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More public opinion polling this week much of it focused on Marine Le Pen creating a full picture of her positives and negatives... French cabinet ministers met Friday to discuss the migrant flood that reached the Italian island of Lampedusa this week. 7000 in two days. A shorter video clip from today's protest in Paris. Yellow Vests worn by most of the group that sang as they marched drums also present. One carboard sign displayed by a protester reads: "Tout augmente la misere aussi Dehors Macron" linking President Emmanuel Macron to the notion that: "Everything increases the misery"... In rural...

U.S. gasoline prices are headed higher in the nation’s corn belt, and could rise by as much as $1 per gallon at some gas stations, the head of petroleum analysis at GasBuddy warned on Thursday. GasBuddy’s Patric DeHaan implored the EPA to issue fuel waivers ASAP, as the wholesale price of gasoline spikes in Oklahoma, Missouri, South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Montana, and Kansas. “ALERT: #GasPrices will likely rise 25-75c/gal in OK, MO, SD, ND, NE, MN and KS over the next few days. Some stations may go up closer to $1/gal as the wholesale price of gasoline is spiking...

If you thought Joe Biden’s attempt to jawbone gasoline station owners into lowering prices was stupid, make way for the king of dunces, California Governor Gavin Newsom. Californians pay the highest prices for gasoline in the country, well over $6 a gallon almost everywhere. Even Hawaii with no oil production, totally dependent on oil shipped in, now has cheaper gasoline than California. Governor Gavin Newsom is on the ballot for re-election and wants to be taken seriously as a 2024 residential contender, so he evidently feels the need to address his constituents’ highest-in-the-nation level of pain at the pump. But...

"Imagine you are having a party and extra people show up unexpectedly but they aren’t thoughtful enough to bring their own wine and beet salad. You have a finite amount of food and beverage in your home, so either you go find more or everyone else gets less than you intended. That is what the globalist left (democRATs, RINO’s, UK Labour Party, German SPD, etc.) are doing to Western civilization, forcing us to compete for our own resources with imported replacement citizens they brought in for reliable left wing voting and cheaper labor costs. If you have less of something...

A marathon session for lawmakers in France's National Assembly from Thursday into Friday a host of contentious issues on the table. A compromise reached with the less powerful French Senate that will give the government the ability to impose COVID control measures on France's borders. Last week the National Assembly ditched the notion of vaccine passports and other domestic emergency measures and powers to deal with COVID and ended up gutting all COVID restrictions the government wanted to get some powers back but only got the ability to impose COVID rules on the border. Energy and purchasing power on the...

...another take, I don't know how reliable it is, on why gas prices are high...

Nina Burleigh of Business Insider who is best known to the world for having "Offered Oral Sex to Bill Clinton to Keep Abortion Legal" found a new mission in life. This time it was focused away from presidential candle sticks to presidential stickers. Specifically, the highly popular "I Did That!" Joe Biden stickers that have appeared pointing at rising prices of gasoline on station pumps during the past year.Those stickers have so irritated Burleigh that she went on a great meme hunt for the creator. Her Odyssey was described on Monday in "'I Did That!': Anti-Biden stickers are plastered on...

Gas prices went up again on Wednesday, setting a new record for the 12th straight day even after resident Joe Biden’s unprecedented release from the nation’s emergency petroleum reserves began on Sunday. According to AAA’s gas tracker, the nationwide average for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline is $4.56, surpassing the prior day’s high when prices passed $4.50. Diesel fuel, used for tankers, trains, trucks, farming machinery, and other industrial equipment, also reached a new high at $5.577 per gallon on Wednesday. The daily consecutive records come weeks ahead of Memorial Day, when prices traditionally reach their spring peak. In...

Earlier this month, already high gas prices sustained throughout the resident’s 14-month tenure reached a new peak at $4.33 a gallon. A coalition of 10 oil and natural gas trade associations representing small- to mid-size producers blasted resident Joe Biden last week for blaming the industry for high energy prices. “Oil and gas companies shouldn’t pad their profits at the expense of hardworking Americans,” Biden wrote in a Twitter post highlighting the disconnect between crude oil prices and the price of gasoline, dismissing complexities in the supply chain that cause those prices to come down slower than the cost of...

resident Joe Biden and prominent Democrats blame Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, alleged oil-company collusion, and even COVID-19 for today’s sky-high gas prices. They refuse to take responsibility for this monumental mess of their own design. Revealing ... perjury-strength talent for lying, resident Biden said: "It’s simply not true that my administration or policies are holding back domestic energy production." While running for president, Biden repeatedly promised to do exactly this. "I guarantee you," Biden told New Hampshire voters on Sept. 6, 2019. "We’re going to end fossil fuels." ... From Day One, Biden and the Democrats’ actions and statements...

