Sunday Rich Friends and Relative Enemies

By Paul Sankey Published on February 1, 2026 at 7:29 PM

Brrr, It’s absolutely freezing here in New York city, the ruddy East River has only frozen (see above) and the streets are a bleached hellscape of black-iced pavements walled by dirty ice-snow piles topped with backed up garbage and passing dogs. Everything is frozen solid, the wind outside is howling, here in Brooklyn Heights above New York Harbor. Oof. Source: Weather.com, NOAA Back to natgas in a second, but as a historian, I would be …

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US Demography: K–12 Enrollment, Teenage Mothers, & Valero

By Paul Sankey Published on November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM

Assuming you are sitting in a traffic jam in the back of a limo being driven out to your country estate for Thanksgiving, we send a little reading for the holiday. You have no doubt seen or experienced this year’s travel data: all-time records. In this note we explain why every year more and more people drive for Thanksgiving, according to our theory: Ex-urbanisation.   Notable for Thanksgiving travel, that we are clearly higher than …

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Happy Hour this week: Ira Joseph Natgas Guru & Weekly Video from Fire Island

By Paul Sankey Published on September 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM

Guest – Ira Joseph – Senior Research Fellow at Columbia University’s Center on Energy Policy Date/Time – Thursday, September 11th at 4pm ET Registration – Click Here Ira Joseph is a Senior Research Associate at the Center on Global Energy Policy at Columbia University. Until 2022, he was the global head of global generating fuels and electric power pricing at S&P Global Platts, with over 30 years of experience in the sector. ~ Weekly video dropped, basically shortened Sunday Sankey …

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