David Blackmon

Big Earnings By Big Oil Set The Stage For Post-War Recovery

A good way to think of this week’s earnings reports by four big oil majors is a test of competing…

3 days ago

Amazon Knows What Really Powers The AI Boom — And It Isn’t Wind And Solar

For years, Amazon has been one of corporate America’s key poster children for climate virtue signaling. No company in the…

1 week ago

Trump’s Refinery DPA Gambit Is The Right Move At The Right Time

No president can order a new refinery into existence. Not even Joe Biden’s autopen could accomplish that. But a president…

2 weeks ago

Healey’s ‘Energy Emergency’ Follows The Classic Democrat Playbook

Democratic Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey’s recent declaration of an “energy emergency,” issued less than a month before Election Day, is less…

2 weeks ago

2026 Is The Gasoline Price Election, Not The Data Center Election

In mid-September, former president Barack Obama urged Democrat party candidates to seize on the issues surrounding data centers as the…

3 weeks ago

Trump’s Diesel Deal Could Buy Some Time But Leaves The Long-Term Problem Unaddressed

Diesel prices are undeniably a national headache in the United States in general and for the Trump administration in particular.…

3 weeks ago

Trump’s Dyed Diesel Order Provides Common Sense Relief, For Now

President Donald Trump signed a new executive order on Monday designed to provide immediate, direct relief from high diesel prices…

4 weeks ago

Dear Congress: Don’t Make America’s Diesel A Hostage To Your Election Year Politics

Farm state Republicans are in a panic, and it’s hard to blame them. Less than two months before Election Day…

1 month ago

Did President Trump Just Set Up A New Opening To China?

President Donald Trump appeared to some observers to reverse his previous posture related to Chinese encroachment into the United States…

2 months ago

Democrats Mask Their Climate Agenda — For Now

Faced with the general craziness stemming from voters’ decisions to nominate far-left radical DSA candidates to represent the party in…

2 months ago

Uncle Sam’s Aggressive Rare Earth Dealmaking Strikes A Chord Overseas

In June of 2021, President Joe Biden announced that his administration would mount a “whole of government” effort to secure…

2 months ago

It Is Absurd To Think China Will Ever Abandon Coal

Since the approval of the Paris Climate Agreement in 2015 by every nation on earth except the United States, the…

2 months ago

It’s A Huge Rare Metal Discovery For America, But Claiming The Prize Isn’t So Easy

Nevada’s Railroad Valley is home to a tungsten deposit that could be the largest ever found in the United States.…

3 months ago

Detroit Gets Front Row Seat To China’s Slow Execution Of German Auto

Germany’s once-mighty auto industry is trembling under pressure that strikes at the heart of that country’s national psyche. Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz…

3 months ago

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…

3 months ago