Does new transmission actually move the needle on clean energy? Here's a month of California data before and after SunZia came online. Wind is up by a third, and gas down by a third. Judge for yourself.

IMO even if the Strait reopens gas will hit a new record. I think people are too optimistic on the speed of reopening.

Top tips for road trip and summer travel: • Use cruise control, ease acceleration, and cut speed ~10mph for up to 10-25% better MPG • Use GasBuddy to compare prices + activate Flash Deals for up to 33c/gal off • Watch state lines—prices can swing sharply. Plan stops ahead

Every day the strait is closed global oil supplies get tighter. The Admin better be praying the Gulf Coast isn’t hit by a major hurricane this year.

It appears that at least one Ukrainian drone reached and dive-bombed into the Kstovo refinery, Nizhny Novgorod, in Russia.

The KGB thug and his middle school dropout master will have a lot fun in sharing jokes about the big beautiful American fiddle they play masterfully.

This goes for Senator Cassidy and Senator Cornyn (if he loses next week) as well. The GOP decided they don’t want you, grow a pair and go Independent.

According to GasBuddy in Denver gas was under $2.20 at the beginning of the year. At the station I walk by regularly it is now $4.99. Knowing Americans I am fairly confident the midterms will be a bloodbath for the GOP

Massie should change parties from Republican to Independent or Libertarian for the rest of his term

Only after a Republican’s political futures is over do they grow a spine.

Started Going

Of course Trump did. As soon as Paxton offered a sweetheart deal to a ped0phile it should have been obvious Epstein’s BFF would endorse him

Under Biden a bill was passed providing funding for fertilizer production to decrease reliance on imports from russia. The Trump Admin canceled the program.

Impressive message discipline to be canceling/forgoing all non ballroom-related public appearances (campaigning, prayer rally, naval academy), while his approval on every issue tanks, to issue rant after rant about how he needs your money for his deathstar ballroom

"This is not leadership. Our service members deserve far better" -- Rep. Crow demolishes Adm Cooper for repeatedly refusing to acknowledge that the law of war manual prohibits declarations of no quarter like the one Hegseth made

The more Russian refineries hit the better 💥

As the world is scheduled for wind and solar to be the largest sources of power by 2030 guess which data center thirsty global superpower is sprinting in the opposite direction as fast as it can

This is Memorial Day weekend so Trump is basically saying at least another week with no deal or escalation. Just another week of global energy supplies shrinking with zero progress towards resolution 🤷‍♂️

I am regularly surprised at how incompetently messaging about this war is from the Administration. I know I shouldn’t be.

In June the SPR will hit their lowest inventory levels in over 40 years and keep declining for another couple months after that

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I am still so pissed about his pardon

The US got nothing but humiliation. Remember, the Chinese middle school dropout could easily help stop the killing in UA by threatening to cut the lifeline to RU, open Hormuz by threatening to cut critical material supply, or release Jimmy Lai or Ezra Jin, but he did none of these.

In order to save more trees in Massachusetts, more of them need to be cut down. www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

Did I just miss it or did the USA not get anything of substance out of this trip to China?

11/12 I suspect the best we can hope for is a long, slow adjustment. It took Japan, for example, 17 years after 1991 to raise the consumption share of its GDP by ten percentage points, during which time its share of global manufacturing contracted gradually by over 50%.

10/12 Ip is right, and that's the problem. China's manufacturing expansion might be unsustainable, but an unsustainable process can go on for years, as long as there is debt capacity, and before it reverses it can cause a great deal of damage to manufacturing outside China.

8/12 The consequence of its refusal to adjust is that today China has the second largest debt burden of any country (after Japan) and the fastest-growing debt burden in history. China's growth model simply isn't sustainable.

7/12 investment and actual investment, but rather than adjust, China accelerated it even further, mostly into infrastructure, not because it urgently needed more infrastructure but because it wanted to mitigate the brutal impact the GFC had on its current account surplus.

1/12 Very good article by Greg Ip. I think the most important point he makes is this one: "The Achilles’ heel of Chinese industrial policy is its cost and waste. China runs bigger budget deficits relative to economic output than the U.S." www.wsj.com/world/china/...

I hate to bring it up as we enter yet another Republican Recession since it is too late now, but in 2024 a survey of nearly 40 top economists by the Financial Times and the University of Chicago found that 70% to 3%, Harris would be better than Trump on inflation. www.taxnotes.com/research/fed...

I am returning to Ukraine for my third volunteer tour since the full scale invasion. I'll be in Kyiv at the end of June, the home of Underwonder Restaurant. What will I be drinking?

if I were the governor of Colorado I would simply not pardon an attempted election thief for no reason whatsoever

Polis had said that remorse was a precondition for clemency. Peters has been famously defiant and unapologetic for leading a breach of Colorado’s voting systems. But Polis tells me Peters said she’s sorry her clemency application. www.9news.com/article/news... www.9news.com/article/news...

Next is live tonight from Mesa County, where Tina Peters’ crimes had a financial and reputational cost to the community. DA Dan Rubinstein (R) tells me that Polis’ decision is “out of touch with Western Colorado” and indicates he doesn’t understand the impact of Peters’ crimes.

Fuck Jared Polis

Pentagon halts deployments to Poland and Germany to cut troop numbers in Europe, AP sources say apnews.com/article/pola...

These facts, as reported by AAA, do not get shared nearly enough: Texas gas prices 42% higher YoY California gas prices 25% higher YoY Texas diesel prices 62% higher YoY California diesel prices 47% higher YoY #EnergySky

God it was so easy for Xi to play the senile narcissist. Just flatter, flatter, flatter

HAHAAHAHAHAHAA! They keep coming up with better and better midterm-election slogans: "Gas prices are high, but that's life." YOU GUYS ARE DOING GREAT, KEEP GOING!

COLLINS: But if someone was paying $2.98 a gallon before the war, and now they're paying $4.53, saying 'that's life' might not make them feel better JIM JORDAN: Those are your words, not mine COLLINS: You said that just now. I quoted you.

During the Biden Admin one of the BIGGEST complaints by the GOP was 🇺🇸 oil being sold to China (despite it being a global market)

Chinese middle school dropout: tore down thousands of churches, persecuted over a million Christians. Trump: you are a great leader. White: Trump is raised up by God as a king.

Here are my projections for the following fuels and a few select countries, as I do not believe the Hormuz situation will normalize in 2026. A loss of 14 million b/d of Gulf crude.

Yesterday another petition was discharged in the US House, this time requiring a vote on new Russian sanctions & loans to Ukraine despite the opposition of GOP majority leadership after former GOP Rep Kiley became the final signature needed. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/u...

Master fiddle playing has started with pageantry that Trump loves and admires.

Perm is the 7th largest Ruzzian refinery and accounts for 5% of Ruzzias refinery capacity.

Yesterday the EIA released their energy forecast which, using the assumption Hormuz reopens in TWO WEEKS, estimates OECD oil inventories will continue to decline until October and not recover until end of 2027

If the Strait doesn't re-open soon, I believe we could see the national average price of gasoline reaching $5/gal as early as sometime in June.

Trump Sunsetting Visibly Worsens as Aides Go Full Cult All Around Him newrepublic.com/article/2102... via @newrepublic.com