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Toxic oil waste is increasingly shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma, contaminating the state’s drinking water.
We found that regulators identified 2,000 problem wells in a 2021 report. Then they ignored their findings.
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#News #Oil #Gas #Environment #Oklahoma #Data #EPA #Regulation
Oil Regulators Found Hundreds of Wells Violating Oklahoma Rules. Then They Ignored Their Findings.
Oklahoma took on an ambitious project to catalog all of the state’s injection wells, which shoot toxic waste generated by oil drilling back into the ground. Despite records showing risk of drinking water pollution, the state chose not to act.Peter.DiCampo@propublica.org (ProPublica)
“This really is the big one,” David Goldwyn, fmr #US diplomat & #Energy Dept ofcl, said of the shutdown of the #StraitOfHormuz, the world’s most important choke point for #oil. This is the emergency scenario everyone feared.
#Cargo deliveries are stranded, #shipping charges have increased & #insurance premiums have skyrocketed. Yes, the price of #gas at the pump is affected. But so is the price of #food, #medicine, airplane tickets, #electricity, cooking oil, semiconductors & more.
Bombs are exploding in #Iran & the #MiddleEast, but the fallout is rattling households & businesses in neighborhoods all over the globe.
In Kansas, home buyers saw 30-yr #MortgageRates edge above 6% this week. In West India, families mourning the death of a loved one discovered that #gas fired #crematories had been temporarily closed.
In Hanoi, Vietnam, gas station owners posted “sold out” signs. In Kenya, tea growers & traders worried their exports to Iran would rot on the dock.
#Trump #EPA Moves to Weaken Limits on a #Cancer Causing #Gas
The gas, #EthyleneOxide, plays a crucial role in sterilizing medical devices. But long-term exposure is linked to several types of cancer & other ailments.
#law #EnvironmentalLaw #regulations #health #PublicHealth #safety
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Officials in #Cuba report an island-wide #blackout in the country of some 11 million people as its #energy & economic crises deepen.
The Ministry of Energy & Mines reported on X a “complete disconnection” of the country’s #electric system & says it is investigating.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel on Friday warned that the island had not received #oil shipments in >3 months & that it was operating on #solar power, natural #gas & #thermoelectric plants.
SNL’s Trump Exposes How Epstein Caused Sky-High Gas Prices
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#Trumpstein #Trump #gas #Epstein #SNL #press
SNL’s Trump Exposes How Epstein Caused Sky-High Gas Prices
“Saturday Night Live” has an idea why the U.S. invaded Iran—and it’s not the story the White House is peddling.Michael Boyle (The Daily Beast)
“This is a nightmare of America’s own making. This is what happens when you put in charge people as incompetent, greedy, corrupt and quite frankly stupid as Donald Trump. Those who have never learned from history because they’ve never learned history…."
~ Mary Trump
#Trump #MAGA #Iran #war #madness #insanity #stupidity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/24
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Marco Foster (@marco.foster) on Threads
Mary Trump on Iran: “This is a nightmare of America’s own making. This is what happens when you put in charge people as incompetent, greedy, corrupt and quite frankly stupid as Donald Trump.Threads
"Whole regions in the Philippines—including the capital city of Manila—just forced employers to institute a four-day workweek instead of a five-day workweek specifically to try to save energy.
Gas stations in Vietnam have started to run out of fuel. …
What was all this for?
'We’re doing this for the other parts of the world.'
I’m sure they’re delighted with that."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/23
"The nation of Bangladesh just closed its universities because they need to conserve energy—they need to conserve electricity used by the universities—and they need to reduce the need for people to drive anywhere."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/22
"A plastics plant north of Tokyo started to scale down production on Friday because they can’t get the raw materials they use in that production process—because they’re petroleum-based products.
It’s also aluminum and other commodities like that as facilities like smelters shut down for lack of fuel."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/21
"Huge amounts of fertilizer pass through the Strait of Hormuz—fertilizer bound for ports all over the world, for crops all over the world, for foodstuffs all over the world.
Raw materials related to the petroleum industry are also being choked off."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/20
"In Qatar and Kuwait and Bahrain, major energy companies have declared force majeure—which basically means they’re saying, hey, act of God, outside our control.
We can no longer be held to any contracts we previously signed.
As they all radically scale down their oil and gas production.
And it’s not only fuel—it’s also food."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/19
"The Wall Street Journal is now describing this as the most severe energy crisis since the 1970s.
CNBC calls it the biggest oil supply disruption in history.
Saudi Arabia has now cut its production of oil.
Iraq’s production of oil is down to less than one-third what it was before Trump started this war."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/18
"The president did unveil a new purported justification for the war today in his rambling press conference at his golf thing.
He said, quote:
'We’re doing this for the other parts of the world.”
We’re doing this for the other parts of the world.'
It’s actually hard to argue with that one. That one might actually be true."
