One of the basic ways to thwart tyrants, bullies, and thugs is this: Do not let them steal your joy.

“I have asked the clergy of the diocese to make sure their affairs are in order and they have written their wills, not the time for statements. It is time to put our bodies between the powers of this world and the most vulnerable”. Rob Hirschfeld, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire

"Continued solar and storage growth would avoid the use of 29 billion cubic feet of natural gas, which is equivalent to 25% of the natural gas currently used by the Massachusetts electric sector." A couple of years ago no one was talking about residential storage being widely used.

Minneapolis right now— At 35th and Park, a crowd has gathered after a car crash involving the feds. Agents just launched tear gas and pepper balls at people.

"If the projection of American power sparks another strategy shift in Beijing, it could be to accelerate the transition away from fossil fuels." Unless Trump can block the sun....

Ask yourself. If ICE is going door to door, what’s next? Armed federal agents took a man away in handcuffs. A woman came out of the house and said the man was her husband. It also appears ICE used an administrative warrant, not a judicial warrant. That matters….

Good to see the media acknowledging methane emissions from oil and gas are a big problem. Now if they would only report more on the issue for US oil and gas production which LEADS THE WORLD in methane emissions from oil and gas and is greatly adding to the problem with LNG exports.

"Wall Street’s biggest banks made more money financing green projects than they did from working with fossil fuel companies for a fourth straight year..." How many people know this? The economics are on the side of clean energy. The petrofascists know. Can they stop it?

A video of ICE agents conducting door-to-door searches today in Minneapolis The homeowner requests a warrant repeatedly, is told they don't require one, then is told they're getting it, then the agents storm in anyway They also point a taser at her to try and disrupt filming

This is an indicator, not a cause, but thwarting the attempted authoritarian takeover will ultimately require mainstream outlets to not call this a "feud," but instead an attempt at intimidation in order to seize unconstitutional and extralegal power. Not there yet.

It is wild to watch Trump think he can lower interest rates by just taking control of the Fed when the market is clearing signaling the opposite will happen. I imagine the conversations with Trump on this situation (if they happen) are a lot like this one from Spinal Tap.

Here is a blast from the past. This was from the first term. Still seems relevant.

While we justifiably are asking journalists and politicians and any decent people why they are still on the "child porn distribution site run by the world's richest Nazi" I also wonder about the people who work at that company. Any resignations we know of? Is this reflective of tech in general?

Force is required to deal with this. Telling people to remain peaceful isn't adequate. To de-escalate, Governor Walz should mobilize the Minnesota Army National Guard to keep federal agents away from residents. A leader who stands by while these attacks take place is no leader at all.

"The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action without thereby risking arrest is one of the principal characteristics by which we distinguish a free nation from a police state." —William J. Brennan Jr., joined by White, Blackmun, Stevens, & Marshall, Houston v. Hill, 1987

Good morning with good news: India's new solar & battery storage price of 3.5 cents/kWh kills fossil fuels! 1.2 GW of solar & 600 MW/3600 MWh of batteries for 3.5 cents/kWh! Wow! 3.5 cents/kWh for dispatchable solar! EXISTING coal is 5.4 cents/kWh! #energysky www.pv-magazine.com/2026/01/12/i...

This piece on the Colorado oil lease auction reminds me of a word I heard recently from the CEO of Exxon while discussing new oil opportunities.... "uninvestable" Lot of that going around. There is plenty of oil left in the world but not a lot left that makes money at $60/barrel.

Trump is clearly not well. At a meeting with oil industry CEO’s Trump suddenly interrupts his introductory remarks, gets up and looks out the window and starts talking about his ballroom. Trump then realizes his mistake and says “unusual time to look”, and sits back down to continue.

It's 14 degrees above normal here today. In prime winter heating season. The reduces demand for natural gas.

This is the guy guiding economic policy for the country.

The executive told Financial Times, "We're talking about this administration screwing us over again…. If the U.S. government starts providing guarantees to oil companies to produce or grow oil production in Venezuela. I'm going to be…. pissed."

In Venezuela the money is in the oil, not the associated gas, so that gas is all flared and vented. Same is true in Texas. And North Dakota, etc.

India’s energy storage market set for breakout year in 2026 #energysky -- via pv magazine global:

Lying in the bed that you made....

There is a lot of media coverage over this deal and how Singer is getting credit for being really smart in acquiring....stay with me here....the rights to three US refineries and a lot of gas stations. The idea that this is a smart investment in 2026 is questionable.

