August, 2017, EV Sales Have Been Posted -- Complete List -- September 6, 2017

Typos: I will correct several typos on earlier posts later. They are simply minor typos; I normally correct typos overnight as I find them but I got caught up in watching YouTube music videos and never got around to business. Whatever.

Syria: mainstream media not covering much of the war against ISIS in the mideast but it certainly seems things have changed in the last six months. I follow these events here.

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Now, Back To The Bakken And Related News

Active rigs:

$49.21↑	9/6/2017	09/06/2016	09/06/2015	09/06/2014	09/06/2013
Active Rigs	56	33	75	196	185

RBN Energy: forecasted US gas supply growth to face market reality.

Fracking halted in Western Australia, to probe risks. Data points:

• joins Northern Territory, New South Wales, and Tasmania -- have moratoriums
• Western Australia decision was core element of the state's center-left Labor Party
• moratorium will freeze more than A$380 million in investment
• the blocks come despite a growing gas supply crisis in Australia, where a large portion of supply in the continent's east is drawn from coal seam developments

EPA: four-hundred workers leave "in recent days." -- The WSJ. Data points:

• voluntary buyouts (these folks will simply find other government jobs)
• Trump proposes a 31% funding cut (won't happen)
• voluntary buyouts offered to 1,200 workers
• two years ago: EPA had 15,500 employees
• could reach 14,400 employees if more take buyouts; additional retirees
• 14,000 clipboard bureaucrats

EV sales for August: the list is complete.  My original post on August sales is here.

Nissan Leaf to compete directly with Tesla Model 3. From The WSJ

Nissan said the car would go on sale in Japan on Oct. 2 and in the U.S. and Europe in January. When it goes on sale in the U.S. the vehicle will start at $29,990, slightly less expensive than the current Leaf.

With bulked-up battery power, the Leaf will go 150 miles on a single charge, according to the company, up from 107 miles in the previous version. It also plans to introduce a version in the next year with a range of more than 300 miles.

From the article:

Along with the Nissan Leaf article, The WSJ re-posted this story: the problem with electric cars? Not enough chargers. To hit its sales targets, Tesla has to sell 430,000 cars by the end of 2018 and 10,000 a week after that—but where are they all going to plug in? The other problem, of course, stopping every 150 miles on a cross-country trip to re-charge for 30 minutes -- waiting in line for an hour or more. Just saying.