Amazon -- October 31, 2025

Locator: 49295AMZN.

The WSJ, link here:

Enbridge Wins -- TGIF -- October 31, 2025

Locator: 49294ENB.

Today's big story: link here.  

Second biggest story, from Vanity Fair of all things, link here. 

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Back to the Bakken

WTI: $60.31. Link here.

New wells reporting: link here.

RBN Energy: link here. 

Yahoo: Today's Best Sales -- At Amazon -- MacBook Air, M4, 13-Inch -- $799 -- We've Seen This Before -- October 30, 2025

Locator: 49293APPLE.

Noted by Yahoo! today this as a "rare sale," as one of the best sales of the day.

I can't recall if I paid $799 or $749 for this MacBook Air, M4, 13-inch. 

I think I paid $749 but can't be sure. Either way, my wife, for whom I bought it, says it was her best gift ever. 

Except for the new car (2025).

As for me:

• I'm stilling using a MacBook Air, M1, 13-inch, released in 2020 (five years ago); and, 
• driving a 2012 (bought in 2011) Honda Civic / a 2007 Chrysler minivan

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The Book Page

I'm re-reading Keld Zeruneith's book, The Wooden Horse: The Liberation of the Western Mind, From Odysseus to Socrates, c. 2007. I've read the book through twice and many sections multiple times. 

For students, the initial scaffolding:

• three historians: Homer, Hesiod, Pindar
• three tragedians: ASE -- Aeschylus (the old man); Sophocles (the rock star); and Euripides (the rebel)
• three philosophers: SPA -- Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (first scientist) 
• 1+3 generals: Alexander the Great and his four generals -- Ptolemy,  Seleucus, Antigonus and three major kingdoms
• Ptolemy: Egypt 
• Seleucus: the Seleucid Empire -- Asia
• Antigonus: the Antigonid Empire -- Macedonia and Greece
• Kingdom of Pergamon (Pergamene Kingdom, Attalid Kingdom) -- Lysimachus

I've taken extensive notes on the book, first handwritten and then transposed to this site, my literature blog. To find all my notes on this book, search Keld at that site.

Trump: The Most Transformational President Since WWII -- TikTok Transfer Apparently Approved By China -- October 30, 2025

Locator: 49292TIKTOK.

Electricity Rates By State -- Have Just Posted -- August, 2025 -- Posted October 30, 2025

Locator: 49291ELECTRICITY.

Note: in a long note like this, there will be typographical and content errors. Go to the source if questions. 

EIA: link here. 

For previous month, July, 2025: link here. 

For this month, August, 2025, below:

Regional average, this year, last year:

New England:

• residential: 29.10 <-- 27.90
• commercial: 22.75 <-- 20.64
• all sectors: 24.96 <-- 23.33
• most expensive, residential: 
• Massachusetts
• most expensive, industrial:
• Rhode Island

Middle Atlantic:

• residential: 23.79 <-- 21.99
• commercial: 18.95 <-- 15.77
• all sectors: 19.38 <-- 17.15
• most expensive, residential: 
• New York
• most expensive, industrial:
• New York

East North Central:

• residential: 18.22 <-- 16.45
• commercial: 13.35 <-- 12.30
• all sectors: 13.81 <-- 12.50
• most expensive, residential: 
• Michigan
• most expensive, industrial:
• Illinois

West North Central:

• residential: 15.27 <-- 14.67
• commercial: 11.74 <-- 11.25
• all sectors: 12.06 <-- 11.57
• most expensive, residential: 
• Minnesota
• most expensive, industrial:
• Missouri

South Atlatic:

• residential: 15.65 <-- 14.36
• commercial: 11.24 <-- 10.49
• all sectors: 12.81 <-- 11.98
• most expensive, residential: 
• DC (by a lot)
• most expensive, industrial:
• Maryland (by a lot)

East South Central:

• residential: 14.04 <-- 13.20
• commercial: 13.06 <-- 12.22
• all sectors: 11.81<-- 11.10
• most expensive, residential: 
• Alabama
• most expensive, industrial:
• Alabama 

West South Central:

• residential: 14.79 <-- 14.09
• commercial: 9.47 <-- 9.13
• all sectors: 10.55 <-- 10.14
• most expensive, residential: 
• Texas (unregulated)
• most expensive, industrial:
• Arkansas

Mountain:

• residential: 14.70 <-- 14.33
• commercial: 11.94 <-- 11.48
• all sectors: 12.25 <-- 11.89
• most expensive, residential: 
• Colorado
• most expensive, industrial:
• Colorado

Pacific Contiguous:

• residential: 25.69 <-- 25.75
• commercial: 23.89 <-- 22.96
• all sectors: 23.09 <-- 22.93
• most expensive, residential: 
• California (almost double the other two)
• most expensive, industrial:
• California (almost triple the other two)

Pacific Nonontiguous:

• residential: 34.87 <-- 36.30 (yes, a decrease y/y)
• commercial: 29.59 <-- 30.51
• all sectors: 30.67 <-- 32.08
• most expensive, residential: 
• Hawaii
• most expensive, industrial:
• Hawaii

North Dakota 

• residential: 12.94 <-- 12.73  
• commercial: 7.52 <-- 7.15
• industrial: 7.64 <-- 7.24
• all sectors: 8.42 <-- 8.02

Minnesota

• residential: 16.94 <-- 16.45  
• commercial: 13.15 <-- 12.98
• industrial: 9.42 <-- 9.48
• all sectors: 13.40 <-- 13.15

Outside Hawaii, Alaska, industrial:

• most expensive:
• California: 24.69
• Rhode Island: 20.12
• least expensive:
• Louisiana: 6.28
• Oregon: 6.37
• New Mexico: 6.50
• Oklahoma: 6.55
• Texas: 6.57
• Tennessee: 6.99
• South Carolina: 7.04
• Kentucky: 7.21
• Arkansas: 7.26
• Mississippi: 7.37
• North Dakota: 7.64