The hard on some people have for their being no solution but to lock everyone up for the year plus it will take for a vaccine is getting old.

As a front-line healthcare worker, although I agree with much of what you say, what are the alternatives? Yes, as COVID-19 spreads, people will get sick and a horrifying percentage (maybe as low as 0.2%, still A LOT of people) will die.

I was hopeful until I read the “another part of the timeline” bit.

Honorable Mention for Who Wants to be a Superhero?

yes. correct. But is hilarious trying to do that against the US. Sure, you’ll drive current frackers out of business, but to think that there won’t be new producers jumping in the second oil starts broaching 40$ is crazy. If their plan is produce oil at $5 a barrel ad naseum, then have it. you drove us production out…

Correct me if I am wrong, but falling demand isn’t the only cause of falling prices. Haven’t the Saudis and the Russians been engaged in an openly secret price war since early March?

um....what

As a libertarian who believes that a free market and robust property rights are necessary parts of making progress on hard environmental issues, part of that is letting dinosaur industries die when the market signals they are no longer wanted.

Um excuse me but your facts are killing the vibe man

Elsewhere on Earther, a blog appeared that said that emissions had decreased 30% due to the epidemic.

State with the 2nd Largest Population in the Country and 10th place in COVID Cases (19,513 w/ 503 deaths). I’d call that winning for sure. 

Time to fill up my extra 1gal tank in the garage and put that bad boy in the gun safe!

Little bit of clarification for non-energy nerds: This was the WTI May futures contract, which expires tomorrow. That means that if you hold one of these contracts, you are about to have to take physical delivery of the oil at Cushing, OK. Normally this is the point that traders would offload their contracts to…

You are leaving out that oil futures contracts which expire tomorrow and are underwater turned negative, not spot market prices. Look at the June, July, etc prices to understand this is only speculators losing money on futures contracts. No producer is paying $39 for someone to take their oil. The entire basis for…

Does it come with the barrels themselves, or can I get a 1000-barrel barrel from Costco? Crate and Barrel are apparently not selling barrels.

With their ample wind production and low rates of coronavirus infections? 

Whale oil!  Somebody launch Pequod 2.

Every oilfield worker i know

Honestly I’m on board just to see Dave Filoni talk about Star Wars. Dude always just GETS it.

Well, “May the 25th Be With You” doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue, now does it?