Gopher Holes, Farmers, Lobbies, Mid-terms and Diesel Tank Bottoms

By Paul Sankey Published on September 7, 2026 at 2:37 PM

Strap in everyone, we are entering the time of year, post-Labor Day, when time flies. Before you know it, it will be January. NFL: my Giants snouts are calling for a 0.500 season. Ufff. Yankees are in the playoffs, the Mets have been a total, complete, disaster. Highest payroll, worst results. ~ Tomorrow, Tuesday at the big annual energy conference that starts our year, on the marathon from Labor Day to Memorial Day, we have …

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The Winner Takes it All… in my Living Room

By Paul Sankey Published on July 5, 2026 at 3:19 PM

Brief today, no homework, between hosting a July 4th Barbeque last night, watching the fireworks from the Promenade – they really lit it up big time, incredible – and the tall ships. I wondered if we would get drones, but they went with the big artillery. At one point the Brooklyn Bridge was a cascading flow of white fire into the water below. The bonus of the tall ship show yesterday morning offset the catastrophe. …

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The Knicks, Vultures, and “The Art of the Deal”

By Paul Sankey Published on June 14, 2026 at 4:26 PM

As I write this, we are rushing to get ahead of the 3:30 p.m. ET press conference planned for President Trump today regarding the seemingly endless “Deal Very Soon” situation with Iran. Let’s repeat our quote from the 2000s Iran nuclear EU “It’s like playing chess with a monkey. You get them to checkmate, and then they swallow the king.” Watching the U.S.–Iran dynamic right now feels exactly like watching a Knicks game: we constantly …

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