A year before the Civil War ended at Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865, the Confederate States of America had a problem that most modern Americans have never thought about.
The first distributed ledger was carved from limestone six hundred years ago on a tiny island in the western Pacific. A fleet of dugout canoes pulled into a cove towing what had to be the most...
I've been telling you since the first bombs fell that there would be a point of no return in this conflict — the point at which the supply damage is already baked into future oil flows. But...
Count to 10^60. You can't. Don’t worry, there’s nothing wrong with you. Truth is, nobody can. We’re talking about a number with 60 zeros! To put a little perspective on this number, it’s...
Six months after our 2026 oil outlook flagged the supply-shock risk, the Iran/US conflict closed the Strait of Hormuz and sent WTI past $100. Here are the three U.S. oil stocks we believe investors...
You’ve never heard of the name J. Howard Pew before. Don’t worry, you’re not alone. Truth is, most people haven’t. Back in 1967, he ran a little company named Sun oil, but you may recognize...
Magic was in the air the morning that Anthony Lucas' drilling crew was working a rotary rig four miles south of Beaumont, Texas. It may not have felt special at the time. After all, his team had...
Last month, two of the world's largest holders of gold did the exact opposite thing. First, we saw the People's Bank of China take delivery of over 7 tonnes of gold bullion. For the record, that was...
Wall Street called him crazy for betting on U.S. LNG, but the Iran war just made him an energy prophet.
While everyone watches the precarious state of energy prices in the wake of the Third Gulf War, a different energy crisis snuck up the back stairs of the American grid...
Of all the places on Earth that we would expect to embrace a next-gen technology to solve an energy crisis, the last area we’d look at is a quiet industrial estate near Redruth in Cornwall,...
If you were a kid running around north-central Kentucky in 1937, you would’ve beheld quite a sight. One morning, you would’ve stopped in awe as 50 armored train cars rolled by, carrying...