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DAILY ENERGY NEWS | 05/06/2022

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I wonder if the Ukrainians have channeled their inner green deal lately?

The Guardian (5/4/22) reports: "Brussels officials are being trained to meditate to help them tackle the climate crisis as part of a new wave of 'applied mindfulness' that seeks to take the Buddhism-inspired practice 'off the cushion' and into hard politics. EU officials working on the 27-country bloc’s green deal climate policy are attending 'inner green deal' courses intended to foster a deeper connection among decision-makers and negotiators tasked with tackling the crisis. The courses incorporate woodland walks near Brussels and meditation sessions, including one that invites participants to feel empathy for trees and animals to boost 'environmental compassion.'"

"Joe Biden, with his combined ideals of 'green energy' and 'printing greenbacks', has made high prices a phenomenon that will linger for the near and intermediate-term future. Large domestic energy companies have been hamstrung in their ability to explore for and extract domestic oil and gas reserves... Joe Biden did this. And he did it on purpose. What’s worse is that he told us he was going to do it before he was elected. But the greatest tragedy is that Americans either didn’t believe it, understand it, or care about it. They care now."

– B ob Rubin, Rubin Wealth Advisors

Special K is killing it.

Reuters (5/6/22) reports: "India is planning to reopen more than 100 coal mines previously considered financially unsustainable, a government official said on Friday, as a power crisis forces the world's third-biggest greenhouse gas emitter to double down on the dirty fuel. The country's electricity demand touched a record high in April as nearly three in four of India's 1.35 billion people endured the hottest pre-summer months in decades."

Have mercy, been waitin' for the bus all day...

LeMonde (4/29/22) reports: "149 electric buses will be taken off the streets of Paris temporarily 'as a precaution'" after two of the vehicles caught fire, public transport operator RATP said Friday, April 29. Following a second blaze on Friday morning, in which no one was hurt, 'RATP has taken the decision to suspend use of 149 electric buses' of manufacturer Bollore's Bluebus 5SE model, the state-owned company said."

How you feeling?

Science Magazine (5/4/22) reports: "One study suggests Arctic rainfall will become dominant in the 2060s, decades earlier than expected. Another claims air pollution from forest fires in the western United States could triple by 2100. A third says a mass ocean extinction could arrive in just a few centuries. All three studies, published in the past year, rely on projections of the future produced by some of the world’s next-generation climate models. But even the modelmakers acknowledge that many of these models have a glaring problem: predicting a future that gets too hot too fast. Although modelmakers are adapting to this reality, researchers who use the model projections to gauge the impacts of climate change have yet to follow suit. That has resulted in a parade of “faster than expected” results that threatens to undermine the credibility of climate science, some researchers fear."

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George Landrith, Frontiers of Freedom

Thomas A. Schatz, Citizens Against Government Waste

Richard Manning, Americans for Limited Government

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Craig Richardson, E&E Legal

Benjamin Zycher, American Enterprise Institute
Jason Hayes, Mackinac Center
David Williams, Taxpayers Protection Alliance
Paul Gessing, Rio Grande Foundation
Seton Motley, Less Government
Annette Thompson Meeks, Freedom Foundation of Minnesota
Isaac Orr, Center of the American Experiment
David T. Stevenson & Clint Laird, Caesar Rodney Institute
John Droz, Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions
Jim Karahalios, Axe the Carbon Tax
Mark Mathis, Clear Energy Alliance
Jack Ekstrom, PolicyWorks America

Energy Markets

WTI Crude Oil: ↑ $110.38
Natural Gas: ↑ $8.79
Gasoline: ↑ $4.28

Diesel: ↑ $5.51
Heating Oil: ↓ $400.47
Brent Crude Oil: ↑ $113.16
US Rig Count: ↑ 780

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