Oil Prices: give Stephen Moore some credit Moore rightfully criticized a USA Today headline “Oil Prices Hit Highest Since Sept. 1990” and has been saying that we should look at…
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Paul Ryan and Scott Walker Come Out for Repeal of Federal Child-Labor Laws, Because the Kids Insist. Coming soon: Talking polar bears pleading for more oil drilling.
…Julie Boonstra and Emilie Lamb. What’s next? Talking polar bears pleading for more oil drilling? **** As an aside, I think that if Walker is serious about running for president,…
Speaking of Jimmy Carter and Energy
Of course Carter’s approach to dealing with energy did not consist only with eliminating the insane regulation keeping US crude oil prices below world crude oil prices. Totally aside from…
Markets Slipping…
…Profits are down amongst oil producers but up elsewhere in the economy. However, if oil prices were higher, we would probably have seen the opposite… profits up amongst oil producers…
Norway’s Climate Dilemma
Norway’s Climate Dilemma Carlos Joly, a finance-and-climate consultant, has a piece today on the upcoming election in Norway, one of the world’s major exporters of oil and gas. To its credit,…
Sherman Act v. Modern Conglomerate Agriculture
…assistance program, SNAP, which has further carved these companies into the bedrock of America. The Sherman Act In 1911 Standard Oil controlled upwards of 80% of the oil market, energy….
December Trade Deficit Up 1.8%, 27% for 2021
…foods, feeds, and beverages fell by $760 million to $15,705 million on decreases in imports of meat & meat products, food oils & oilseeds, and several other food and beverage…
Snippets of News Worth Reading and their Backup
…poll done March 18-24 by WebMD. “Congress’s “war profiteering” debate with Big Oil misses the point,” Quartz Top executives from ExxonMobil, Chevron, and other US oil companies are testifying in…
Oh, The Camus Of It All
…Even they in their anachronism understood the need to look beyond oil; understood that oil was a fast sinking sunken investment. They, in spite of their ignorance and backwardness, understood…
Inflation
…was $3/gal before the invasion and of that the cost of crude oil accounted for ½ of that $3, or $1.50/gal. When crude oil went up 30%, the cost of…
