Energy needs around the world, ranging from limited supplies from Russia and Iran and anticipated higher demand from China drove crude oil prices higher on Tuesday. The small amounts of oil coming from Iran and Russia are due in part to U.S. sanctions against the two countries. Here’s what happened. U.S. benchmark West Texas …
Oklahoma officials who targeted BlackRock a few years ago with the creation and adoption of the Oklahoma Energy Discrimination Elimination Act might consider revisiting the 2022 law, also known as House Bill 3034. On the other hand, the creators of the act might also be slapping themselves on the back, taking credit for applying …
Why not have a little fun with the severe weather. It’s what Oklahoma Climatologist Gary McManus does every day in his Mesonet weather updates and his Tuesday report is no different. So what about his Braum’s DEFCON weather rating? “I put the 1 down in far SE OK because the Shreveport NWS Office that …
This week’s snowfall in Washington, D.C. reminded me of the late U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma. Who could forget the time he carried a snowball onto the floor of the U.S. Senate as part of his campaign against “Climate Change” or “Global warming” claims of environmentalists. This from the Oklahoman who even authored …
Taking a cue from a wounded Donald Trump’s “fight, fight, fight” rallying cry after he was wounded by a sniper last year, Oklahoma Rep. Molly Jenkins told a “Stop the Green” rally at the state capitol Tuesday, “This fight is far from over—fight, fight, fight!” It brought cheers and applause from those who gathered …
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond plans to join a lawsuit filed by 15 other Republican attorneys general who sued to challenge the energy efficiency standards of a 1990 housing Act. Drummond was not among the originally attorneys general who went to federal court challenging a section of the Cranston-Gonzalez Act of 1990, claiming its …
** Electric utilities serving the Northeast ask federal regulators to enact gas pipeline reliability requirements to ensure power plants have enough fuel to keep the lights on. ** The Pentagon announces plans to blacklist Chinese company CATL, the world’s largest EV battery maker that supplies Tesla and is partnering with Ford on a $3.5 billion Michigan battery plant. …
Electric vehicle owners in Kanas who thought they could get continued tax credits under a 1995 law were caught unaware after the credit was sabotaged by amendments to the law. The Kansas Reflector reports individuals with EVs are no longer allowed to claim the tax break but corporations can. A state audit revealed that …
A report from the U.S. Energy Information Administration points out how U.S. gasoline prices were more than 20 cents lower in 2024 compared to the previous year. As Oklahoma prices average $2.56 per gallon this week, the EIA stated the U.S. retail price for regular grade gasoline averaged $3.30 per gallon (gal) in 2024, …
Could Ukraine’s recent action to finally stop the flow of Russian gas through GazProm, the gas line that crosses the war-torn country and into Europe, have an impact on Oklahoma? It’s just a question of speculation. Some observers have already called it “one of Moscow’s biggest defeats” by Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky, but not …
