…Covid lockdowns of spring 2020, and then jumped again after last year’s winter storm Uri froze off Gulf Coast refining, our commercial crude oil supplies as of this March 11th…

…the five year average of distillates inventories for this time of the year…  Meanwhile, after this week’s big release of crude from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve, our commercial supplies of crude…

…commercial crude supplies for the 5th time in 7 weeks. For the 19th time over the past 31 weeks our imports of crude oil fell by an average of 228,000 barrels per day…

…at a coffee-and-donuts meeting hosted by the Republican Party chapter in Kent County, Michigan, the most populous county on the west side of the state. Dressed in a candidate-casual uniform…

…classic, maybe the classic rookie error when talking about the federal budget, imagining that foreign aid is a significant expense: Surveys consistently show that the public believes that foreign aid is around 25 percent…

…could well cause further harm. Barney Frank has written a letter to the so-called ‘supercommittee’ asking that they include the risk-based bank fee assessible against ‘too big to fail’ banks…

…issue. Historically, during and following tax hikes tax collections /GDP rise. During and following tax cuts, tax collections fall. (How a fact so basic that even a child could observe…

…stimulus will pass congress. I think a proposal to send a $500 check to every US citizen containing family would pass congress. In particular some allegedly Democratic Senators (cough Conrad)…

…Fox and the Cattle, NYT, today I was happy, when I read that column this morning, to see that people are catching on to this rightwing “stick-the-label-’freedom’-onto-whatever-we-want-to-do” thing–this is very…

…label dates to the George W. Bush era, specifically 2003 when the late Charles Krauthammer, a supporter of W. upset by widespread criticism apparently coined the term “Bush Derangement Syndrome”…