Love Letter to Ethane (from the Frontline of the US-China Trade War)

By Paul Sankey Published on April 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM

He said, Xi said (nothing). We all suffer lunacy in tracking the often-antagonistic, sometimes-capitulative iterations of this “nonsensical” trade war. Headlines this week have drifted towards hyperbole, portents of the death of US-China energy trade – especially oil and LNG. In this note we tit-tat US-China energy. Key points: US energy trade with China is one worldscale trade where we, the USA, are in major trade surplus, globally the dominant supply player, and effectively control …

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Morning Happiness is Ice and Orchids

By Paul Sankey Published on February 18, 2025 at 9:08 AM

Greetings! It’s a whippy 21°F here in Brooklyn Heights, -6°C. This is the windiest street n New York City, running parallel to the promenade along the exposed hill over looking the grey-icy Atlantic in New York Harbor, with 30mph ice blasts taking wind chill to -7°F, -17°C. This morning at 6:15am at Clark Street, at The Drip coffee kiosk at 6.15am my voice wavered, and cracked, as I asked for my daily “large, ah, iced …

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Bullish 2050 Natgas and Kinder Chocolate

By Paul Sankey Published on December 17, 2024 at 8:58 AM

Meeting Kinder Morgan last week in Houston, with my old mate, IR and corporate VP Peter Staples (my other old mate CEO Kim Dang was in NY for a couple of conferences) I perused the just-released guidance for 2025 and made the following comment: “So KMI stock is on 22x price-earnings, based on your guidance for next year of $1.27 EPS. Your dividend yield is down towards 4% (stock has ripped), and you just announced …

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