
Read More...UAW Strike and EV Bust Threaten to Kill Our Auto Industry Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: The UAW strike, combined with foolish pursuit of the EV dream and then bust, are strangling our American auto industry. Workers, once again, will pay the price.] In today’s world,
Read More...Biden Is the Man with No Plan As Refineries Close Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Joe Biden is the anti-leader, the scarecrow with no voice, plan or understanding, propped up by special interests as supposed President as we self-destruct.] President Joe Biden continues his pursuit of
Read More...Inslee Takes Washington Down Green Path to A Very Dark Place Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Jay Inslee is a governor right out of the urban dandy catalog who imagines being green is brilliant when, in fact, he is leading Washington State into darkness.] Washington State
Read More...Electricity, Oil and Natural Gas: The Lifeblood of Our World Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: The modern world we take for granted depends, for its life, on electricity, oil and natural gas and ignoring that fact could propel us backward at high speed.] The few wealthy
Read More...Heating Oil Reserves Now Threatened by Biden ... … … [Editor’s Note: Biden is a hopelessly inept man whose ability to muck them things up can, as Obama noted, never be underestimated. Now, he’s messing with heating oil reserves.] The Biden administration is again considering tapping additional emergency energy reserves; this time of heating fuel
Read More...Diesel Prices the Result of Anti-American Energy Policies! ... … … [Editor’s Note: Diesel prices have risen to unaffordable levels for many and are a huge factor in inflation and supply chain issues, all caused by anti-American energy policies!] President Biden is complaining about diesel prices and production and his Administration is looking at banning
Read More...Last week, U.S. Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm sent a letter to refining companies instructing them to limit fuel exports in anticipation of peak hurricane season and elevated domestic demand in the winter months. Sec. Granholm wrote: “Given the historic level of U.S. refined product exports, I again urge you to focus in the near term
Read More...Democrats from oil producing states are pushing back against the Biden administration’s prospective proposal to reinstate the crude oil export ban as a hopeful solution to bring down the price of gasoline for American consumers. The letter, signed by Reps. Henry Cuellar (Tex.), Vicente Gonzalez (Tex.), Sylvia Garcia (Tex.), Lizzie Fletcher (Tex.), Tim Ryan (Ohio)
Read More...Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will meet with energy leaders today to discuss solutions to lower record high gasoline prices. The meeting was prompted after President Biden sent a letter last week to companies where he blundered over refinery capacity and the media began calling out top Democrats over their mixed messages. Ahead of the meeting,
Read More...Biden Making Foreign Energy Dependence Great Again ... … … [Editor’s Note: The Biden administration is committed to making foreign energy dependence great again by attacking oil and gas development on every front and killing refineries.] Chevron CEO Mike Wirth does not expect another oil refinery to be built in the United States ever again, due to
Read More...Biden War on Oil and Gas Yields Record High Energy Prices David Blackmon Editor, Shale Magazine Co-Host, The Oil Patch Radio … … [Editor’s Note: Joe Biden is an angry flailing zombie shoved into a Presidency he can’t handle. His oil and gas policies reflect it, portending apocalypse ahead for consumers.] Seemingly determined to repeat
Read More...Gasoline Prices Double Under Biden Compared to Trump! ... … … [Editor’s Note: Joe Biden is an absolutely complete and total failure and nothing proves it so well as the fact gasoline prices are now double what they were under Trump!] Both oil and gasoline prices increased after each and every time President Biden announced
Read More...refineries Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Mark Mathis rings the alarm over America’s loss of refineries, caused by Renewable Fuel Standards that have yielded yet another “green energy” scam with RINs. Our friend, Mark Mathis, at the Clear Energy Alliance, has produced one of his best videos yet, this time focusing on our
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