DAVID BLACKMON: Fossil Fuels Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon
Every year, ExxonMobil Global OutlookThe company detailed its outlook for the future of oil, natural gas and other forms of energy. Key findings The company's global outlook for 2024, released on Monday, includes: All energy types remain mixed. Renewable energy will grow most rapidly. The largest decline will be in coal. In any credible scenario, […]
DAVID BLACKMON: Two Years On, The IRA Is Exactly What Its Critics Said It Would Become
in Recent InterviewsSecretary General of the World Energy Council Angela Wilkinson She told me that one of the main obstacles to the energy transition today is a lack of what she calls “systems thinking.” “The energy transition is a change in the social fabric,” she noted, “It’s not as simple as replacing one technology with […]
DAVID BLACKMON: Newsom’s Done It Again – Chevron Picks Up Its Headquarters And Heads To Texas
Former President of the United States speaking to political opponents in Tennessee in 1836 Congressman Davy Crockett famous I told them“You’re all going to hell and I’m going to Texas.” Chevron CEO Mike Worth He didn’t say that explicitly to California Gov. Gavin Newsom and other state officials this week. He approved Relocating his office […]
Vikings’ Mekhi Blackmon suffers season-ending ACL injury
Just a few days into training camp, the Vikings secondary has already taken a big hit. Cornerback Mekhi Blackmon injured his knee during the team’s first training camp practice on Wednesday, with NFL Network reporter Tom Pelissero reporting the second-year defensive back suffered a torn anterior cruciate ligament. According to ESPN:Blackmon sustained the injury during […]
DAVID BLACKMON: Trump’s 1,000 Words About Energy
As a person who spent 40 years doing policy and government affairs work in the oil and gas industry, I have always paid close attention to what presidential nominees of both parties have to say — or do not say — about energy in their acceptance speeches. The vast majority of the time, it has […]
DAVID BLACKMON: The Truth About Houston’s Power Outages
Hurricane Beryl Crossed Texas This week, the eastern half of the most intense storms have hit Houston, the state’s largest population and industrial center, with a metropolitan area of some 6 million residents. That was on Monday and Tuesday, and as we neared the end of the work week, people in the media were wondering […]
DAVID BLACKMON: Bonfire Of The E-Vanities: Bankrupt EV Start-Up Fire-Selling Remaining Inventory
Hey, want a cheap Fisker Ocean EV? Want a bunch of them? All you need is $2,500 in cash for a few hundred of Fisker’s remaining inventory of damaged Ocean SUVs, and they are yours! Bankrupt pure-play battery electric-vehicle maker Fisker, desperate to raise cash to keep what remains of its operations open as it goes […]
DAVID BLACKMON: Returning Trump To The White House Would Reverse Biden’s ‘Energy Ideocracy’
With a second term for former President Donald Trump suddenly seeming far more likely in the wake of President Joe Biden’s shocking debate performance, the decision by a Louisiana federal judge Monday to place a hold on the Biden Energy Department’s bizarre “pause” on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) permitting highlights a clear example of how […]
DAVID BLACKMON: Supreme Court Delivers Crushing Haymaker To The Permanent Bureaucracy
Over the past three and a half years, I have advised clients and colleagues to cool their jets about the inevitability of globalist elites succeeding in forcing a rapid, premature transition away from an oil, natural gas and coal-based energy system to one based on subsidized alternatives like wind, solar and electric vehicles. The reason […]
DAVID BLACKMON: US EV Industry Shifts Back Into Reality Gear
At the start of each year, I write a piece in which I make a set of predictions about what will happen in the energy space during the coming 12 months. One prediction I made in this year’s story focused on the likelihood of a big fallout in America’s EV manufacturing industry. Citing Fisker and Rivian as […]