A mild weather outlook pushed U.S. gas futures to a more-than-two-week low while oil and European gas stayed expensive. Cheaper gas is only part of your bill, and America’s storage cushion is thinner than it looks. Here’s some welcome news as the furnace season starts. U.S. natural gas futures slipped below $3 on Tuesday. The […]
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Washington spent billions to put wind, solar and batteries on the grid, and the biggest wave yet is arriving right as the tax credits run out. Here is what the data says about your bill, what it does not say, and why grid stability is the question to watch. By Stuart Turley, host of the […]
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On October 19, 2026, the U.S. Department of Energy announced it will use up to $42 million in Defense Production Act (DPA) Title III funding to advance the long-stalled Constitution Pipeline. The 125-mile natural gas line would move up to 650,000 dekatherms per day of Marcellus Shale gas from northeastern Pennsylvania into New York, connecting […]
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AI data centers, LNG tankers and the power plants that keep your lights on all want more of the same molecules. The gas is there, but the pipes, the winter weather, competitive price points, capacity/transportation availability and the rules decide who gets it, and at what price. A Special Edition on demand, supply, grid risk, […]
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Where your diesel dollar goes: the refiner’s slice of a gallon has roughly tripled in a year. Valero reports Thursday, and Wall Street expects about $21 a share. By Energy News Beat | Monday, Oct. 19, 2026 | Prices as of 6:28 a.m. CT unless noted If you topped off a 30-gallon diesel pickup this […]
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On Thursday, the International Energy Agency agreed to accelerate the release of more than 20 million barrels of diesel, with no timeline. By our math, that is about 17 hours of world demand, or five days of U.S. use. Emergency barrels help, but they do not build refineries. – The key is whether they actually […]
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Diesel is $6.30 a gallon, $2.64 more than a year ago. The International Energy Agency now says the world’s diesel shortage runs “well into 2027.” We checked three clocks, the futures market, the government forecast and the IEA, to estimate how long $6 diesel can hang on, and who pays while it does. Our answer, […]
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Pacific Gas and Electric is warning customers that it may implement Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS) starting Friday afternoon, October 9, 2026, and extending through the weekend into Monday as dry, gusty winds raise wildfire risk across parts of Northern and Central California. Local reporting citing PG&E notifications puts the potential scope at about 12,200 […]
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Crude is moving again through the Strait of Hormuz. The fuel Americans actually buy is not. That is the gap David Blackmon flags in his October 7 Forbes piece, “Oil Is Flowing Again But Gasoline, Diesel Prices Aren’t Cooperating,” and the data behind it explain why pump prices remain stuck near records even as headlines […]
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The likely first hurricane of 2026 is forecast to cross deepwater fields that pump about 15% of U.S. crude and reach the coast late Friday. The latest NHC track has shifted east toward Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, which lowers the odds for the Mississippi River refining corridor. It does not take Pascagoula, the Colonial […]
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