Apple Campus Update, Austin, TX -- May 20, 2020

This is Apple, Inc. This is Austin, TX.

Reminder: Elon Musk moving CyberTruck factory to Austin, TX. Will move Tesla HQ to Texas; site not announced.

From MacRumors:

Apple is adding a 192-room hotel to the campus that it is developing in Austin, Texas, according to revised construction plans shared by Culturemap.

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Fast and Furious

Headlines. Generally no links. If this is important to you, googling will certainly find the stories. 

Biden and pipelines:

• Biden would stop the Keystone XL Pipeline for good, his campaign has revealed: the top story over at Rigzone "today."

Other energy:

• Exxon buys offshore Suriname stake from Petronas.
• Cameron's train 3 starts producing LNG; Hackberry, LA. Link here. See also the list of potential US LNG export facilities at this post.  Data points:
  initial award: 2014
• the project includes three liquefaction trains
• a projected export of 12 million tonnes per annum of LNG, or 1.7 billion cubic feet per day
• owned by affiliates of Sempra, Total, Mitsui, Mitsubishi, and Nippon 
• McDermott: lead on project

Corona virus:

• Victoria's Secret to permanently close 250 US, Canadian stores; Bath And Body, 50 stores;
• push to delay "April 15" tax day from current July 15to the October 15th; President Trump open to suggestion (I've long advocated simply dispensing with any more tax collections this fiscal year);
• Target's profit sinks 64% as costs soar amid pandemic (the article did not adequately "explain" "costs";

Politics:

• Judge dismisses high-tax states' lawsuit against Trump tax deduction limits (SALT)
• Trump campaign and RNC have record fundraising April (some numbers rounded): 
• brought in $62 million in the month of April
• total raised to date: $742 million
• this represents almost $300 million more than the Obama re-election effort had at this same point
• campaign 2020, Trump campaign has:
• over one million volunteers trained and activated; and,
• has added over 300,00 new volunteers cince moving to a virtual platform 
• Supreme Court (temporarily) blocks US House efforts to get Mueller grand-jury info released