A different take on why gas prices have fallen

December 14, 2022

The word is “manipulation”

by Dan Burns

Big Oil greedhead psychology

June 20, 2022

It’s not complicated

by Dan Burns

What President Biden should really do about gas prices

March 9, 2022

Over the years I’ve seen estimates that oil speculators drive up prices by anything from 15 to 25 percent during spikes. (Even the ultra-conservative, market fundamentalist Fed acknowledges that they’re a real factor.) Here’s why they do that. Traders with connections to the oil companies can also make big bets on the opaque crude oil […]

by Dan Burns

How serious is Big Energy, about going green?

July 23, 2019

Judging by what Xcel Energy is doing, here in Minnesota, it would seem that they are quite serious indeed. As Xcel Energy prepares a filing to close its last coal units in Minnesota, a lesser-known provision of the settlement announced (in May) commits the utility to energy savings equivalent to another power plant. The agreement […]

by Dan Burns