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** Your periodic reminder that the Paris Agreement was, and is, a China First treaty.
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Oil Price ([link removed]) (12/18/25) article: "Bloomberg Opinion columnist and chief energy correspondent Javier Blas posted a chart on X from the International Energy Agency's new global coal report showing that coal demand jumped to an all-time high this year, despite years of efforts by the green-industrial complex to end its very existence. 'Global coal demand rose to an all-time high in 2025, up 0.5% y-on-y to 8,845 million tons (also, @IEA revised up 2024),' Blas wrote on X, adding, 'Now, IEA says 2025 will mark a peak, with consumption dropping over the next 5 years. Time will tell, but previous peak forecasts were off.' Years of climate alarmists' demonization of coal have seemingly failed. In fact, coal remains structurally embedded in power systems and heavy industry, especially in Asia, even as renewables expand....China consumes more coal than the rest of the world combined and fully determines global
trends....What may infuriate climate alarmists is that coal is not disappearing this decade and will continue to serve as a bridge in a world of surging power demand from AI data centers and other electrification trends until sufficient nuclear power generation comes online, which is a 2030s story."
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** "Offshore wells produced 700 billion cubic feet of natural gas last year, accounting for two percent of the nation’s supply. Because natural gas generates roughly 40 percent of America’s electricity, increasing offshore production would help meet the surging power demand from data center buildouts, manufacturing, and electrification trends."
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– Austin Gae, The Heritage Foundation ([link removed])

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Trump found the Wright man for the job at DOE.

** E&E News ([link removed])
(12/19/25) reports: "The Department of Energy is moving at a fast clip and making major changes under Secretary Chris Wright as the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term wraps up.Thousands of staffing positions have been cut. Over $11 billion in grants has been canceled. Decades-old energy efficiency regulations have been dismantled. DOE has issued emergency orders to keep coal plants from retiring, part of its focus on fossil fuels. And it’s pushing to expand the data center boom. 'It’s been a massive swing,' said Tom Pyle, president of the fossil-fuel-supporting, free-market group American Energy Alliance....'Secretary Wright is just a really, really knowledgeable person. He’s extremely well qualified for this job,' said Pyle. Heading into the next year, many questions remain about how the Trump administration intends to execute its energy policy: What specific loans will be offered to energy companies? How many more billions of dollars might be cut from Biden-era
projects?...'I don’t think the department should be in the business of deployment. It should be in the business of research and development,' said Pyle, referencing DOE’s historic R&D role in energy development."

No energy source is free of trade-offs, no matter how creatively Big Green, Inc. markets it.

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The numbers don't lie. If you're looking for affordable electricity, you'll need to escape from New York.

** Energy Security & Freedom ([link removed])
(12/19/25) substack: "Governor Hochul’s letter announcing the approval of the State Energy Plan states: 'If any state can show the nation that a clean energy transition can be reliable, affordable, and achievable, it’s New York.' Gaslighting involves repeatedly denying, distorting, or contradicting what the target knows or observes so that they begin to question their reality and judgment. The Hochul Administration is gaslighting us to cover up the fact that the recently approved State Energy Plan analysis shows the clean energy transition costs are anything but affordable...This is a common feature of all states that have similar ambitions. Energy Bad Boys Isaac Orr and Mitch Rolling ** released a report ([link removed])
this week entitled Blue States, High Rates that Always On Energy Research coauthored with the Institute for Energy Research. You can access the entire report ** here ([link removed])
. The report includes the following section describing New York: 'Federal data show New York’s electricity prices were 58% higher than the national average and 62% higher than Florida’s, based on the average all-sectors rate from January 2025 to August 2025.'"

Energy Markets


WTI Crude Oil: ↑ $56.67
Natural Gas: ↓ $3.90
Gasoline: ↓ $2.88

Diesel: ↓ $3.62
Heating Oil: ↑ $213.17
Brent Crude Oil: ↑ $60.30
** US Rig Count ([link removed])
: ↑ 565



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