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Energy Policy

TGIFriday Morning Open Thread: Stand Proud

by Anne Laurie|  September 8, 20236:40 am| 205 Comments

This post is in: 2024 Elections, Energy Policy, Grifters Gonna Grift, Our Failed Media Experiment, President Biden, Proud to Be A Democrat

holy shit this new Biden ad is good pic.twitter.com/Azat0U6e5o

— Florida Chris (@chrislongview) September 7, 2023

Republicans can only win office through an electoral college system that is a relic from slave owning days, gerrymandering, voter suppression, media stupidity, propaganda, and Russian interference. https://t.co/9OZzIr1G6J

— HawaiiDelilah™ 🟦 #MauiStrong (@HawaiiDelilah) September 8, 2023

Unless they're still entertaining primary fantasies, which is only a tad less delusional at this point.

— Not up for trouble, please stop asking (@agraybee) September 7, 2023

Our Failed Major Media, Part [X + infinity]…

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Funny he didn’t tell a print reporter so this very newsworthy thing could be told to the world.

Glad he got a big advance tho. Yay us? https://t.co/H18qQ4JIPO

— Clean Observer (@Hammbear2024) September 8, 2023

Kudos to Farrow for putting it in print in relatively quick fashion, rather than @WalterIsaacson, who held off vital, newsworthy information to buckrake with his book. For shame, Walter. https://t.co/nxO5GcAGGy

— Clean Observer (@Hammbear2024) September 7, 2023

doubling down on this prediction https://t.co/wTpYkJoGXO

— Joshua Erlich (@JoshuaErlich) September 7, 2023

Drone strikes on bitcoin servers should be legal. https://t.co/nrULo5gqxs

— Clean Observer (@Hammbear2024) September 7, 2023

Powerful. Unprecedented.

For the first time ever, a joint-statement was released by the presidential libraries of Obama, Bush 2, Clinton, Bush 1, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, LBJ, JFK, Truman, FDR & Hoover, sounding the alarm about the state of the U.S. https://t.co/dfpZaWswMr

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) September 7, 2023

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Friday Morning Open Thread: Blessed Ramadan

by Anne Laurie|  April 1, 20228:53 am| 142 Comments

This post is in: Biden Administration in Action, Energy Policy, Open Threads, Religion


To those who observe, may your fast be uncomplicated and your prayers rewarding!

Far less elevated, but also important:

President Joe Biden launched the largest release ever from the U.S. emergency oil reserve and challenged oil companies to drill more in an attempt to bring down gasoline prices that have soared during Russia's invasion of Ukraine https://t.co/UT1WNRTUEi pic.twitter.com/HExuKcwT2I

— Reuters (@Reuters) March 31, 2022

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Biden says U.S. oil companies sitting on record profits https://t.co/jQpsUTm6SX pic.twitter.com/sC2lJtAXfk

— Reuters (@Reuters) March 31, 2022

Biden admin wants effectively a use it or lose it clause in federal oil leases. The industry is probably going to kick up a fuss about any new restrictions, but this is widely how it’s done in contracts with private landowners – where the vast majority of production comes from. pic.twitter.com/yE3Einrbhx

— Justin Jacobs (@justinjfj) March 31, 2022

U.S. Senate approves bill to ease export shipping backlogs https://t.co/eLaWiYxm8C pic.twitter.com/Z4Vz2HMDew

— Reuters (@Reuters) April 1, 2022

Hot off the wire:

"The economy has recuperated more than 90 percent of the 22 million jobs lost at the peak of the pandemic’s impact on the economy in the spring of 2020 — a far swifter rebound than forecasters initially expected."

Thanks, President Biden.https://t.co/JHvpsQ8aHJ

— Charlotte Clymer ?️‍⚧️?? (@cmclymer) April 1, 2022

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Is this normal?

by David Anderson|  April 20, 20205:00 pm| 109 Comments

This post is in: Climate Change Solutions, Energy Policy, Open Threads

May oil futures are negative.  People are paying other people to figure out how to store May oil production contracts:

 

Is this normal? Negative May 2020 oil prices

Now might be a wonderful time to add a $0.50 or $1.00 per gallon gas tax.

