Wow, I'm Gone For One Day And Social Media Explodes -- December 13, 2021

Reality sucks: the Bakken revolution (fracking) -- the leading technological innovation that drove reduced CO2 emissions over the last decade, not renewables

• Montana Bakken: began in 2000
• North Dakota Bakken: began in 2007

Reality sucks:

• in Europe right now, it costs 2 - 3x more to charge an EV than it is to power an ICE
• well, you know what I mean

There you go, Pocohontas and Bernie: 

• Brandon won't extend student loan relief; student load payments to restart February 1, 2022 -- source, Forbes -- plenty of jobs available to help pay off student loans
• 2022 is an election year, is it not?
  

Asking for a friend: is GasBuddyGuy being sarcastic, or living in a parallel universe? He tweets today:

• the national average is now $3.323 / gallon and falling -- should be under $3.30 / gallon in the next 72 hours 

I'm tired of the whining: I'm talking about all the folks going nuts over Omicron

• Alec Baldwin has killed more people that Omicron
• California: governor reinstates statewide mask mandate (remember: the state had an opportunity to recall him -- he's now bullet-proof)

Bitcoin: from "Walter Bloomberg": "Boe's Bailey says crypto investors may lose all their investment. Link here. Some social comments:

• it's always surprising when people who benefit most from the legacy banking system warn of the risks involved with bitcoin. Shocking even.
• it's almost like, it's a pyramid scheme?
• I had not idea crypto was volatile
• meanwhile in Turkey
• instead, let the government take all your money through inflation

Net-zero:

• if the entire EU went net-zero today and stayed net-zero for the rest of the century, the impact would be a rise in global temperature by 0.14°C -- Bjorn Lomborg
  

US dry natural gas production: to reach 97.5 billion cubic feet per day by December, 2022, one year from now

• would be the highest US monthly production on record
• source: EIA;

Los Angeles: from an out-of-town visitor:

• dinner where pasta entrees were $70 - $90
• sushi rolls for $22
• avocado toast for $18.50, and, of course,
• gasoline: $5.25 / gallon
  

Tankers:

• if the pandemic ends and oil supply can keep up with demand, tankers will do well in 2022
• if the pandemic ends and oil supply cannot keep up with demand, tankers will be at least 10x in 2024