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was unable to answer a question Wednesday about how long gas would be at three dollars a gallon but stressed he understood American’s feelings on the matter. EPA Administrator Michael Regan and the transportation secretary spoke about the crisis at the daily press briefing at the White House. When asked directly by a reporter about his message to Americans who were facing the high cost of gasoline, Buttigieg replied, “My message is that we understand these concerns that we’ve seen in a lot of the impacted geographies, that this is a real issue.” The average cost...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S. energy company says a cyberattack forced it to temporarily halt all operations on a major pipeline that delivers roughly 45% of all fuel consumed on the East Coast. Colonial Pipeline said the attack took place Friday and also affected some of its information technology systems. The company transports gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and home heating oil from refineries primarily located on the Gulf Coast through pipelines running from Texas to New Jersey. The Alpharetta, Georgia-based company said it hired an outside cybersecurity firm to investigate the nature and scope of the attack and has also...

Thailand joining the list of nations acting over concerns that the Astra Zeneca vaccine causes blood clots... Authorities in Idaho appear to be moving towards a trial next week for Ammon Bundy and... In France four thousand police deploying this weekend to enforce coronavirus restrictions in an around Paris... A 27 million dollar settlement announced between Minneapolis and the family of George Floyd... The federal building in Portland attacked Thursday night... "You need to know the facts before you make a decision" New York Democrat Governor Andrew Cuomo facing a full court press to leave office... A diplomatic incident when...

Julian Assange arrested at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London Thursday...... The 'no one is above the law' talking point repeated by British Prime Minister Theresa May speaking to the House of Commons. The Leader of the Opposition, Jeremy Corbyn, says the British government should oppose Assange's extradition to the United States..... Eucadorian authorities have arrested a man described as being "close" to Assange.... A reporter for British activist Tommy Robinson's "TR.NEWS" website detained at Los Angeles International Airport....... Trump tweeting in part that its: "Too bad that the European Union is being so tough on the United Kingdom" Public opinion...

The government plans to end subsidies and let the market dictate prices in March, but the already-strained Mexican people will feel the pinch at the pump before they start falling. The finance ministry announced Tuesday that the price of gasoline would increase by as much as 20.1 percent to 88 cents per liter on Jan. 1, while diesel would rise by 16.5 percent to 83 cents. The price ceiling will be adjusted daily starting Feb. 18, before letting supply and demand determine them in March. Around 100 protestors blocked a service station in the Pacific Coast resort of Acapulco on...

On the morning of Sept. 9, an inspector with the Alabama Surface Mining Commission was performing a routine monthly check of an old coal mine in Shelby County when he noticed "a strong odor of gasoline" as well as a sheen on the surface of one of the retention ponds. The gasoline he was smelling came from Colonial Pipeline's Line 1, an underground pipeline three feet in diameter that normally pushes 1.3 million barrels of gasoline per day from refineries in Houston to distribution centers across the Southeast and along the eastern seaboard. That 36-inch line, built in 1963, has...

GasBuddy.com says fuel prices could spike within a week anywhere from 10 to 30 cents a gallon, and they could stay higher for several weeks. Its analysts are blaming aging refineries for unplanned repairs. When those happen, often the oil companies will tackle maintenance issues, too.

Even as gasoline prices plummeted and the overall energy price index calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics declined, electricity prices bucked the trend in the United States in 2014. Data released today by the BLS indicates that the electricity price indexes hit all-time highs for the month of December and for the year. 2014 was the most-expensive year ever for electricity in the United States. The annual price index for electricity, published by BLS today, was 208.020. That was up from 200.750 in 2013. ... The average price for a kilowatt hour of electricity in the United States was...

So you think you are finally getting one over on the gas stations as you pay well under $3 a gallon for the first time in four years? Guess again. Gas stations love low prices too—and not just because customers are nicer when they are paying less. “We’re in the same shoes as the consumer, the cost of fuel is less for us,” says Kevin Beyer, who owns Performance Fuels, a filling station and convenience store in Smithtown, NY. That means profits for Beyer and the nation’s 127,000 filling stations are rising. Before they sell gas to you, station owners...