~ Rachel Maddow
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #insanity #oil #gas #economy #EnergyCrisis #agriculture #fertilizer #food
/17
"With nearly one-third of key fertilizer ingredients and a large share of global urea and ammonia exports tied to the region, attacks on ships and halted transit are driving up fertilizer, oil, and diesel prices—raising costs for farmers and potentially leading to higher grocery prices and lower crop yields worldwide."
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #fertilizer #agriculture #food
/14
"The war with Iran is threatening to raise global food prices as shipping disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz stall fertilizer exports critical for agriculture."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #fertilizer #agriculture #food
/13
Robert Reich asks who’s getting the most out of Trump’s war. His list (it doesn't include the American people, by the way):
Pete Hegseth’s “Department of War”
Top military contractors
Larry Ellison’s Oracle
Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Peter Thiel’s Palantir Technologies
Big Oil
Jared Kushner
Vladimir Putin
#Trump #Putin #Hegseth #JaredKushner #ElonMusk #LarryEllison #PeterThiel #Iran #Israel #Russia #war #oil #gas
/9
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Sunday thought: Who’s Winning from Trump’s War? Follow the Money
Trump, his biggest backers, and Vladimir PutinRobert Reich
"According to Gas Buddy, the national average price for a gallon of regular gas is now up to $3.59 a gallon. This is a 62-cent jump from February 28th.
Largest oil disruption ever in history.
Brent is up 12.5% right now. That is up to 104.30. Crude oil is up 12%."
~ David Shuster
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #economy #prices #affordability
/13
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Shuster’s Weekly Wrap-Up: Trump’s Iran War Sends Oil Prices Soaring
Trump’s Iran strikes trigger soaring oil prices, job losses, and rising inflation fears. David Shuster breaks down the economic fallout and political chaos.Blue Amp Media
"'On Thursday, futures for Brent crude oil closed at just above $100 a barrel for the first time since 2022. The move will provide a huge financial boost to Russia, which experts say has already been receiving about $150 million per day from increased oil sales since the US attacked Iran two weeks ago. The lifting of the sanctions positions Putin as one of the biggest beneficiaries Trump’s war on Iran.'”
"WaPo: 'The Trump admin temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil shipments in an effort to calm markets and stem the economic fallout from its war on Iran, which has sent crude prices spiraling upward. This allows Russia to begin selling some 128 million barrels of oil that are estimated to have already been loaded onto tankers previously facing restrictions from the US.'”
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #Iran #war #Putin #Russia #oil #gas
/11
meidasplus.com/p/today-in-poli…
Today in Politics, Bulletin 327. 3/13/26
… CNN: “The Pentagon and NSC significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"Trump’s gift to Vladimir Putin to get his own ass out of the sling is both a huge concession to Russia and an unmistakeable admission that the economic reverberations from the elective war in Iran are having acute downstream political effects on Trump and Republicans in an election year."
~ David Kurtz
#Trump #Putin #Iran #war #oil #gas #Russia
/25
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Trump Bails Out Russia to Save His Own Hide
INSIDE: JD Vance ... John Brennan ... Nathan CavanaughDavid Kurtz (Morning Memo)
"Fox News and Newsmax are doing their best Baghdad Bob impersonation to downplay the incredible surge in gas prices Americans have faced since President Donald Trump launched his war on Iran. Fox and Newsmax personalities are urging their viewers to accept spiking gas prices as a patriotic 'sacrifice' to take on Iran, and are claiming that prices will come back down quickly."
~ Zachary Pleat
"Oil prices have surged, and one of the biggest beneficiaries so far has been Russia. According to reporting from the Financial Times, Moscow could be earning up to $150 million per day in additional revenue due to the global energy shock triggered by the conflict. Analysts estimate Russia has already gained between $1.3 billion and $1.9 billion in additional oil revenue as demand for its crude rises."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Putin #Iran #war #oil #gas #Russia
/21
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Friday Afternoon Updates: Reality Gets in the Way of Trump's Lies — 3/13/26
It’s Friday, we’ve made it to the end of the week.Ben Meiselas (Meidas+)
(continued from /19)
"his insistence that tuning the economy to the benefit of a few favored producers is a victory, even if it harms the vast majority of consumers."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
/20
The Bulwark today headlines its morning report: "Trump to America: Thank Me for Your Gas Bill." Andrew Egger writes:
"[Trump's statement about how *we* benefit from higher gas prices is] an illustration of the exact mindset that led Trump to do so much damage to the U.S. economy even before the war:"
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
/19
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Trump to America: Thank Me for Your Gas Bill
Higher prices = more money, according to the president.William Kristol (The Bulwark)
"According to petroleum analyst, Patrick DeHaan, Americans today will spend roughly $250 million more on gasoline than they did 30 days ago. That’s over $1.5 billion per week."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
/18
"Trump isn’t even trying to hide it anymore. When he says 'we' make a lot of money, he means oil executives, and he means himself. Because that’s all Trump cares about. How he can put more money in his own pocket and deliver a payout for his billionaire cronies."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA #billionaires #oligarchy #EconomicElites
/17
"Trump, in his latest spiral, just tried to rebrand soaring gas prices as a good thing.
