Friday, June 24, 2022

Week 25: June 19, 2022 -- June 25, 2022.

Top story of the week:

  • Joe Biden is still president.
  • SCOTUS "overturns" Roe vs Wade
  • "Devout Catholic" deeply saddened by the SCOTUS ruling on abortion today.
  • EIA "systems failure" (see below)
  • Chevron exits California; moves to Texas

Top international non-energy story:

  • The Ukraine war drags on.
    • tea leaves suggest the West is ready to concede to Putin;

Top international energy story:

Top national non-energy story:

  • "January 6th" hearings — compelling.

Top national energy story:

  • EIA's information technology suffers a "systems failure." EIA did not report any data (except natural gas fill rate) for this past week; next week, we get an "update." 
    • EIA denies their system was hacked but that's all they would say
  • White House press secretary says $5- gasoline vs $60,000 EV is comparing "apples to oranges" 

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