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Yes, fuel prices are high, but the war with Iran is only a small part of the pain at the pump. Why has the government spent the past half century quietly building so many costs into the petroleum industry, that the added cost burden of even a brief war is the straw that breaks the camel’s back?
‘Barron’s Roundtable’ panelists discuss three things investors should keep in mind.
Don Surber covers the media’s offerings this week with a precision in mockery that only he can execute. It may take you a moment to figure out where he’s coming from, but when you do, you’ll be better informed than if you’d watched mainstream media 24/7.
Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan reports on the new developments out of Venezuela on ‘Special Report.’
New York state’s tax policy is exiling millionaires to Florida. California’s craziness is banishing billionaires.
But Illinois has them beat with its climate change laws that are forcing two-thirds of an electric plant in Elwood to take the advice of Suzy Bogguss and drive South with the one they love.
The chattering class has once again been shocked by President Trump’s out-of-the box actions. For years, we’ve been led to believe in the oft-repeated international consensus among “experts” that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and has a stranglehold on the world’s hydrocarbon-powered economy.
Even though Tesla has exhibited supremacy in electric vehicle development, the EV revolution got off to a bad start due to a few isolated, but well publicized, reports of car and cell phone battery fires. Hurting worse was the lack of conformity for charging stations/plugs. China and European car makers are expanding their increasingly better EV models while Ford, GM and Honda, being unable to catch-up with the technology, scaled back their battery-tech programs after Trump relaxed federal mandates.
South Dakota’s 101st session of its state legislature recently completed work and adjourned last month, with a number of unresolved matters carrying forward for further work and deliberation.
The top 12 issues that continue to be debated are discussed below, with the ranking order determined by estimated public interest and salience. Each of the issues presented concludes with a positional statement on the issue from a traditionalist constitutional and fiscal conservative standpoint.
The modern “15-Minute City” can provide some wonderful benefits; however it also provides increased opportunity for politicians to control the people.
What is FERC, you ask?:
“FERC’s Mission: Assist consumers in obtaining reliable, safe, secure, and economically efficient energy services at a reasonable cost through appropriate regulatory and market means, and collaborative efforts.”
“Privatize the profit – socialize the costs?” You betcha.
Utility companies are their own personalized legal black hole. Private companies own them – but get all sorts of government cronyism to aid and abet their profit making and taking.
It’s a quintessential example of the Diet Fascism that now dominates the US.
That rascally rodent, Punxsutawney Phil projected six more weeks of winter, something which should have expired on Monday, but Tuesday sure was cold as well. We know that the groundhog’s projections are scientific, because the Weather Channel sends very scientifically-minded Meteorologist Jen Carfagno to cover it. Alas! Not only did we not get an early …
The modern world likes to believe it has outgrown geography. Satellites circle the planet, data moves at the speed of light, and weapons can strike targets from continents away. Military theorists speak confidently about cyber war, artificial intelligence, and fifth-generation conflict conducted across digital networks and orbital platforms. Yet despite all this technological sophistication, the global economy still depends on an astonishingly simple fact of physical geography: about twenty-one miles of ocean between Iran and Oman control roughly a quarter of the world’s oil and enormous quantities of energy-related commodities such as petrochemical feedstocks and fertilizer inputs.
Cheap, abundant oil lubricates the economy. Gasoline and diesel is cheaper. Which means everything delivered in vehicles running on gasoline and diesel is cheaper. Which is pretty much everything.
On Boxing Day of 2023, I noted an article in The Wall Street Journal concerning investors souring on electric vehicle charging companies. In plug in electric vehicles are the wave of the future, why would investors not be moving into, rather than out of, such companies? Note that the original article was from December of …
The price of a gallon on gas is not set by multi-billion-dollar corporations. It’s set by local businesses.
A side benefit of the Operation Epic Fury is testing the war materiel of the Russian and Red Chinese military. With little exception, they are failing again as they did in the extraction of Maduro from Venezuela
Monday morning greeted me with a 34 cents-a-gallon increase in gasoline prices. All gave some. Most gave a few pennies a gallon. Some gave all.
In Guyana, the only Latin American country with English as its official language, they just say drill, baby, drill—and the black gold from that oil has made a once-impoverished Guyana the richest nation in South America and the Caribbean.
