David Blackmon

Lawfare’s Fingerprints Are All Over National Academies’ Landmark Climate Report

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine just released a major report on extreme event attribution science, the increasingly trendy climate…

1 week ago

When OPEC Quotas Don’t Matter Anymore

Lost in much of the discussion about the current global deficit of crude oil is a new reality that had…

2 weeks ago

New Houthi Threat Makes Future Of Oil Prices Look Even Uglier

Oil prices are surging again amid renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran that has again halted tanker traffic via…

2 weeks ago

California’s Loss Is Texas’ Gain … Again

Reinvigorating America’s shipbuilding capacity is a well-known urgent objective of Donald Trump’s second presidency. One company – drone ship maker…

3 weeks ago

Why New York’s Data Center Moratorium Feels All Too Familiar

Twelve years after former Gov. Andrew Cuomo imposed a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, New York is once again using state…

3 weeks ago

Socialist Candidates Want To Resurrect Green New Deal Corpse

Every time you think the energy policies pushed by the Democratic Party can’t possibly get any crazier, they go and…

4 weeks ago

Europeans Discover Simple Luxury As They Descend On US For World Cup

European soccer fans have descended on the United States for the World Cup in recent weeks, and many are discovering…

1 month ago

Chevron And Microsoft Chart A New Path To Power In Landmark Data Center Deal

In a move that could send the net-zero zealots scrambling for the smelling salts, Chevron announced this week that it…

1 month ago

Solar Doesn’t Use Much Farmland — Until You Define What ‘Much” Really Means

I have to admit that I laughed out loud – almost spewing coffee on my keyboard – Friday morning when…

2 months ago

US Natural Gas In A Dominant Position For Decades To Come

The U.S. Energy Information Administration dropped its latest Short-Term Energy Outlook this week, and the numbers clearly demonstrate that America’s…

2 months ago

Higher for Longer: Why Oil Prices Are Headed Higher Despite Current Headlines

Oil markets are funny things. Headlines scream one direction, but the fundamentals—those stubborn realities of supply, demand, and inventories—have a…

2 months ago

Energy Giants Warn Another Oil Price Spike Coming Soon

Leading executives at ExxonMobil and Chevron sounded an alarm during a recent Bernstein conference: Global oil inventories are plunging to…

2 months ago

Texas Leads a New Natural Gas Pipeline Boom

Texas is once again proving why it stands as America’s unrivaled energy powerhouse. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration…

2 months ago

Record Oil Deal’s Benefits Go Beyond Big Business

The Bureau of Land Management held a federal oil and gas lease sale in the Delaware Basin of southeastern New…

2 months ago

Cuba’s Officially Out Of Oil. Here’s What Happened

Cuba’s communist government confirmed on Friday what many of us predicted months ago: The island nation has officially run out…

3 months ago