Never Expected To See Either Of These Stories -- March 11, 2019

OXY: #1 exporter of US shale crude oil.

Contractors, not employees: ruling by the 5th Circuit Court. Some common sense.

Related:

• Uber, Lyft: I lost the bubble on this one. But then a month later.

Unrelated:

• ISO New England, link here. There are going to be some high utility bills this month -- a huge non-regressive tax imposed on middle class and poor alike while elites continue to push for renewable energy. Another spike to more than $200/MWh -- and this is almost mid-March.

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Skiing 

Just in time for spring break, the Kennedy clan is flying out to Michigan to do some off-roof skiing. The deer in the photo below was not the only one with a "deer-in-the-headlights" look. Algore planned on joining the Kennedy clan but could not make it. His 12-SUV entourage was snowbound somewhere north of Iowa. The Davos jet-setting elites wanted to fly in but the runways were closed. Beto? He's still trying to find "upper Peninsula" on the map. He knows the "panhandles" of Oklahoma and Texas but not the "upper peninsulas."

Links here:

• upper peninsula: Marquette has more snow that it's had in a decade (but the science is settled)

All from the upper peninsula over the weekend (the science is settled):