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MORNING ENERGY NEWS | 02/25/2020

Breaking the law to stop clean, affordable energy because you read an Occupy Democrats meme telling you the air is dirty in America.

Up To Boston (2/21/20) reports: "Over 200 people gathered outside the site of a natural gas compressor station in Weymouth on Wednesday resulting in the arrest of at least 13 individuals, according to police. The protest, organized by local activists Fore River Residents Against the Compressor Station, was in response to the construction of a natural gas pipeline proposed by private Canadian energy firm Enbridge. Dubbed the Atlantic Bridge Project, the $452 million pipeline is designed to export natural gas supplies from New Jersey to New England and the Canadian Maritime provinces. Construction on the compressor station in December after a permit was issued by the Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs following a five-year review, including independent air quality and environmental reviews, sparking widespread local criticism—including a hunger strike by Boston University professor Nathan Phillips...'I have a responsibility, as someone who enjoys breathing fresh air and drinking clean water, to stand up so that people everywhere have access to the same life-sustaining rights,' said protestor Kiki Clougherty."

Meanwhile, in the real world...

"These days, perspectives don’t matter; numbers don’t matter; all that matters is that everyone, everywhere, join the climate crusade and pull their moral weight – regardless of whether your business has the competence or your industry is well-placed to efficiently reduce emissions."

– J oakim Book,
American Institute for Economic Research

Why do environmentalists hate the homeless?

T he Buffalo News (2/21/20) reports: "When New York announced its ban on plastic bags last year, Gail Potter had two feelings: 'I was devastated. I was crushed,' she said Friday. It's not because she doesn't care about the environment. She describes herself as an 'over-recycler.' It's because she has seen the good in plastic bags. The Mats for a Mission nonprofit group she founded in 2016 uses donated, clean plastic bags to crochet sleeping mats for homeless people. The mats – more than 500 so far – keep people off the cold or wet ground, and are washable. When New York's ban on plastic bags goes into effect March 1, stores that collect sales tax will not be able to put their items in plastic bags for customers to carry home. Consumers are the main source of bags for the group...It takes 850 bags and 50 hours to crochet one 3-foot-by-6-foot-long mat. Add another 20 hours to smooth the bags, chop the ends off, cut them into strips and tie them together to make "plarn," or plastic yarn. She estimates the group has kept about half a million bags out of the waste stream. She has distributed 470 of the colorful, quarter-inch thick pads. There are another 110 ready to give out next month."

First Americans are left in the cold while Nanny Bloomberg and company promise to prohibit what they have left.

E&E News (2/24/20) reports: "Navajo and Hopi families in northeastern Arizona that have long relied on coal to heat their homes are looking to other sources after last year's closure of a coal mine. The Kayenta mine shut down after decades of supplying the Navajo Generating Station near Page along the Arizona-Utah border. The Navajo and Hopi tribes shared in the coal royalties. Tribal members also had access to the coal, regularly loading the long-burning fossil fuel into pickup trucks or buying it from roadside vendors. In the first winter without it, they're having to travel farther for coal, switching to firewood or even burning household items to stay warm. 'Coal economically works better because it burns longer, you don't need as much in order to heat your home,' said Monica Nuvamsa, who would drive two hours from her home in Shungopavi on the Hopi reservation to collect coal for her grandmother from the Kayenta mine. Peabody Energy Corp., which owned the Kayenta mine, had provided cards for free coal to Navajo and Hopi government centers to distribute to tribal members. Others could buy it. The loading facility was open three days a week, from late October to mid-March, serving thousands of visitors a year."

Sounds safe.

Business Insider (2/19/20) reports: "It turns out all it takes to fool a Tesla's camera system is a little tape. Two security researchers managed to trick two Teslas into accelerating well past the speed limit by fooling their camera systems into misreading a speed sign. We first saw the news via MIT Technology Review. The McAfee researchers Steve Povolny and Shivangee Trivedi stuck 2 inches of black tape on a 35-mph speed sign, slightly elongating the middle line in the '3.' They then drove a 2016 Tesla Model X toward the sign with cruise control enabled. Cruise control is a feature of Tesla's self-driving system, Autopilot, that is supposed to control the car's speed and keep it a safe distance behind the car in front of it. As the car approached the altered sign it misread it as 85 mph — and started to accelerate by 50 mph. The same happened in a 2016 Model S... A representative told MIT Tech Review the modified sign could have been misread by a human and said the camera hadn't been designed for fully autonomous driving, which the person said would use a variety of technologies including 'crowdsourced mapping' to support cameras."

Break out the hot plate.

Washington Examiner (2/22/20) column: "In July, in an effort to combat global warming, Berkeley, California, became the first city in the United States to prohibit natural gas in new buildings, including residential homes. 'We need to tackle climate change every way that we can,' said Berkeley City Councilwoman Kate Harrison, who led the effort. Other cities, including Sacramento, Los Angeles, and San Jose, are developing their own policies in what appears to be the latest trend to save the planet. But does banning gas for heating and cooking in residential developments make sense? Lawmakers and environmental activists often overlook important issues. Assuming that people will continue to cook their meals at home and that exotic solutions such as sun-powered grills are exercised by a tiny fraction of the population, people will still need devices that heat their pots and pans for cooking."

Energy Markets

WTI Crude Oil: ↓ $51.27
Natural Gas: ↑ $1.85
Gasoline: ↓ $2.47

Diesel: ↓ $2.87
Heating Oil: ↓ $160.75
Brent Crude Oil: ↓ $56.09
US Rig Count: ~ 810

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Energy Markets

WTI Crude Oil: ↑ $52.04
Natural Gas: ↓ $1.82
Gasoline: ↑ $2.43

Diesel: ↓ $2.89
Heating Oil: ↑ $168.42
Brent Crude Oil: ↑ $57.06
US Rig Count: ↓ 815

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