Rarely do I have a day that something about the Bakken does not surprise me.
But today, it's even more exciting than usual. I try to post links to interesting stories I read in my hard copy of The Wall Street Journal, the only print media to which I subscribe. If you are at all interested in the Bakken, you need to read the articles at the links below that concern oil. They are really quite remarkable. Over the weekend, I connected the dots from several different stories, coming across something that I have not seen posted elsewhere ... until today. And even today, it's a bit subtle, without a graphic, or with out a map. Suffice it to say, there are some exciting things going on in the North American oil patch. I am referring to the "Heard on the Street Article, Buffett's lesson for Canadian oil" article linked below. But that is just one of several very, very interesting stories on oil today.
Most coincidental was the RBN Energy link on Brent pricing today, and the WSJ article on the same subject: Brent pricing. Both are linked below.
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The "wind article" was sent to me by a reader, reported by Bloomberg. Thank you. Again, the article points out that there is no redeeming value for these slicers and dicers.
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Time to "buy oil"? Oh, yeah. -- Yahoo!Finance - Breakout.
WSJ Links
Section D (Personal Journal):
- Good news for some: once banned, silicone breast implants make a comeback
- Music: the unflinching Ashley Monroe; songs as daring now as Loretta Lynn's were back in the 1960s.
- LA in a day -- by bike: six hours; 32 miles; 2,000 calories;
- Brent barrels to prominence; nice story to go along with the current RBN Energy series on Brent pricing:
- Buffett's lesson for Canadian oil, heard on the street: great, great article. Note the reference to Quebec, and the St Lawrence Seaway which I posted a couple days ago; that may have been the best story I posted in the past several weeks.
- 787 probe narrows its focus
- Best photo of the day at "meet the new mobile workers"; yes, that's an iPad; MDW blogged about this two years ago, maybe longer; might have been on the original blog; regardless, a most pleasant photograph; the photograph/story is opposite a full-;age BlackBerry ad -- the story will do more than the ad;
- US refiners tap Canadian oil by rail;
- Obama's Capitol Hill foray; for a "grand bargain," the president needs to convince his own party; good luck; won't happen
- I guess if North Korea declares war truce 'invalid,' we're back to war; no link; story everywhere; so much white noise. A bigger story is the 3,300 dead pigs that were found in the river that supplies water to Shanghai (China); no link; the blurb says it all
- Op-ed: the ethanol gas-pump surcharge; the 2007 mandate is needlessly raising US gasoline prices; unfortunately, the WSJ does not get it; this is what the Obama administration wants; the only way folks will give up their cars is to price them out of gasoline; is it even worth linking? Is it even worth reading? Must have been a slow news day for the journal yesterday.
- About that baby who was 'cured' of HIV; the baby was treated to an exposure to the virus; the baby did not have the disease
enjoy your blog . But, your links to like wsj do not open if a person is not a subscriber to . Gary
ReplyDeleteThat may be. I don't know. I know I have never logged on to the Wall Street Journal on-line (or if I have it was some time ago, and I've forgotten).
DeleteI just went to one of the WSJ links and it took me to the full story, and the WSJ said I was not logged in, but yet I was able to see the story.
I do know if one is not logged in, the WSJ has three peculiarities as it were, which have affected me:
1) some stories are available to all without logging in
2) one can access a fair number of stories through "google reader/news" before WSJ stops access -- in the past it's been about eight stories
3) sometimes my links require subscription, but then when I search again, I find a slightly different URL and and it requires no subscription.
But that is strange that the WSJ says I am not logged in and yet, the links (via "google reader" seem to work). I was not logged in when linking these articles. I read the hard copy and then type in the headline into the URL space on my Firebox browser; I don't even go through the extra step of clicking on google.
The good news: one is probably not missing much.
Try this: copy the words that in the link to where one usually places the URL, and then hit return. I don't use Google. I simply type in the headline into the URL white space and hit return. Using Firefox browser. But I'm not logged into WSJ. But I do know its squirrely.