Tag: energy

  • Why energy companies aren’t increasing natural gas supplies

    Why energy companies aren’t increasing natural gas supplies

    Bad for consumers but good for investors. Let’s assume just about all investors are also natural gas consumers so this is a double edged sword. According to the Wall Street Journal, in lieu of producing more natural gas U.S. producers are instead shoring up their bottom lines, buying back shares, and providing dividends. The pursuit…

  • American Petroleum Institute proposes U.S. adopt carbon tax

    American Petroleum Institute proposes U.S. adopt carbon tax

    I suspect this proposal will allow oil companies to fight activist investors. I don’t believe in the effectiveness of any carbon tax or cap & trade scheme. The API proposal calls for assessing gasoline wholesalers, power plants and others a tax starting at $35 to $50 a ton for carbon dioxide generated by the fossil…

  • Pembina Pipeline… a solid performer

    Pembina Pipeline… a solid performer

    Reinvesting Warner Bros Discovery into AT&T, help me understand what’s happening with bank stocks, Pembina Pipeline is my best high yield stock, and much much more!

  • CrossAmerica Partners is a winner… so far

    CrossAmerica Partners is a winner… so far

    I sell out of BP, Oil execs on the hot seat, inflation still sky high, and much much more!

  • Shell expects to take $5 billion hit pulling out of Russia

    Shell expects to take $5 billion hit pulling out of Russia

    Shell Midstream Partners (SHLX) has a current dividend yield of 8.37% and is rated as “Boderline Safe” by SimplySafeDividends. I hold SHLX in my Medium Yield Portfolio. In total SHLX is 1.7% of my portfolio. Shell Midstream Partners (SHLX) is owned by Shell PLC (SHEL) The London-based oil major provided the guidance Thursday ahead of…

  • Oil executives reject profiteering claims by Congress

    Oil executives reject profiteering claims by Congress

    It’s not rocket science. Increasing unfriendly regulations on the production and distribution of oil and gasoline will result in higher prices at the pump. Prices were already way above where they were a year prior to the Russia/Ukraine war. The conflict only made matters worse. Congress attacking investors who depend on these investments for their…