Random Update On Marcellus / Utica -- The Energy And Market Page, T+215 -- August 23, 2017 -- Making America Great

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One Last Reminder

The America the Beautiful pass gives seniors age 62 and older access to federal recreational lands for a lifetime. The pass costs $10, but the price will jump to $80 starting Monday, August 28, 2017.

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Closing Out Two Polls

North Dakota first produced 1 million bbls of crude oil in April, 2014. How readers voted:

• April, 2017: 2% (probably joking or living under the Geico rock
• April, 2016: 20%
• April, 2015: 39% 
• April, 2014 -- the correct answer -- 18%
• April, 2013: 20%

The second poll: although it will be a year or so before we know whether Sempra's bid to buy Oncor's "pipes and wires" is successful, at the moment, Sempra won, Buffett lost. How readers voted:

• Buffett wins: 15%
• Buffett loses: 26%
• Who cares: 59%