Notes From All Over -- Nothing About The Bakken -- The Feel-Good Page -- July 16, 2021

YouTube: what I'm listening to -- Lana Del Rey. Never gets old. It's interesting. It's hard to ask "Alexa" to play Linda Ronstadt, the best singer ever -- the problem: she had such an extensive and eclectic catalogue. I'm interested at different times in "different" "Lindas." If I ask Alexa to play "Linda Ronstadt" I never know what I'm going to get. On the other hand, Lana Del Rey is fairly predictable.  With some great and wonderful surprises.

UNP: can there possibly be any more bullish news than this? UNP halts shipments from west coast to Chicago to ease "significant congestion." Link to ZeroHedge.  I simply keep accumulating UNP.

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CVX: I just happened to see my quarterly dividend from CVX. I think I'm getting more in dividends than I ever invested in CVX. Yes, as noted, this is the "feel-good" page. 

Jump: Moderna to join S&P 500. Whoo-hoo! Shares jump. 

Lunch: my wife goes to fancy Asian restaurant most Fridays. Brings back something for me. She must be enjoying herself. It's 2:00 p.m. CT and she has not yet returned home. And I'm getting hungry.

KMI: to buy Kinetrex Energy -- to add a bit of "green energy" to its mix. What does Kinetrex Energy do? It calls itself a renewable natural gas developer, whatever that means. Machts nichts. I just keep accumulating KMI for the granddaughters. I think KMI is paying 6%. Recently increased its dividend ever so slightly. Pundits: confused with regard to midstreamers. Some love them; some hate them. Whatever. It's harder to build a new pipeline than just buy another pipeline company. 

Music: haven't heard this one in a long time. I don't think I've seen this video before.

Autos: McKinsey -- how the automotive industry is accelerating out of the turn. 

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The Philadelphia Story

Proterra: after I posted the Philadelphia story, a reader wrote -- 

It's a long, ugly story - but the miraculous, clean-green, electric bus - very expensive electric bus - is a failure on many levels.  (The "work" the City did to prep for these buses destroyed millions of dollars of fairly new landscaping and was just a nightmare for businesses along the routes.)

We ordered ours from Proterra - that's at the end of this story.

ABQ RIDE Debuts Electric Bus January 30, 2021

ABQ RIDE Debuts Electric Bus January 30, 2021 Electric buses contribute to Keller administration’s 100% renewable commitment

Well, Philadelphia just had to remove their entire fleet of electric buses - same company.  Wonder if we can cancel the rest of our order/

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Released Almost Ten Years Ago

I did not know (or if I did, I forgot).

This is so incredible. I was watching this on the small screen (laptop computer) ... wanted to see it on the big screen .... the large flat screen... I turned on the television ... went to "YouTube" on the Amazon Fire TV Stick ... and this popped up immediately ..

I'm not sure if I can think of any one person that defines the "southern California experience" that I know better than Lana Del Rey. 

Southern California, 1973 -- 1977. Then northern California, 1977 - 1980.

Southern California: unmarried. Three beautiful women. 

Northern California: married. One beautiful woman.