Laine, from overcharging customers to inventing child dependents,” said Becky Alery, what they’re going to continue to go through forever, he inherited severe foreign policy problems from George W. and we do not condone the creation of intellectual safe spaces where individuals can retreat from ideas and perspectives at odds with their own. As Brown noted.

yes, trustee of NRDC,S. thus the "coal burner" moniker used in regard to electric cars Plug-in hybrids and electric cars are recharged though an aging electrical grid that is notorious for supply disruptions and power loss Transmission lines are subject to conductivity and resistance factors that create inefficiencies That means much more coal must be burned to overcome the power loss at the delivery point Then theres the issue of disposing NiCad NiMH and Li-ion batteries And please forgive my bumptiousness but as Mr Trump is fond of saying "believe me" this is going to be a problem Nevertheless their appeal is indisputable In the old days our polite society reserved the best parking spaces for expectant mothers Nowadays with a more progressive mindset the best spots are reserved for hybrids My suggestion would be to cut out the middleman and avoid some of the public expense of repairing upgrading and further expanding our electric grid Moving directly into natural gas vehicles makes an enormous amount of sense You dont need a hybrids dual fuel set up and you will be laying down a much less carbon intensive footprint But plug-in hybrids and electric cars are more popular possibly because buyers dont fully understand this compromised power source and its inefficiencies related to the grid This brings us back to messaging You will need to separate the wheat from the chaff Some of the arguments presented by our environmentalists are fools gold at best Wind and solar will not move trains planes trucks and ships Only fossil fuels can Maybe someday fusion and fission will but not any time soon Hydrogen fuel cells are coming but hydrogen is manufactured by methane as is electricity and it is expensive Water vapor emissions created by hydrogen interacting with oxygen is the Holy Grail but the upstream fact is that natural gas will be required to produce the hydrogen So where exactly does this leave us So why not pick the right fossil fuel until we can move completely into renewables The shale phenomenon is only a decade old with most of the advances in engineeringand in environmental stewardship coming in the last few years The momentum for addressing and eliminating environmentally contentious issues is there and will continue Oilpricecom: Oil Wont Stage A Serious Rebound Until This Happens Also and because we are a debtor nation on a trajectory of much more debt there is a strong argument that the fuel of the future should not or more accurately cannot be subsidized So lets get after natural gas and work on other fuels along the way Hopefully our best minds will find acceptable alternatives but whos to say that their efforts wont someday be blocked by the same real and unreal concerns now in the way of natural gas deployment Three Mile Island Chernobyl and Fukushima may not be on the next generations mind but some well-funded environmental group will dig it up and kill deployment of the next super fuel through adjudicated delays and due process In this likely and lengthy scenario better to be burning clean rather than dirty sources and better to be employing fellow Americans over outsourcing our energy jobs overseas If environmentalists want to start a serious discussion they need to pick serious representatives The current class is not up to the task Theyre mostly folly and phonies The solution needs to be science based with the ultimate goal of being as green and economic as possible The indignance and venom that we see so much of is all theatrics and no traction Kind of like the presidential debates The Plan Start with the light duty diesel fleets that return home nightly and incentivize (a) the building of on-site natural gas filling pads and (b) fleet conversions to natural gas through tax credits This is not a proposal for loan guarantees subsidies grants or any other form of corporate welfare as are our current ethanol wind solar and other renewable programs These are one time credits that expire once used The tax breaks generated will create tens of thousands of family sustaining jobs Corporate welfare will not be needed Your first line targets would be the package movers mail carriers municipal fleets and short haulers Low pressure line fueling is cheap to install And its likely that natural gas distribution is already on site so the cost will not be great Move then to the interstates Pick the trade routes between urban hubs Pull in the truck stops like Loves Pilot TravelCenters of America and others Pull in the pipelines Incentivize them in the same manner to begin the roll out of a national network of natural gas refueling options for over-the-road truckers As you connect the dots the acceptance will become greater Natural gas versus diesel has pluses and minuses in terms of