Clearing Out The In-Box -- February 21, 2020

Fracking ban talks: something is going on here. I'm beginning to think we're rounding up the "usual suspects" and not considering the real culprits. 

Solar: recent article on Tonopah. Now we have this on Ivanpah. The world's largest concentrated solar plant generates as many problems as megawatts. -- Atlas Obscura.

Power Line:

• Bloomberg's moment: I think there is some good news about which folks are not reporting. I hope to find time to get back to this.
• Quick! Name the shooter who shot Rep Steve Scalise and a number of other GOP legislators. Or at least something about the shooter. The Daily Caller may help you remember. The shooter has been completely erased from history. Scalise earns tweet of the year. 
• The most important campaign document of 2020. 

Fact check: earlier I mentioned that I don't recall Mike Bloomberg suffering a heart attack as Bernie Sanders claimed. I was correct. Bernie, after the debates, sent out a correction: Bloomberg had had stents placed as a precautionary measure; no history of heart attack.

US Navy: amphibian assault forces to get F-35s. Huge, huge story. Google key words. 

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Fossil Fuel

Oilprice:

• Suncor gets Alberta approval for 40,000-bpd sands project. 
• Trafigura won't trade Rosneft due to new Trump sanctions -- huge, huge story.
• Venezuela declares energy emergency. The timing is interesting.
• Shell looks to expand Mars crude pipeline system.

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Market Meltdown 

Goldman Sachs, Alan Greenspan, WHO press conference mentioning pandemic -- all coincidentally spoke around 10:00 a.m. yesterday. All "Debbie Downers." Dow dropped almost 400 points By end of day had recovered remarkably. Down only 160 points. This morning, futures suggest Dow to open another 100 points down.

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Re-Posting

AOC has company: Bolingbrook, IL, mayor rejects Amazon's offer to build a "massive" distribution center in Bolingbrook.

Japan: and coal. 

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