More oil from the Permian? Not so fast. The Trib has some of the obvious reasons why, not only that Wall Street lost its shirt on previous fracking, but that the oil patch also has its problem with supply chain shortages and the price of steel had sent drill stem costs into the the stratosphere. It doesn't mention what you'll find elsewhere, that many already-fracked sites are owned by the Wall Street investors who previously lost their shirts and see $100/bbl oil out of the current wells as a great way to recoup some of those losses. The piece is also wrong (I think) on claiming that Permian production has exceeded pre-pandemic levels. I know that statewide and national production has NOT.
Meanwhile, President Biden's explicit call Saturday night for regime change in Russia certainly won't help short-term oil prices. And, what's really going to be affected is diesel fuel, from what I've heard. Last week, Tom Kloza of Platt's says he expects it will go over $6 a gallon.
Off the Kuff writes about lawsuits filed by two abortion funds in Texas against SB8 aggressors.
SocrsticGadfly offers up a non-MSM obituary of Madeleine Albright.
Responsibility and moral hazard, family division. Yes, 14 isn't adulthood, but it isn't toddlerhood, either. Should the 14-year-old, who was 6-5 and 340 pounds, who died on the Icon ride in Orlando, be faulted in part, in addition to park members who let him in on that ride? I say yes. His father called him "bright" and an "honor student." The story also notes that multiple other rides at the park had rejected him on height/weight reasons.
The US District Court for the Western District of Texas has ruled that the lawsuit by Wendy Davis et al against the traffic-disrupting MAGAts, aka the Texas Trump Train lawsuit, can proceed. It said they violated the federal Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 as well as Texas state law.
Juanita sighs about having to fight the same fights from 50 years ago, but that won't stop her.
Siddharth Kurana lists the US counties with the largest populations of specific Asian ethnicities.
Jef Rouner presents six poisonous rap songs that spread disinformation and bigotry.
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