In a 218-203 vote on May 13, 2026, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would greenlight year-round, nationwide sales of E15 gasoline—a blend containing 15% ethanol. This is also part of Big Oil companies and refineries ganging up on smaller refineries, trying to wipe them out. That is also a major point I […]
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The International Energy Agency (IEA) has delivered a stark warning: global oil demand is now on track to contract sharply in 2026 amid the ongoing Strait of Hormuz supply shock triggered by the Iran war. What began as a geopolitical disruption has morphed into a full-blown demand destruction event, with high prices, scarce supplies, and […]
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ENB Pub Note: Just a friendly reminder that we have been tracking a national security issue in California. The following is from Ronald Stein on America Outloud, and we recommend following and subscribing! California is the 4th largest economy in the world and an “ENERGY ISLAND that is isolated from the other 49 States by […]
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Australia’s own Treasury has run the numbers on a nightmare escalation of the Iran conflict — and the result is a doomsday scenario that would send global oil prices to $200 a barrel, throw the world economy into chaos, and expose just how fragile Australia’s energy position has become. In its annual budget papers released […]
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Independent “teapot” refiners in China — the smaller, privately owned facilities concentrated in Shandong province that account for roughly a quarter of the country’s refining capacity — are slashing production rates as the ongoing paralysis in the Strait of Hormuz drives crude prices higher and crushes refining margins. According to industry sources cited by Reuters […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article was originally run on David Blackmon’s Substack, and we highly recommend subscribing. Ethonal needs to go away and have an organized move out of the market. This needs to be shut down, as it is worse for the environment, and ruins cars and shortens their useful life. Unless you are […]
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On May 8, 2026, an explosion and fire rocked the Chalmette Refinery in Chalmette, Louisiana, just east of New Orleans. Operated by PBF Energy, the facility processes roughly 185,000–190,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude into gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, and specialty products. The incident occurred around 12:50–1:00 p.m. CDT in an operating 17,500-bpd reformer […]
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In a candid interview at the Milken Institute Global Conference, Chevron Chairman and CEO Mike Wirth delivered a sobering assessment of the global oil market: the industry’s traditional “shock absorbers” — commercial inventories in tanks, oil on tankers (including shadow fleet vessels), and strategic petroleum reserves — have been significantly drawn down in recent months […]
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It is time to get out of ethanol and other renewable fuels that deliver no real benefit to the environment or to American consumers. The latest push for year-round sales of E15 — gasoline blended with 15% ethanol — is not deregulation or consumer choice. It is a Trojan horse for expanding the Renewable Fuel […]
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In a striking parallel amid the ongoing U.S.-Israel conflict with Iran, two distant regions—sub-Saharan Africa’s Mozambique and the U.S. West Coast’s California—are facing acute fuel supply pressures. Both heavily rely on petroleum products whose supply chains trace back to the Strait of Hormuz, the critical chokepoint through which roughly 20-25% of global seaborne oil and […]
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