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Gas prices fluctuate in Middle Tennessee
Source: WSMV

SYLVAN PARK, Tenn. (WSMV) - Gas prices in the country continue to be all over the map.

At some California gas stations, prices are hitting $6 per gallon whereas in Texas some places have dropped under $3.

In Middle Tennessee, prices continue to fluctuate.

Terry Hamm lives in West Nashville and said that he loves to support the local economy, but he can only go so far which is why he lives out in Cheatham County.

“It’s pretty simple to explain,” said Hamm. “I live in Sylvan, but gas prices are just cheaper out here.”
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Researchers' flow platform advances water harvesting technology
https://techxplore.com/news/2022-10-pla ... ology.html
by Kim Horner, University of Texas at Dallas

This summer's megadrought in the western U.S. and the failure of a Mississippi water treatment plant have demonstrated the need for alternative ways to access water during shortages.

One solution to water scarcity is harvesting water from air. Dr. Xianming "Simon" Dai, assistant professor of mechanical engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at The University of Texas at Dallas, is working on technology to make it possible for anyone to have an affordable, portable device that could access water anywhere, anytime conceivably using no external energy.

Dai and his team of researchers recently advanced that technology by developing a novel platform to accelerate the harvesting process. The team demonstrated the platform in a study published online Aug. 29 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The platform solves a key problem in water harvesting: Collected water droplets form a thermal barrier that prevents further condensation, so they need to be removed from the surface as rapidly as possible to make room for more harvesting.
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weatheriscool wrote: Wed Sep 07, 2022 8:41 pm Great news! We need more oil and gas to drive down the cost and to help people in need.
Why do you continue to post this nonsense? Fracking will make bugger-all difference to UK energy bills.

To identify the drilling sites, obtain planning approval (in the face of massive local opposition), install the infrastructure, and scale up production will take many years – by which time, renewables will have plummeted to even lower costs than now.

Also, UK shale deposits are more geologically complex than in the US, meaning you have to drill deeper. Even a best-case scenario means fracking would produce only a tiny percentage of UK gas.

In any case, and more to the point, the oil and gas will simply be sold to the highest bidder at international prices.

But hey, it's great for making a few rich people even richer, increasing our emissions, poisoning local water and ecosystems, diminishing air quality, damaging local properties with 3.0 magnitude earthquakes, and making us even more dependent on a finite energy source.

Please wake up. By far the quickest and best way to bring down energy bills is to accelerate the production of solar, wind, and other renewables. Combined with improvements in home insulation, energy efficiency, etc.
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weatheriscool wrote: Fri Sep 23, 2022 5:59 pm Oil Prices Tumble to Their Lowest Level Since January
Source: Ny Times
The U.S. benchmark oil price tumbled below $80 a barrel on Friday for the first time since January as traders grew increasingly worried that much of the world was headed into a recession or was already in one.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/23/busi ... rices.html
It is a real bummer that here in the United States the way to beat recession is to watch the world go into a recession. There must be a better way. Something like increase levels of production, paying down government debt, and raising taxes on the top one percent who stand to benefit from stimulative economic practices. Cutting defense spending would also help, although the need to hold in check certain aggressive leaders lessens our flexibility in that regard.
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Saudi Arabia lowers oil prices for Europe but raises them again for the US as White House says OPEC+
Source: Markets Insider
Saudi Arabia is raising oil prices for the US market again, while lowering them for Europe and leaving them largely unchanged for Asia.

November shipments of Arab Light crude to Asia from state-run producer Saudi Aramco will remain steady at $5.85 per barrel above benchmark prices. A Bloomberg survey estimated prices in Asia, the kingdom's top market, would rise by $0.40 per barrel.

Elsewhere, Saudi Aramco hiked prices by $0.20 a barrel for all US grades, while northwest Europe and the Mediterranean saw declines. While Asian prices for the company's light oil was flat, its medium and heavy-grade crude prices ticked up in Asia by $0.25.

Last month, Saudi Aramco also lowered prices in Europe and raised them in the US.
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Incredible thread –

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477 whales die in 'heartbreaking' New Zealand strandings
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By NICK PERRY

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Some 477 pilot whales have died after stranding themselves on two remote New Zealand beaches over recent days, officials say.

None of the stranded whales could be refloated and all either died naturally or were euthanized in a “heartbreaking” loss, said Daren Grover, the general manager of Project Jonah, a nonprofit group which helps rescue whales.

The whales beached themselves on the Chatham Islands, which are home to about 600 people and located about 800 kilometers (500 miles) east of New Zealand’s main islands.

The Department of Conservation said 232 whales stranded themselves Friday at Tupuangi Beach and another 245 at Waihere Bay on Monday.
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Saudis say US sought 1 month delay of OPEC+ production cuts
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By JON GAMBRELL
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Saudi Arabia said Thursday that the U.S. had urged the kingdom to postpone a decision by OPEC and its allies — including Russia — to cut oil production by a month. Such a delay could have helped reduce the risk of a spike in gas prices ahead of the U.S. midterm elections next month.

A statement issued by the Saudi Foreign Ministry didn’t specifically mention the Nov. 8 elections in which U.S. President Joe Biden is trying to maintain his narrow Democratic majority in Congress. However, it stated that the U.S. “suggested” the cuts be delayed by a month. In the end, OPEC announced the cuts at its Oct. 5 meeting in Vienna.

Holding off on cuts would have meant implementing them just before the Nov. 8 election — at a time when they likely couldn’t drastically influence prices at the pump.

Rising oil prices — and by extension higher gasoline prices — have been a key driver of inflation in the U.S. and around the world, worsening global economic woes as Russia’s months-long war on Ukraine also has disrupted global food supplies. For Biden, gasoline prices creeping up could affect voters. He and many lawmakers have warned that America’s longtime security-based relationship with the kingdom could be reconsidered.




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Oil flow to Germany resumes after Poland fixed pipeline leak
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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish operator of an oil pipeline running to Germany said Saturday that it has fixed the damage that caused a leak earlier this week and that the flow of crude oil from Russia has been fully restored.

The state-run operator, PERN, said that both lines of the Druzhba pipeline were operating normally, transporting oil.

It said that the cause of the leak that occurred Tuesday in a field in central Poland is still being investigated.

The Druzhba pipeline, which in Russian means “Friendship,” was built in the 1960s and is one of the world’s largest pipeline systems, bringing crude oil from Siberia to central Europe. It branches to reach Belarus, Ukraine, Poland, Hungary, Austria and Germany.


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