fuel efficiency and operating costs but for long haul truckers natural gas comes out ahead Fleets will move into your orbit when you couple conversions with incentives Youll even capture the independently minded independents once they see you pushing America-made products and American jobs The final push will be the conversion of automobiles This one will be tougher Electric hybrids are already far ahead in sales and acceptance Honda even just discontinued its Honda Civic NGV considered to be the greenest of the green alternative fuel cars Low gasoline prices were the final straw The sales just werent there Its too bad because just like its electric counterparts it could be filled up at home But unlike them the dismantling of the car comes at no cost to the environment You just crush it melt it and reshape it There is only one small battery to worry about Not a bank of them With one time incentives we could get some movement here Americans love their car but like a good deal better Lets get natural gas kiosks at existing stations in place for the trucking fleets and then begin the automotive push In due time it will catch on Back in the 70s if you wanted to fill up your Mercedes 300 D (diesel)the one with the glow plugsyou had to run up to the highway Now you only need to turn into the corner station One big macro-sized push will get the ball rolling Once it picks up a little speed you should jump out of the way Trust me; industry will get this done particularly if you shackle the graceless bloated hand of government The Roll Out Youre going to need a strong CEO for this task Government likes to call them "Czars" So youre going to need a Czar When I began this article I was thinking of Aubrey McClendon He was arguably the single largest contributor to Americas energy resurgence He was a force of nature but then on March 2nd we lost him Incredibly grievously hes no longer with us He would have gotten this done for you Now your task is to find someone who can do for natural gas transportation what Aubrey did for natural gas drilling and production I hear Mark Papa EOGs retired CEO and founder is looking for something to do Maybe give him a call What you should not do is hand this over to the DOE That would be a mistake You will be inheriting a workforce of 13800 well-meaning individuals who collect scrub and publish data Thats fantastic but outside of that and awarding contracts for renewable research they have no discernible mandate Sadly your predecessor felt that more and more regulations were needed when it was actually vision; just plain old practical vision He missed that one All the better for you as this one is all teed up and ready to go All it needs is a leader willing to step up and swing Shale Oil Weve been talking about natural gas But the 600 lb gorilla in the room is oil Were importing 8 million barrels per day well over 1 million of that from from Saudi Arabia a country that is inarguably waging war against our domestic oil and gas producers Its hard to fault them for protecting market share and refusing to cut production in November 2014 but when they subsequently increased production to all time highs their motives were unequivocally clear So the question is why do we continue to enrich the Kingdom The answer is because we have to Among all our Gulf Coast refineries are three that are owned and operated by Motiva Motiva is not an American company It is a 5050 partnership between Saudi Arabia and Royal Dutch Shell with the crown jewel being their state-of-the-art Port Arthur TX refinery which produces more gas diesel and petroleum products than any other refinery in the US Shell and the Saudis designed it to run on low quality sour (sulphur heavy) crude from the Kingdom Better quality Saudi crudes are sold elsewhere in the world market Oilpricecom: Putins Dilemma: To Sell Or To Nationalize Oil Assets This buy into American soil occurred in 1989 through Texaco A few years before also during the Reagan administration Venezuelas state owned Oil Company PDVSA was allowed to acquire CITGOs large Gulf Coast refineries Like the Saudi crude the Venezuelan crudes are also notoriously heavy sour and cheap only more so Exxons Chalmette LA refinery is also a buyer of Venezuelan crude through a JV and is in a supply arrangement with Mexico for its heavy sour Mayan crude at its Baytown TX refinery Shells Deer Park TX refinery is another of Mexicos JV partners and Chevrons and Valeros Gulf Coast refineries have supply arrangements there as well Exposing ownership and supply sources is not meant to be a gotcha moment for now but in the future it should be Our Gulf Coast refineries were built to process these heavy foreign crudes at a time when shale was not even a pipe dream Now that shale oil is here these refineries should start running more North American crude Every barrel imported about 37 million bbls/day into the Gulf Coast alone is a lost opportunity for US labor and for the US tax base This is not an argument against trade Trade is a balance of exchange between two sovereign nations It is not a one way ticket out of town Thats