Going to start a new Electro-Yuan thread since its 1 catchy replacement to petrodollar choking at Hormuz 2 China's role in electrotech is about to surge. "China’s cross border payment system hit an all time high in volume yesterday..over 100% growth compared to the Feb data" x.com/joshualipsky...

Update: The US Auto industry has retreated from EVs. That strategy will relegate them to the domestic market only or to extinction. The world is shifting to EVs. Global sales of fully internal combustion engine vehicles peaked in 2017. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 Paywalled link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Things are moving fast in the energy world thanks to the latest war. I cover a lot of the highlights of the past week in this piece.

the person who wrote "self-serving homeless industrial complex" should have their housing taken away, permanently. i am not even kidding lol. if there is one homeless person on earth, it should be whoever wrote that phrase in this statement

Excited to see this piece out in The Guardian. An honor to work with @amywestervelt.bsky.social and Marcello Rossi on this www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Gotta love how Abundance folk at the Institute for Progress are spinning the Trump administration's deal with TotalEnergies (to buy out offshore wind leases & reinvest that money into fossil fuels) as not a problem for "permitting reform" debates. Truly impressive acrobatics!

Trump as unwitting agent of decarbonization...

LMAO at Duke radio calling for a celebration tech on UConn

For a typical US household, about 15% of monthly electricity bills goes straight to shareholder profits - a recurring wealth transfer from everyone to the small minority of people who own the vast majority of stock (the richest 10% of Americans - all multimillionaires - hold ~90% of US stock value).

March 24, 2026. Strait of Hormuz. A line of oil tankers is waiting for Iran’s permission to pass.

Heart wrenching for everyone especially the folks living downwind of this toxic death plume who have been fighting for a just transition for decades.

There’s at least a 95 percent chance that your favorite Abundance Democrat who wants “permitting reform” has been heavily influenced by the ideas and writing of the Breakthrough Institute

Claim 3: “Fossil fuel markets are highly competitive”. If, as it appears, his yardstick is subsidies, he really needs to do some research. Globally, the IMF states, explicit subsidies for fossil fuels were $725 billion in 2024. Implicit subsidies were $6.7 trillion. www.imf.org/en/publicati...

This is insane.

📍 NEW 📍 For a century, oil companies dredged wetlands and dumped toxic wastewater into the Louisiana Gulf Coast marshes. Now, the Supreme Court will hear a case to hold oil giants accountable. buff.ly/J0nUASP @emdashsanders @exxonknews #LouisianaGulf #oilwells

Fact check: true

lmao

More than 630 people, at least 91 of them children, have been killed in Lebanon in the past week, authorities say, as the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran has engulfed the country.

64/ Day by day, this war is becoming a ecological catastrophe. on land and sea, fuel depots, oil fields, petrocehmical refineries, oil and gas tankers, are burning, billowing toxic smoke into the lungs of people and animals and sludge into marine life. ceobs.org/how-does-war...

I love the idea that *this* US government, which has been nabbing landscapers and five year olds knows where Iranian sleeper cells are but just hasn’t gotten around to doing anything about it yet.

Drone strikes in Haiti. Drone strikes. In Haiti. By private contractors. They’re killing Haitians for private profit & the world barely pays attention. The story of Haiti is the story America likes to tell about itself. Except there, it’s true. And the west has never stopped punishing Haiti for it

21/ Its day eleven. Hormuz is Closed. Fuel is trapped in Persian Gulf. Asian Countries now rationing fuel. – Vietnam told people to WORK FROM HOME because they're running out of fuel – Bangladesh started fuel RATIONING -limits on how much you can pump per vehicle –Asia-wide petrol prices surging

Crucial point is alternatives exist. they are cheap. The sun and wind are not being choked at Hormuz. The worst case scenario for oil companies is that people permanently shift... what they call “demand destruction“ This war will accelerates that ongoing shift to solar+EVs+batteries.

"Permitting reform" isn't about climate or affordability. It's 100% about Energy & Tech industries exploiting Trump chaos to let fossil fuels & AI data centers bulldoze people & the environment. What are we doing here, @whitehouse.senate.gov & @heinrich.senate.gov?

Global wind turbine installations hit a record last year! 😍 about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

LOL

I tend to hear opinions like this from people who have never interacted with a farmer. I talk to farmers fairly regularly. They don’t want to quit farming. They just want to be paid fairly for their labor.

TPUSA is teaming up with Google and NextEra in both municipal and statewide races in Arizona, in part to control the future of a gigantic, publicly owned water and power utility, the Salt River Project. Note the coalition here. Masks are coming off at the utility and energy intersection.

BREAKING: The US has bombed Tehran’s main refinery and burning oil is now flooding down the streets into the city’s sewers. This is a vision from hell, unleashed by the US tonight. (🎥 Vahid Online)

“Oil lobbyists have made the case to Trump officials in recent weeks that his attacks on wind farms off the U.S. coast risk derailing congressional efforts to speed up permits for energy projects, according to people familiar with the matter.” www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

This story, from @natezuke.bsky.social, is absolutely wild. A trans woman who never changed her gender marker was issued a letter invalidating her license. At the DMV they cut up her license, which had an "M" marker. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Each one of those three missiles costs 33% more than the annual budget of the national park where I work.

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Despite sanctions, Iran is one of the world's major oil producers, with much of its crude exported to China. n.pr/3N9eJKA

This hypothesis doesn't hold up to scrutiny and yet is accepted as gospel truth in the electricity sector. Brendon's experiment is interesting, but trained experts looked at this and i included it in our policy analysis paper, Overcharged (in my pinned post). www.hbs.edu/ris/Publicat...

US kills 11 people in three strikes on alleged drug-trafficking vessels https://aje.news/bqq041

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

NEW – Analysis: China’s CO2 emissions have now been ‘flat or falling’ for 21 months | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social @creacleanair.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/wC1nbXO

FEMA decision time for disaster declarations has more that doubled as of 2025. Previously 1 in 6 applications denied, now 1 in 4. Incredible new interactive dashboard from @andrewrumbach.bsky.social andrewrumbach.com/disaster-lab

The only people facing consequences for their ties to Jeffrey Epstein are Europeans.

These bitches eating CHICKEN

History will remember, as we flood, boil and parch. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

this is incredibly frustrating. By framing this as a policy demand Dems are aiding a disinformation campaign that is intended to confuse the public about what is constitutionally required.

The Treasury's guidance for 45z, the Clean Fuel tax credit, indicates its moving forward with allowing biofuels producers to account for "climate smart agriculture" — which could ultimately just make the credit an even bigger subsidy for ethanol heatmap.news/politics/45z...

this rules and everyone opposed to it just sounds like this to me

The AI data center "buildout is overwhelmingly powered by natural gas." Despite claims re: alternative generation, "the equipment actually being installed in 2025 and 2026 is almost entirely gas-fired. Renewable capacity, where committed, is scheduled for 2028 or later. Nuclear is a decade away."

It's actually not hard to be against ICE, if you want to.

little item for the Senate Dems to ponder: which of the reforms you’re currently floating is going to stop this?

ERAS lets utilities cut the interconnection line—fast-tracking billions in gas projects after years of poor planning. “Temporary” fixes have a way of becoming permanent (and expensive) precedents. Why regulators should slow down and protect ratepayers: www.rtoinsider.com/124815-eras-...