'The United States is the largest Oil Producer in the World, by far, so when oil prices go up, we make a lot of money,' he wrote on Truth Social.
Who is 'we?' I’ll tell you who it’s not: the voters who put this guy in office."
~ Brian Tyler Cohen
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #prices #affordability #economy #MAGA
/16
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Trump's Soaring Gas Prices are a "Good Thing" for Anyone but You
Trump claims “we” stand to make a ton of money off the war in Iran. But the “we” does not include you.Brian Tyler Cohen
"And so now nearly all tanker traffic there is at an indefinite standstill and there’s a line of about 3,000 boats with some 20,000 crew members stuck."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #prices #groceries #affordability #economy
/8
"Bad news, weirdos! The Gas prices have surged 20 percent over the past two weeks, after the Strait of Hormuz — which connects the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman and through which 30 percent of the world’s boat-shipped oil and 20 percent of its natural gas flows — was deemed by insurance companies to be too dangerous to allow tankers to go through after the US attack on Feb. 28."
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #prices #groceries #affordability #economy
/7
"Remember how a bunch of low-information voters — that inexplicable some 4 to 6-ish percent of people who also voted for Barack Obama and also Joe Biden, or who previously didn’t vote at all — came out for Trump in ‘24 because of The Groceries and The Gas and The Inflation and the Masculine Penis Insecurities or whatever?"
~ Marcie Jones
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #StraitofHormuz #prices #groceries #affordability #economy
/6
"Plus, for a variety of reasons, the US is less exposed to this crisis than much of the rest of the world, so measuring it in terms of the impact on November’s midterms in the US won’t really measure its full effect.
The longer this crisis goes on, the longer it’ll take to recover from it."
"Various kinds of petroleum products, like jet fuel and diesel, are being affected more quickly than others, and both of those create immediate downstream problems in the transportation industry. Then there are the other impacts of Iran lobbing cheap drones at its Arab neighbors, on flights connecting through airports still being targeted, on tourism, on data centers."
"In an 1100-word piece weighing the energy shock Trump’s illegal war on Iran has caused in terms of White House worries (and so implicitly, politics), Politico grants anonymity to someone describing what is happening to the oil market as 'little gyrations.' …
There are far more products that are being choked off in Hormuz: fertilizer (and food products coming into the Gulf), aluminum, helium, sulphur."
~ Marcy Wheeler
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas
/15
emptywheel.net/2026/03/11/blip…
Blips and Gyrations: The Market Thinking of Trump's Incompetent Advisors - emptywheel
The damage that Trump's flailing and his advisors' ignorance are doing to the rest of the world will forever change how US power is viewed.emptywheel
“Gasoline, which reached a peak of over $6 a gallon in some states under my predecessor — it was, quite honestly, a disaster — is now below $2.30 a gallon in most states,” Trump boasted minutes into his nearly-two-hour address, framing his party’s message heading into the midterms.=
Two weeks later, his war with Iran threatens to undermine that pitch."
~ Hannah Knowles
"The conflict has sent the price of gasoline surging, and it reached $3.48 a gallon on Monday, nearly a 17 percent increase since the war began on Feb. 28. World leaders are preparing for far-reaching repercussions, and in private some Republicans lawmakers are growing resigned to the harsh political realities that confront the party in power when prices rise sharply."
~ Tyler Pager
"Oil went up dramatically over the weekend. I believe it briefly got up to over $110 a barrel and then it fell yesterday when Trump made these statements that the war is pretty much over we’re gonna be wrapping it up, and in anticipation of G7 nations releasing oil reserves. Now today it’s continuing that and it’s fallen significantly below $80, so investors think that Trump is going full taco here…."
~ Josh Marshall
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Unpacking Trump’s Rhetorical Flip-Flops on Iran
Yesterday, I wrote that President Trump was moonwalking out of his war in Iran. Then later that afternoon and last night he made a series of highly bellicose…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
"Oil commodities have fallen and the stock market has risen, as Wall Street believes that Trump’s Iran 'excursion' is short lived. But the problem is, Trump's word means nothing."
~ Emily Singer
dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/10…
What Wall Street is getting wrong about Trump’s oil crisis
Wall Street has had its head in the sand through the entirety of President Donald Trump's second term, whistling past the graveyard as Trump's tariffs throttled the job market ...Daily Kos
"Public opinion will quickly whiplash Trump. The first $100 tank of gas will be a shock. The second may be a financial crisis for many Americans. And the third will have Americans demanding that Trump stop the war now—something easier said than done, and something that Trump failed to consider when he gave the order to start the war."
~ Robert B. Hubbell