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Thought Exercise On Renewable Energy

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  October 4, 201910:30 am| 35 Comments

This post is in: Energy Policy

Sorry about this morning’s OTR post, restoring my laptop’s hard drive after repair went long after I gave up and went to bed last night. I’ll post it Monday.

I’ve been pondering this renewable energy question off and on recently and figured I’d open it up to discussion to broaden my thinking.

The question is: if you pay a surcharge for renewable energy from your electricity provider, is it better to then be wasteful or at least a “big consumer” of that clean electricity in order to increase demand for clean electricity and thus spurring more investment in renewables, or should you try to be as energy-conscious as possible and not leave lights on, keep the thermostat down/up, etc.?

In this scenario, the electricity that comes in your house is technically a mix of renewable and dirty, but you pay a surcharge to have clean energy equal to your usage added to your provider’s feed. If every customer chose this option, all the electricity provided to your home would be from renewable sources.

My thinking is that, since demand increases investment/supply, it’s desirable to consume more electricity once you’re setup to pay the premium as described above. More investment in renewable energy is a good and a larger supply/higher percentage renewable in the renewable/dirty mix that my provider supplies is also a good. So except for wasting some money, it seems to me like wasting electricity is actually a good here.

If your supply is already 100% renewable (from a provider, not your own solar/wind/etc.), I’m undecided if it makes sense to be a “big consumer” or not.  Again, increasing demand means more investment in supply in your locality and region, and provides the market/investors evidence that such demand might exist in other under-served areas. Since a major goal of us who pay the surcharge for renewable or are willing to pay higher rates or invest in infrastructure like solar is to make a better, carbon-free world, there, perversely, seems to be a clear incentive to be wasteful here too. But I’m not sure.

 

What think you?

 

 

Consider this a non-political open thread.

 

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A little good news

by David Anderson|  June 26, 20197:04 am| 48 Comments

This post is in: Climate Change Solutions, Energy Policy, Open Threads

Wow. For the first time ever, renewables are a bigger contributor to U.S. energy than coal https://t.co/WgQYXKTy9T pic.twitter.com/pjleiCnz9Q

— Joe Weisenthal (@TheStalwart) June 26, 2019

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A Rare Victory Against Corporate Power in West Virginia

by John Cole|  June 5, 20199:48 pm| 25 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Energy Policy

This is nice:

Natural gas producers in West Virginia no longer can drill on one person’s property to reach gas reserves under adjoining or neighboring tracts, the state Supreme Court said Wednesday in a much-anticipated ruling that gives additional leverage to residents struggling with the effects from the booming industry.

In a 5-0 ruling, the justices upheld a lower court ruling and jury verdict against EQT Corp., siding with two Doddridge County residents who had sued the state’s second-largest gas company.

Justice John Hutchison wrote that gas and other mineral companies must obtain permission from surface owners to use their land to reach reserves under other properties.

“The court will not imply a right to use a surface estate to conduct drilling or mining operations under neighboring lands,” Hutchison wrote. “The right must be expressly obtained, addressed, or reserved in the parties’ deeds, leases, or other writings.”

In the case, two people who live on a 300-acre farm in Doddridge County said EQT came onto their land to extract gas from underneath adjacent properties. The two people, Beth Crowder and David Wentz, warned EQT that the company would be trespassing. EQT entered the property anyway. Crowder and Wentz sued, and a local circuit judge ruled in their favor, and a jury two years ago awarded them nearly $200,000 in damages.

It’s insane that a company would be so brazen as to even take this to court, but, you know, West Virginia.

A Rare Victory Against Corporate Power in West VirginiaPost + Comments (25)

Another Storm Resource

by Cheryl Rofer|  September 11, 20187:28 pm| 163 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Energy Policy, Excellent Links, Open Threads, Science & Technology, Fowl Weather

The Energy Information Administration has an interactive map of energy infrastructure with storm information. It looks like something that energy nerds could spend some time with even when we’re not expecting major storm disruptions. The graphic at the top of the post is a screen grab. Check out the real thing. Also lots of useful links to energy information on the page.

Open thread, also too.

 

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