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As the hours ticked by and millions of Texans were plunged into frozen darkness, a more sober reality emerged: The greatest forced blackout in U.S. history, as this event has almost certainly become, was the result of a systemic and multifaceted failure.

Wait, are we to believe rascally liberals snuck into Texas and overhauled the state's energy policies while Republicans weren't paying attention?

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending February 5th indicated that the amount of natural gas held in underground storage in the US fell by 171 billion cubic feet to 2,518 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 9 billion cubic feet, or 0.4% below the 2,527 billion cubic feet that were in storage on February 5th of last year, and 152 billion cubic feet, or 6.4% above the five-year average of 2,366 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have...

Why the massive power outages in Texas are so much worse than Californias summer blackouts FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 People wait in line at a mall to get inside an H-E-B supermarket in Round Rock, Texas, on February 16, 2021. Millions were left without power as a deadly winter storm gripped the southern and central United States Tuesday. Hardest hit was Texas, where freezing conditions prompted utility companies to implement rotating blackouts to stop the power grid being overloaded by the surg...

Texas lawmakers have denounced Bidens energy moves, but experts say they could benefit the state A global push toward a cleaner climate and safer environment has not kept Texas lawmakers from criticizing Biden February 10, 2021 11:25PM (UTC) US President Joe Biden signs three documents including an Inauguration declaration, cabinet nominations and sub-cabinet noinations in the Presidents Room at the US Capitol after the inauguration ceremony to making Biden the 46th President of the United Stat...

Blog Blog PODCAST Blog 10 Feb, 2021 Author Allison GoodGaurang Dholakia Large-scale oil and gas M&A deal-making got a boost in January from a pair of billion-dollar acquisitions by New Fortress Energy Inc., according to S&P Global Market Intelligence data. During the month, the sector announced 37 whole-company and minority-stake deals, compared to 27 in January 2020. The combined value of the January 2021 deals soared year over year from $616 million...

HOUSTON — Surrounded by refineries and chemical plants that make up the Houston Ship Channel, the Republican leader of the U.S. House stood last week along what he called “one of America’s success stories.” A cadre of Texans in Congress flanked U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy of California to continue a campaign of criticisms they’ve lobbed at President Joe Biden’s climate-focused agenda.

Source: S&P Global Market Intelligence Market forces, investor sentiment and existing policies have driven the decline of the U.S. coal fleet in recent years and will likely continue to prompt closures, but the last of the power plants may remain online well past the next decade without policy interventions. Many utilities have pledged to hit net-zero emissions targets at some point, but details are lacking in the public sphere. U.S. President Joe Biden aims to decarbonize the power sector by ...

Listener Daniel K sent me a great story coming out of Oregon!

By Sam Rosalie Listener Daniel K sent me a great story coming out of Oregon! Michael Webber and his team of vaccine administers were on their way to administer their last doses, when they hit some major traffic. Roads closed due to an accident, leaving them probably stuck for hours, and they didn’t have long before their batch of vaccines expired. Thankfully, Michael had a great idea- instead of tossing the 6 vaccines, he trekked through the snow and knocked on the windows of other stuck dri...