Doug Burgum Will Be Secretary Dept of Interior -- November 14, 2024

Locator: 48761B.

Too much. If I’m an average American, the average American has too many / too much material goods. Time to start throwing stuff out. My goal: to throw out two boxes of stored material in the garage every day for as long as it takes. 

Back to Doug Burgum for Secretary, Interior. Even better than Secretary, Energy. Whoo-hoo.

I can't imagine anyone knowing more about BLM than Doug Burgum. DAPL anyone?

 BIA? Ditto:

I'm lovin' it!

I'm even liking RFK, Jr, as Secretary, HHS! Whoo-hoo! Now that I've listened to Jesse Watters.

Probably the one living Kennedy I still appreciate! LOL.  

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Shark Tank!

Mark Cuban is absolutely sick! LOL.

Quick! Name one reason why Mark Cuban chose not to run for president of the US. LOL.

How did it come about that DJT picked MG to run DOJ? Link here to NYT. 

Shark tank!

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North Texas!

Incredibly gorgeous weather in north Texas. Mid-November: 72°. Sunshine all day. No rain. No wind. Just incredibly beautiful weather.

Amazon Prime TNF.

Dot's Pretzels.

Easy Cup, Morimoto Junmai Sake.

Couldn't possibly be a nicer night.

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Magazines

My subscription to The Atlantic expires in January (2025).

I won't be renewing.

I've had enough of the Trump bashing. I gave it a fair chance; subscribed for several years. But I've had enough.

Same with The New Yorker. But current subscription doesn't expire for a few more months.

I've already let my subscription to The Claremont Review of Books (or whatever it's called) expire.

Same with the New York Review of Books.

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McDonald's

Awesome. I'll write about it this weekend. Maybe. Too tired to blog any more tonight.

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Bryson In Our Neighborhood

Just down the street from us. His brand new home.

Link here.

MRO With Five New Permits; MRO Also Reports Completing Four Huge DUCs --

Locator: 48760B.

WTI: $68.60.

Active rigs: 37.

Five new permits, #41338 - #41342, inclusive;

• Operator: Marathon (MRO)
• Field: Bailey (Dunn)
• Comments:
• MRO has permits for five wells in Bailey oil field, NWNE 18-145-93, 
• all to be sited 462 FNL and at five locations between 2015 FEL and 1855 FEL: Bailey, Mimee, Townsend, Wayne, and Jennie USA;

Permitted for re-entry:

• 40177, Five States Operating Company, RH 1-16H, Rocky Hill, Stark County.

Two permits renewed:

• BR: State Dodge 3B TFH (#34291) and State Dodge 3A MBH (#34292), Dimmick Lake, McKenzie County.

Five producing wells (DUCs) reported as completed:

• 39528, 389, Petro-Hunt, Burian 144-98-15A-22-3H,
• 40203, 547, Petro-Hunt, Zabolotny 144-98-9C-4-2H,
• 40378, 3,489, MRO, Humble USA 44-32TFH,
• 40380, 5,782, MRO, Thelma USA 44-33TFH,
• 40400, 5,479, MRO, Donkin USA 44-33H,

Comment: notice the new MRO permits -- all five in the prolific Bailey oil field. And then note the typically high IPs for the three MRO DUCs reported today (above).

RFK, Jr --> HHS -- November 14, 2024

Locator: 48759POLITICS.

Announced about 3:00 p.m. CST, November 14, 2024.

Big Pharma scrambling. 

Trump 2.0 tracked here.

Making America great again.

AI:

AI:

Wiki:

Wiki:

HHS website:

US House -- Final Results Have Hardly Changed Nine Days After The Election -- November 14, 2024

Locator: 48758ELECTION.

US House.

Link here.

Trump 2.0 tracked here. 

From there, US House being tracked here.

From there, The New York Times tracking the votes.

Germans Take Another Step To Increase Energy Prices To Keep The Maldives From "Sinking" -- November 14, 2024

Locator: 48757GERMANY.

Link here.

The German cabinet has approved reforms that will restrict oil companies from carrying excess emissions reduction credits forward, a move that will boost the country’s biofuel industry which has been impacted by a rapid drop in carbon prices in recent years.

In recent years, oil companies operating in Germany have met emissions goals by selling extra biodiesel; with sales clocking in at 3.4 million metric tons in 2022, 34% above their target. However, the reforms mean that oil companies will no longer be able to use past greenhouse gas reduction quotas to meet targets in the coming two years, with this option only reopening again in 2027. 

Back in September, Germany's Environment Agency rejected carbon credits for 215,000 tons of CO2 emissions from oil companies due to suspected fraud involving climate projects in China.

Companies usually meet these targets by using plant-based biofuels or through "upstream emission reduction" (UER) projects. However, concerns arose over a year ago when doubts arose about whether some of these projects met the required standards or even existed.