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."
- 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
- 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";
- 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
