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DAILY ENERGY NEWS | 06/20/2022

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A lot of opaqueness from the administration promising the "highest standards of transparency."

The Daily Caller (6/17/22) reports: "The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has appeared to put off an information request related to the agency’s communications with White House officials. The Institute for Energy Research (IER), a Washington, D.C.-based energy policy group, requested copies of all email correspondence between FERC Chairman Richard Glick and the White House beginning in September 2021, in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request dated March 29, according to documents shared with The Daily Caller News Foundation. The IER filed the request after Glick said under oath, during a March 3 Senate hearing, that he hadn’t consulted with any Biden administration higher-ups about implementing policies blocking domestic natural gas pipeline development. 'Absolutely not,' Glick — who President Joe Biden nominated to lead the commission in early 2021 — said in response to a question from Republican Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy about potential communications with 'anyone higher up in the administration' regarding FERC’s recent pipeline policy proposal...IER President Tom Pyle said he was concerned the commission was employing delaying tactics to avoid complying with the information request in a letter to Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Joe Manchin and Ranking Member John Barrasso on May 25. 'I am concerned about an apparent lack of transparency at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,' he wrote to the senators on May 25. 'Despite FERC’s own tracking numbers indicating its FOIA officer is not overburdened, and despite a history of being a remarkably timely processor of FOIA requests, FERC has failed to offer even the most basic required information in response to any of IER’s FOIA requests,' Pyle continued. 'FERC has instead offered what appear to be delaying tactics.'"

"The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor."

– General Gordon Granger

Show trials and blacklists? This all seems vaguely familiar...

City Journal (6/17/22) op-ed: "President Biden has deputized White House climate-change advisor Gina McCarthy to snuff out reckless talk on global warming. McCarthy, speaking at a virtual event hosted June 9 by Axios, said it is time for social media companies to crack down on climate 'disinformation' online. But however wrong, damaging, and mendacious climate-change alarmists like New York magazine columnist David Wallace-Wells and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may be, they deserve, like anyone else, the freedom to say their piece. Though such figures have certainly misled Americans with their doomsday predictions, their right to expression ought not to be infringed. McCarthy has stepped beyond her mandate by overzealously seeking to keep climate debate within approved guardrails. I jest, of course. It is not the exaggerations from Ocasio-Cortez or Wallace-Wells that find themselves in the crosshairs of the White House. Biden’s climate attack dog is hounding good-faith challenges to the administration’s policy recommendations and skeptical arguments about the viability of a renewables-only energy policy."

When do "experts" stop being experts?

Belgium hit by energy protests. It’s time to get serious about energy security. Will Biden listen?

Reuters (6/20/22) reports: "round 70,000 Belgian workers marched through Brussels on Monday demanding government action to tackle sharply rising living costs, as one-day strikes at Brussels Airport and on local transport networks nationwide brought public travel to a near-halt. Protesters carried flags and banners reading "More respect, higher wages" and "End excise duty", while some set off flares. Some demanded the government do more, others said employers needed to improve pay and working conditions...Belgian inflation hit 9% in June, mirroring sharp rises elsewhere driven primiarly by the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on supply chains and energy and commodity prices...Prime Minister Alexander De Croo said Belgian workers were better protected than counterparts in most other European Union countries because wages were indexed to inflation. He told public broadcaster RTBF the government had extended sales tax breaks on gas, electricity and fuel until the end of the year."

Energy Markets

WTI Crude Oil: ↓ $109.50
Natural Gas: ↓ $6.72
Gasoline: ↓ $4.98

Diesel: ↓ $5.81
Heating Oil: ↑ $443.65
Brent Crude Oil: ↑ $113.24
US Rig Count: ↑ 820

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