A resignation letter: "We all saw it. We all saw, with our own two eyes, people getting dragged like dogs and killed. But we could not write one line about it on the newspaper. In shame, we put down our pens. May 20, 1980 All Journalists of Jeonnam Maeil Shinmun"

“If the spread between Henry Hub, TTF and JKM falls below the variable cost to ship LNG, then some of those cargoes will be cancelled,” Rau said. “We really haven’t seen that since Covid, but it likely will happen again at some point, especially if the world is flooded with gas.” US LNG will lose $

'They don’t care. They’re just animals. I’ve never seen people behave like this.'"

Last month I wrote about Harold Hamm and how he has misled the people of America about how much oil we can produce while at the same time investing in other countries. Like this: "Harold Hamm’s Continental Resources Inc. is expanding its interest in Argentina’s gas-rich Vaca Muerta shale play..."

On CNN!! “The largest economy in the world is embracing a petrostate approach. It just reinforces this notion that the United States is increasingly going backward on the energy transition and on top of that, is very willing and able to deploy military forces to achieve that goal.”

Batteries are the fossil fuel killer. China knows and would prefer to not be reliant on fossil fuels from place like Venezuela. So they do this.

"No private company will invest in Venezuela’s oil infrastructure with their own money. Wall St. will charge up to 25%, so no companies will go forward because they can’t make money. That’s why Trump is now saying that Americans are supposed to pay to get Venezuela’s oil flowing less sluggishly."

"The US president will have to hope that the LNG industry is correct." A conman will have to hope that another group of conmen are correct or US consumers will pay much higher electricity and heating prices. Want to guess how that ends?

"The fossil fuel industry is essentially running the United States government from the inside. It's a desperate industry. They know that clean renewable energy is cheaper. "

At risk of repeating myself: if you have a Twitter/X account then at least pause it. Tell organisations you work for/are involved in to stop posting there.

I'm so grateful to see someone say this out loud, without fear of being called an alarmist or a pearl-clutcher. Because history shows the roadmap very clearly. If we don't call it what it is, we can't deal with it realistically. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

"Just as AI does not require fossil fuels or nuclear power, modern mobility does not require internal combustion. What requires them are the vested interests whose business models collapse when energy and movement decentralise." Good read.

California is around the 5th largest economy in the world. Nat gas prices are dropping there for some reason. "A notable exception were prices in California, where renewables have chipped away at natural gas’ share of the electric generation market."

"Per Reuters’ Russell, the European Union bought an average 1.73 million barrels daily of U.S. crude oil in 2025. That was down from 1.91 million barrels daily a year earlier."

this is a new one. "The senior administration official said the transfer would happen quickly because Venezuela’s crude is very heavy, which means it can’t be stored for long."

India’s coal dims; renewables shine. #econsky

Something I see a lot of folks missing in discussions about what's happening Venezuela, particularly around oil, is the role U.S. oil majors' interest in Guyana—and the threat Venezuela posed to it—has in all of it. Explainer here: drilled.media/news/guyana-...

The economic idiocy on display is pretty wild. Apparently Trump created a new oil empire where he has a new unique power. "Washington would have the means to keep the oil price close to $50 a barrel" Brilliant. None of the US oil industry makes money at that price. What a great option to have!

I've seen a lot of commentary on the Venezuelan oil situation. Personally, I wouldn't trust anyone's estimates on the economics of VZ oil production just yet.

“This is just the latest chapter in a long history of extractive companies from North America profiting from poisoning and polluting in Latin America,” Mikulka said. Comment on current events? No. Something I said last month.

Seb Kennedy is a great gas market analyst. And he has lived and worked in Venezuela. His take on things is definitely worth your time.

It's technically true what they say: As a Flow Gas, Anthropogenic Methane wouldn't contribute much to global warming if emissions held steady for about 12 years. There's only one problem...

“If we just replace coal plants with LNG, that means the coal exit actually doesn’t lead to a green transition and merely shifts Korea’s addiction from coal to gas, which undermines the whole spirit of climate action," Lee said. Pretty easy to understand.

"If all the stars align — which is to say that government policy is supportive, industry delivers and the technology works — there could be a global fleet of 1,000 SMRs with aggregate capacity of 120 gigawatts by 2050" 120 gigawatts by 2050 is a rounding error in the global energy system.