By Paul Sankey
Published on September 22, 2020 at 9:15 AM
Today, on Tesla battery day, a quick look at electric car economics. Why are so few electric cars sold? Because they are more expensive. Why when the fuel economics are so over-powering, are so few taxis electric? Because electric cars take too long to fill for taxi drivers. Why does this matter? Because the single largest part of the world oil market is US gasoline. As shown below, the red balloon is North American gasoline, […]
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By Paul Sankey
Published on September 20, 2020 at 11:37 AM
Good day! A chill September wind is blowing across Brooklyn Heights, as summer officially ends and fall very much starts. The market is feeling chills too, with COVID continuing to present a major challenge to policy-makers globally. We remain extremely frustrated by the excessive lock down requirements in New York despite effectively zero COVID. With massive testing, less than 1% positives are being found, and essentially no deaths (statistically speaking). This past week we quoted […]
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By Paul Sankey
Published on September 10, 2020 at 2:19 PM
There is a conspiracy theory, totally unsubstantiated, that Nikola Tesla was in New York the day the Hindenburg airship crashed in 1937, and that had been asked to use an ion gun to bring down the airship and preserve the US helium monopoly, while denigrating flammable hydrogen, that the Hindenburg was forced to use, owing to the US monopoly. This of course is a wild, somewhat meaningless and certainly unsubstantiated conspiracy theory, but it fits […]
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