Daily Standup Top Stories What’s Next for Oil? Analysts Weigh In After Iran’s Attack April 15, 2024 Mariel Alumit Oil futures were barely moved by Iran’s unprecedented attack on Israel, with traders attributing the lackluster price action to the notion that the strike was well-flagged beforehand, and expectations that the conflict will remain contained in […] Israeli War […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Wind farms are useless, says Duke of Edinburgh April 14, 2024 Stu Turley In a withering assault on the onshore wind turbine industry, the Duke said the farms were “a disgrace”. He also criticised the industry’s reliance on subsidies from electricity customers, claimed wind farms would “never work” […] Investors Bet On Further […]
Continue ReadingWeekly Daily Standup Top Stories Why gas prices in California ‘have gone ballistic’ April 6, 2024 Stu Turley Gas prices have been on the rise nationwide, but for California drivers, they’ve skyrocketed in a short amount of time. The Golden State’s average at the pump surged by $0.23 to $5.27 per gallon on Friday […] Critical impact — […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Big oil and gas firms deepen investment in carbon capture April 10, 2024 Mariel Alumit Carbon capture companies find themselves in an odd position. They exist because of the threat of climate change, a problem created largely by fossil fuels. At the same time, the firms that extract and […] BRICS helping […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Buttigieg rejects critics of EV future: Like people in 2000s saying we could have landlines forever April 3, 2024 Mariel Alumit Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg rejected criticism of the Biden administration’s push for America to embrace a future where electric vehicles (EVs) overtake internal combustion engines, comparing the dynamic to that of landline phone […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Mounting Losses Mean Sweden’s Wind Industry Faces Total Financial Collapse March 29, 2024 Stu Turley Notwithstanding €billions in subsidies, Sweden’s embattled wind industry is on the brink of total financial collapse. The majority of Swedish wind power outfits are underwater, bleeding cash and have no hope of recovery. In the […] DeSantis’ office […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Big Tech’s Latest Obsession Is Finding Enough Energy March 24, 2024 Stu Turley HOUSTON—Every March, thousands of executives take over a downtown hotel here to reach oil and gas deals and haggle over plans to tackle climate change. This year, the dominant theme of the energy industry’s flagship […] Riposte Capital Issues Statement […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Colorado lawmakers adopt cuts, hard choices as state faces $170 million budget shortfall March 27, 2024 Mariel Alumit Between March 15 and March 21, the six members of the Joint Budget Committee — the group of lawmakers in charge of drafting Colorado’s spending plan — found themselves with a problem. With just over […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories California: We Need *Another* $100 Billion for High-Speed Rail – What is a few billion between friends? ‘March 17, 2024 Stu Turley source: Hot Air: Ed Morrissey: Hey, a hundred billion here, a hundred billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about real money. But apparently not real progress. When I first […]
Continue ReadingDaily Standup Top Stories Energy Giants Create Global Synthetic Natural Gas Coalition March 20, 2024 Mariel Alumit Supermajor TotalEnergies, another French energy giant, Engie, and U.S. Sempra Infrastructure have announced plans to create a global coalition to support the production and use of e-natural gas (e-NG), a synthetic natural gas produced from renewable hydrogen […] Deutschland: How Germany Is […]
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