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Crude Reality: U.S. and Canada’s Oil Patches Are Cracking Together
Let’s get this straight from the jump: The oil patch was cracking before Trump. But the man sure poured gasoline on the fire. A new report from S&P Global Commodity Insights is sounding the alarm: U.S. oil production is on track to fall in 2026—the first time in a...
90 Days of Breathing Room—If You Can Find a Boat
For all the noise about a 90-day tariff truce between the U.S. and China, the only ones grinning ear to ear right now are the shipping lines. After the U.S. slashed its tariffs on Chinese goods from 145% to 30%, and China cut theirs from 125% to 10%, the race was on....
Tariffs, Toys, and the American Dream on the Line
I was sitting on my couch, coffee in hand, watching CBS Sunday Morning—that soft, thoughtful show that reminds us the world isn’t all bad—when this story hit me square in the gut. Beth Benike. Veteran. Mom. Small business owner. Fighter. And now, thanks to a 145%...
Arrested for Landscaping While Brown
Last week in Palm City, Florida, the Florida Highway Patrol and ICE staged a show of force at a gated community like they were raiding a drug lord’s mansion. Their targets? Landscaping trucks. Their crime? Apparently, looking too brown in the wrong ZIP code. One of...
Oil Patch Puts Profits Over Pumps (Again)
You can always tell when the oil boys start feeling queasy—they park the rigs, talk about "discipline," and suddenly forget all that tough talk about energy independence. This week, they did just that. Baker Hughes’ latest rig count shows U.S. oil and gas rigs dropped...
When the Oil Boys Start Sweating, You Know the Party’s Over
When Halliburton starts waving red flags, you’d be wise to stop, look, and listen. The big dog of the oil patch posted a 7% drop in revenue last quarter—and while they tried to put on their Sunday best for Wall Street, the cracks were showing like a drunk at a church...
Permits, Profits, and Pipe Dreams
They keep saying the oil industry is being strangled by Washington red tape. Thousands of drilling permits sitting on desks, unused, collecting dust because of the evil feds and their love for solar panels. That’s the bumper sticker version. One keyboard warrior even...
No Handshake Required
They came from different corners of the world, many meeting face-to-face for the first time. They’d known each other by name, by reputation, through debriefs and whispers carried on desert winds. But when they finally gathered at The Four Green Fields—an Irish pub...
The Boardroom Math Behind California’s $8 Gas
While politicians bicker over carbon credits and green bragging rights, the real decisions driving California's gas prices are being made far from the Capitol—in oil company boardrooms, where the only green that matters is printed on a balance sheet. California is...
Isaac Cubillos
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