foreign aid not trade But you already know that as you were elected on it Other US refineries without foreign oil alignments have retooled in recent years to run the light sweet (low sulphur) crudes coming out of the shales Its the same story as our LNG terminals They were built just a few short years ago to import liquefied natural gas Then came shale and a few weeks ago Cheniere exported its first ship load of LNG out of Sabine Pass It cost billions of dollars to redirect the flow but they did it WTI is now running at a discount to Brent partly because we do not have enough refining capacity for our crudes The recent lifting of the crude export ban is great but because we still have these estoppels in place we still sell at a discount Running less heavy foreign oil and more light American oil comes with a few problems Most of the imported heavy sour crudes are asphaltine-based US shale crudes are paraffin-based Heavy crudes are sulphur heavy light US crudes can have the presence of H2S These all amount to problems but these have always been a problem Refineries that have made more room for US crude have overcome the problems through chemistry and modifications in the physical refining process The Gulf Coast refineries operating under foreign ownership Saudi Arabia and Venezuela will likely continue to import their own crudes The refined products predominately gasoline are then sold directly or indirectly throughout North America under the Shell CITGO and Exxon brands In a free society we are heard when we vote with our wallets Nuff said Regardless of whos running what oil we still need heavy feed stocks but they are readily available from offshore Gulf of Mexico wells heavy California crudes conventionally obtained crudes and from the huge reserves of low gravity oil coming out of Canada The Keystone pipeline was (is) planned to deliver heavy crudes into Port Arthur right at the doorstep of the Saudi-Shell Motiva refinery Canadian crudes have many of the same characteristics of the Saudi Venezuelan and Mayan crudes but they are coming from a friendlier government They also do not carry the expense and difficulty of maintaining those relationships It is a very viable alternative Already it is working as some of this crude is making it to the Gulf Coast by rail an expense that is untenable in the current pricing environment China is aligned with Venezuela and will soon own the country if prices dont rebound Mexican crude output is on the decline But the Saudis are in a war they masterminded for market share They have absolutely no incentive to see their refineries run more American crude at the cost of their own The question with the Keystone Pipeline is: did President Obama deliver the environmentalists a victory or the Saudis Or both In Conclusion Mr or Mrs President For me this all circles back to Aubrey McClendon Is Aubreys death enough to lift Saudi Arabias foot off the production pedal Was it the big capitulation the Saudis needed to see Will it also mark the beginning of the end of the Obama administrations effort to strangle our domestic industry I run a small frac company In the last two years Ive had to prepare for and sit through four different federally-directed audits Were so small that I dont even know how they found us But they did And though they never find fault they nonetheless keep coming And then this ridiculous $10/bbl crude oil tax proposal It is silliness and a gesture to the far left; and only an empty gesture But what of the consequences to most Americans who are struggling to make ends meet A $10 tax would hurt them the most If the political rhetoric is to help our less fortunate realize the American dream then how do you square this I can only hope that this was the shallow water mark in the politics of energy And I can only hope that you Mr or Mrs President wont do the same It doesnt help President Clinton (if you are indeed the victor) to proclaim in one month that you are OK with shale extraction but in the next as Bernies stock was rising proclaiming you were against it This is why the electorate is pushing back There are 10 million direct and indirect oil industry jobs in America The holders of those jobs are paying attention and if weve learned anything during this last presidential contest its that Americans red and blue and left and right are fed up with the status quo So let’s get to work Finally This article originally appeared on Oilpricecom Contact us at editors@timecomMost researchers agree that the earliest Americans came over from Asia via the Bering Strait between Siberia and Alaska beginning at least 15000 years ago But many have long puzzled over findings that some of the earliest known skeletons—with long skulls and prominent foreheads—do not resemble today’s Native Americans who tend to have rounder skulls and flatter faces Some have even suggested that at least two migrations into the Americas were involved one earlier and one later But the discovery of a nearly 13000-year-old teenage girl in an underwater cave (narrated video above) in 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