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A Blue-Collar Worker Rages Against The Leftwing NGO Machine

A Blue-Collar Worker Rages Against The Leftwing NGO Machine

Finally, an American worker is fighting back against the leftwing billionaire-funded NGO machine trying to shut down an entire industry that puts food...

07.11.2026 9

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Data Centers Made Noise, But Gasoline And Diesel Prices Decided The Midterms

Data Centers Made Noise, But Gasoline And Diesel Prices Decided The Midterms

Two weeks before Election Day, I wrote here that the 2026 midterm elections would turn out to be the “gasoline prices are too damn high” election,...

04.11.2026 8

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

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 corporate strategies. Two U.S.-based companies...

31.10.2026 10

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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 country has contracted for...

28.10.2026 10

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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 and his energy secretary...

24.10.2026 10

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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...

21.10.2026 10

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Tax-Free Diesel for Farmers and Truckers Through the End of the Year Thanks to Trump

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

18.10.2026 7

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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 centerpiece of...

17.10.2026 10

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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. Recent American...

14.10.2026 10

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With Isaias, Nature Renders Policymaker Efforts To Impact Gas Prices Futile

For U.S. drivers, it’s a case of the old adage, “when it rains, it pours.” After one of the quietest hurricane seasons on record, Hurricane...

10.10.2026 30

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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 for farmers and...

07.10.2026 10

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Climate Lawfare Rings In Monday’s Supreme Court Session

When the U.S. Supreme Court gavels in for its 2026-27 term on Monday, it will hear oral arguments in one of the key energy cases in recent years. It...

03.10.2026 10

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An MLB Park In The Tetons? Yeah, That’s Not Happening

If you want to understand why President Donald Trump is so frustrated with the fake news emanating from the nation’’ legacy media platforms,...

30.09.2026 300

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Why Even A Temporary Diesel Export Ban Is A Bad Idea

Energy analysts spent much of the past week laying out all the reasons why a presidential ban on exports of diesel fuel is a no good, terrible, very...

26.09.2026 10

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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 on Nov. 3, diesel prices are at...

23.09.2026 20

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Qatar’s LNG Loss Is America’s Gain

Cheniere Energy completed Stage 3 of its massive Corpus Christi LNG facility on August 28, 2026, marking the latest major expansion of America’s...

19.09.2026 20

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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 auto industry...

16.09.2026 20

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What Happens With The US-Venezuela Oil Deal After 2028?

What happens with the U.S.-Venezuela oil deal announced last week after the 2028 presidential election is decided? That’s the question many in the...

05.09.2026 10

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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 congressional...

02.09.2026 20

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America’s Greatest Show On Earth — Counted In Barrels Of Venezuelan Crude

There are oil deals, and then there are mega-oil deals. We’ve seen many examples of mega-deals in the past: Exxon buying Mobil and Chevron gobbling...

29.08.2026 20

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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 U.S. supplies and...

26.08.2026 30

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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 ever-compliant global media has...

22.08.2026 40

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Chris Wright’s Latest Quest Shows America Needs More Refineries

Energy Secretary Chris Wright met with executives from refining companies on Monday to explore ways the Trump administration could help them boost...

19.08.2026 30

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Study Seeks To Punish AI Companies For Their Excellence

Just when you think the climate alarm industry could not possibly get any more absurd than it has already become, they go and prove you wrong again....

15.08.2026 30

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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. Developer 3 Proton Lithium (3PL)...

12.08.2026 30

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Are American Auto Giants Ready For What’s Coming?

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

08.08.2026 30

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Can This New CEO Save BP From Its Own Past?

Amid a series of record and near-record profits being reported by the world’s corporate major integrated oil companies, venerable British major BP...

05.08.2026 20

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Lost In The Iran Noise: American Energy Leadership Still Matters

Lost in the breathless media coverage of Iran and the Strait of Hormuz is a critical reality that too many politicians, activists and talking heads...

01.08.2026 30

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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...

29.07.2026 30

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When OPEC Quotas Don’t Matter Anymore

Lost in much of the discussion about the current global deficit of crude oil is a new reality that had been brewing for some time even before the Iran...

25.07.2026 30

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New Houthi Threat Makes Future Of Oil Prices Look Even Uglier

Oil prices are surging again amid renewed fighting between the U.S. and Iran that has again halted tanker traffic via the Strait of Hormuz. The U.S....

22.07.2026 30

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Socialist Candidates Want To Resurrect Green New Deal Corpse

Every time you think the energy policies pushed by the Democratic Party can’t possibly get any crazier, they go and fool you again.

10.07.2026 30

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America’s Energy Dominance: The Fruit Of Freedom On Our 250th

'Energy wealth'

04.07.2026 30

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Trump Continues Dismantling Biden’s Offshore Wind Dreams

'Wind fiasco'

02.07.2026 30

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Europeans Discover Simple Luxury As They Descend On US For World Cup

'Contrast with America could not be clearer'

27.06.2026 30

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Chevron And Microsoft Chart New Path To Power In Landmark Data Center Deal

'Green fever dreamers'

23.06.2026 60

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Solar Doesn’t Use Much Farmland — Until You Define What ‘Much’ Really Means

'Laughed out loud'

21.06.2026 30

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Why The Iran Peace Deal Is Really An Oil Deal

The peace deal between the U.S. and Iran is, at its heart, an oil deal.

16.06.2026 40

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US Natural Gas In A Dominant Position For Decades To Come

'Transatlantic divergence'

15.06.2026 30

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Higher For Longer: Why Oil Prices Are Headed Higher Despite Recent Headlines

'Stubborn realities reassert themselves'

10.06.2026 40

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Exxon, Chevron Warn Another Oil Price Spike Coming Soon

'Painful reminder of global interdependence'

05.06.2026 40

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How Texas Leads The New Natural Gas Pipeline Boom

'Unrivaled energy powerhouse'

30.05.2026 40

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BP Chairman’s Ouster Is Corporate Self Sabotage At Its Finest

'A struggling giant'

27.05.2026 30

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Record Oil Deal’s Benefits Go Beyond Big Business

'Lesson to policymakers'

23.05.2026 30

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Cuba’s Officially Out Of Oil. Here’s What Happened

'Future of the Americas'

17.05.2026 50

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Iran War’s Shockwaves Haven’t Fully Arrived Just Yet. But They’re Coming.

Wake up call?

13.05.2026 40

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The Harsh Reality Everyone’s Missing About Massive Lithium Find In Appalachia

'Irrational exuberance'

06.05.2026 50

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California Copied Europe’s Insane Energy Playbook, And Now Residents Are Really Paying The Price

'Expensive warnings'

02.05.2026 40

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What The UAE’s OPEC Breakup Actually Signifies

'Donroe doctrine'

29.04.2026 40

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DAVID BLACKMON: Trump DPA Orders Shift Energy Dominance Agenda Into High Gear

American Energy Dominance

22.04.2026 40

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