Mercedes-Benz is no longer talking about “transformation.” It is talking about survival in Germany. WirtschaftsWoche, citing three people familiar with the talks, reports that Mercedes wants about €800 million in German labor-cost savings — roughly $911 million at current rates. Options on the table include longer hours without extra pay, cuts to holiday and Christmas […]
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Europe spent a decade congratulating itself for pushing coal to the edge of the power system. Then it priced itself back onto the fuel it spent political capital destroying. Benchmark Dutch TTF gas prices spiked above €80 per megawatt-hour this month, the highest in three years, after the Iran conflict choked LNG shipments through the […]
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The wind industry is approaching a structural inflection point. Early fleets in Europe and the United Kingdom are aging faster than advertised, composite blade waste is outrunning recycling capacity, and decommissioning liabilities are coming due just as subsidy structures change. Two recent posts by Peter Clack capture the twin problems: rapid performance decay well short […]
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How a policy sold as climate leadership transferred industrial power, energy security, and emissions to Beijing. David Blackmon put it as bluntly as anyone in energy journalism has: every facet of the West’s net-zero obsession and taxpayer-subsidized “energy transition” is designed, in practice, to benefit one country. That country is China. On September 20, 2026, […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article first ran in Andrew Korybko’s Newsletter, and we recommend reading and subscribing. In my opinion, trust no news reports right now, as false flags are looming. Very everything. Article 5 doesn’t mandate the use of military force in support of an ally, and it certainly wasn’t meant to be exploited […]
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The global diesel squeeze just absorbed another shock. Overnight into Sunday, Ukrainian drones reached the Gazprom Neft Moscow Oil Refinery in Kapotnya — about 16 miles, or 25 kilometers, from the Kremlin — during what Russia called the largest drone barrage of 2026. This was not a one-off raid on a storage tank. It was […]
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In this episode of Energy Newsbeat, host Stu Turley and energy industry expert Rey Trevino tackle the perfect storm facing America’s energy sector. With diesel prices hitting record highs, critical refineries offline, and geopolitical tensions threatening global oil supplies, the hosts dissect nine major energy stories that reveal how decades of regulatory missteps and policy […]
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On September 16, 2026, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen used her State of the Union address in Strasbourg to invite Canada to become the European Union’s first “associate member.” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney sat in the front row as guest of honor. The chamber gave him a standing ovation. Von der Leyen […]
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Saudi Arabia has told OPEC that its crude production collapsed again in August 2026, falling 1.9 million barrels per day to 6.238 million b/d—the lowest level the kingdom has reported since 1990, at the outset of the Gulf War. Riyadh attributed the drop to renewed U.S.–Iran hostilities that squeezed its export routes. That official communication, […]
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The green-steel project was sold as the industrial proof of Net Zero: replace coking coal with hydrogen, swap blast furnaces for electric arc furnaces, keep the mills, cut emissions, and lead the world. In Germany, the United Kingdom, and across the EU, that story is colliding with energy prices, missing hydrogen, cheap imported steel, and […]
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