Hump Day -- Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Locator: 48310B. 

Amazon: employees -- to remain an employee -- must be back at work in the office five days / week. Wow, what a concept.

Investing: 20 dividend-paying stocks that benefit from a rate cut. Barron's.

Google, EU 1 - 0. Google  beats EU's $1.7 billion antitrust fine. Did hell just freeze over? Pigs flying?

Easy money: the question is now being raised -- should "easy money" be the norm? The economy took off (excelled) when the US had twelve years of easy money; April, 2008 -- September, 2022. Actually 14 years. A generation of Americans have only known "easy money." It becomes an even more fascinating question when we look at the real reason for inflation. Was Paul Krugman right all along? Even Steve Liesman is willing to play along, entertaining that thought.

Or was it simply about easily accessible, easily affordable, dispatchable energy?

Let's not overthink this.

The EU's crude oil production:

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Back to the Bakken

WTI: $70.21.

Thursday, September 19, 2024: 37 for the month; 165 for the quarter, 489 for the year
None.

Wednesday, September 18, 2024: 37 for the month; 165 for the quarter, 489 for the year
40241, conf, Hess, BL-Kerbaugh-156-96-3427H-6, Beaver Lodge, npd,
38649, conf, CLR, Ravin 13-1HSL, Dimmick Lake, npd,

RBN Energy: how much will LCI hydrogen help and will its production be cost-effective?

Two major pieces of early-2020s legislation — the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (2021) and the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA; 2022) — promise to provide billions of dollars in tax credits and other incentives for expanding the production of low-carbon-intensity (LCI) hydrogen. But the hype around clean hydrogen as a fuel of the future has lost some momentum of late, mostly due to spiraling costs. So we’re left with two questions: Can expanded production and use of LCI hydrogen significantly reduce carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions and, just as important, is LCI hydrogen production cost-effective?