Are you familiar with the Scales of Justice? Picture our energy use on a similar scale. Hanging on the left is our consumption. Humans need about 2000 calories to survive, but we Americans consume 100 times that amount. More than just our food, those 200,000 daily calories are embedded in things we like: iphones, air conditioning, cosmetics, and virtually everything else we touch throughout the day. On the right side of the scale is our energy supply. The two largest co

The oil shock will be mild and short‑lived? Not so fast. Roughly 20 million barrels per day (mbpd) normally flow through the Strait of Hormuz. Emergency workarounds are moving about 8 mbpd, leaving 12 mbpd offline—about 12% of global oil supply. That is unprecedented. For comparison: The 1973 OPEC embargo removed about 7% of global supply—and oil prices quadrupled. The 1979 Iran crisis removed about 4%. The relatively mild 2022 Russia shock removed 3%, yet oil still briefly h

We conventional oil and gas producers in Pennsylvania have listened to the energy conversation for years, and for the last decade it’s been dominated by talk of “transitioning away” from oil & gas. Solar panels and wind turbines get the headlines. But the past month, since the Iran war erupted, have exposed a truth the pundits refuse to face: oil and gas aren’t optional. They are the foundation of modern life. And the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz is about to prove it i

For conventional oil and gas producers in Pennsylvania, the EPA’s February 12 rollback of the greenhouse gas “endangerment finding” represents more than a regulatory change—it is a long‑overdue course correction. For years, the 2009 endangerment finding served as the legal foundation for sweeping federal climate regulations under the Clean Air Act, including the OOOO framework that required expensive electronic leak detection and extensive record-keeping. Those rules were imp