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16/10/2026

(October 16, 2026) SpaceX wants to start flying its Starship mega-rocket a lot more often. The company has requested permission to launch Starship from its Starbase site in South Texas up to 456 times per year. That's a big jump from the currently allowed cadence of 25. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is in the early stages of reviewing the request. Today (Oct. 14), the agency announced "its intent to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, open a public scoping period and hold public scoping meetings for SpaceX’s proposal."

Starship, which stands more than 400 feet (122 meters) tall, is the biggest and most powerful rocket ever built. It's also designed to be fully and rapidly reusable, a breakthrough that SpaceX believes will revolutionize spaceflight. The mega-rocket has flown 14 times to date, all of them test flights from Starbase, which is near the Texas border city of Brownsville. On the most recent jaunt, which lifted off on Sept. 28, Starship reached orbit for the first time and deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites — the first members of a new broadband constellation that could eventually consist of 100,000 spacecraft.

Assembling that network will require a lot of Starship launches. And even more will be needed to build SpaceX's planned Star-Mind AI Mega Constellation, which Elon Musk has said will harbor a million satellites. Indeed, the world's richest man has said that SpaceX is targeting more than 10,000 Starship liftoffs per year by 2030. Not all of those flights will originate from Starbase, which hosts two orbital pads. SpaceX is working to get three Starship pads up and running on Florida's Space Coast, and the company aims to break ground on a $100 billion, 12-pad complex in Louisiana next year.

Each operational Starship launch will also feature two landings. Both of the vehicle's elements — the Super Heavy booster and Ship upper stage — are designed to return to the pad after liftoff, where they will be caught by the tower's "chopstick" arms. So SpaceX's proposal for 456 launches from Starbase per year includes a request for approval for 912 landings. SpaceX plans to work up to this cadence in two phases, according to the FAA. Phase 1 "would include up to 100 annual launches and up to 200 annual landings (100 of Starship and 100 of Super Heavy)," the agency wrote. "Launches and landings could occur any day or time of the week."

Phase 2 covers 456 launches and 912 landings, which would occur only Monday through Friday, though at any time on those days. The FAA will hold five "public scoping meetings" about the proposal next month, four of them in person in the Starbase area and one of them virtual.

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-wants-to-launch-starship-more-than-450-times-per-year-from-south-texas

16/10/2026

(October 16, 2026) Oil "glut" is coming to an end sooner than you think.

Globally, the squeeze on crude oil is serious, Aramco President and CEO Amin H. Nasser said.

16/10/2026

(October 15, 2026) While Canada has been pi**ed Trump slapped tariffs on all things Canadian, their hope that tariffs will go away once Trump leaves in 2029 may NOT happen if a Democrat replaces him. You see, tariffs to protected AMERICAN jobs and products like autos, steel, lumber have been historically SUPPORTED by UNIONS, the frontline of Democrat politicians. It is Republicans that were traditional "Free-Traders" unlike Trump. Plus, there are Republicans from UNION states like Ohio. Tariffs protect their jobs. While farmers that grow cash crops for export, there are domestic farmer and fishermen that have fought foreign imports (Shrimpers in Louisiana that are hurt by importing farm-raised shrimp from Asia). They feel NOT SO FAST ending tariffs.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford said Canada must prepare for the possibility that U.S. trade protectionism will last well beyond President Donald Trump’s administration.

16/10/2026

(October 15, 2026)

The move aims to restore biofuels demand for farmers after recent exemptions, while shifting compliance costs to refiners that did not receive breaks.

14/10/2026

(October 14, 2026) Ford found the secret to sell an electric truck, CUT THE PRICE IN HALF. Ford ended production of it electric F-150, that was priced at $79,000 and producing only sad sales. Now it was discontinued, used electric F-150 sell for $40,000. What a surprise, it was overpriced besides being under "powered", that is not the able to pull its own weight.

On the used market, Lightning prices are comparable to those of gas-powered F-150s. At parity, it appears customers like the EV version as much or more than the traditional machine.

24/09/2026

(September 24, 2026) Trump gets pi**ed off that diesel prices are too high. His solution, ban diesel exports and build up domestic supply to drop the price. Big oil reminds him they are GLOBAL companies, not "America First". They profit selling refined diesel overseas. The conflict between Trump's America First vision and globalist industry come to a head. The globalist refiners threaten, stop the exports and they will just refine less diesel. While the oil companies seem to have the upper hand, Congress is ready to pass the same laws they once enacted to ban exports of petroleum and petroleum products, it was done during the Energy Crises of the 1970's. This time they may be the rare situation that bi-partisan support exist to pass the law and Trump WILL sign it. The battle begins.

Oil and gas executives have cautioned against it, warning that any restriction on U.S. crude and fuel exports would provide only short-term relief before ultimately backfiring.

18/09/2026

(September 18, 2026) AES is "going off the grid" that is sell all its public stock and will become a privately owned company Global Infrastructure Partners, subsidiary of BlackRock, and the EQT Infrastructure VI fund. Because utilities are regulated by the state, they cannot pass on the expense of the buyout by raising electric rates. It's not illegal, not even unethical because an individual or group of individual investors with enough money could buy all the public stock available. AES will still be the public operator, and you will see nothing change and will still get your bill from AES.

The Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved the acquisition of AES Ohio’s parent company by a consortium led by Global Infrastructure Partners and EQT Infrastructure VI, marking a key regulatory step in the $33 billion deal first announced in March and supporting continuity for customers and ...

16/09/2026

(September 16, 2026)

LOS ANGELES — September 9, 2026. Hermeus today announced it is developing Ramjet-X, a low-cost, expendable ramjet-powered vehicle designed for launch from its Quarterhorse aircraft. Once released, Ramjet-X will fly at high-Mach speeds.

16/09/2026

(September 16, 2026) Congress never gave EPA the authority to remake America’s power grid. The Supreme Court confirmed that limit in West Virginia v. EPA.

In 2015, under the Obama administration, the EPA implemented the Clean Power Plan to regulate limits for CO2 emissions from coal and natural gas power plants, using its authority under the Clean Air Act, which allowed the agency to take actions to address air pollution problems. The move was designed to promote a shift away from coal to cleaner power sources, such as natural gas and renewables. The supreme court case was based on a challenge by West Virginia, one of the U.S.’ largest producers of coal, to the EPA’s initiative.

In its 6-3 decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court found that the EPA did not have Congressional authority to devise emissions caps to promote a shift from high-emissions to low-emissions energy generation sources, and that the federal agency had not been granted authority by Congress to implement regulations with such “economic and political significance.” Roberts wrote:

“EPA claimed to discover an unheralded power representing a transformative expansion of its regulatory authority in the vague language of a long-extant, but rarely used, statute designed as a gap filler. That discovery allowed it to adopt a regulatory program that Congress had conspicuously declined to enact itself. “

The final rule strikes most of the 2024 Carbon Pollution Standards, which EPA has determined exceeded the agency's authority under the CAA by requiring control technologies that are not adequately demonstrated, effectively forcing plants to retire rather than setting standards they could actually meet. The 2024 rule also failed to account for the U.S. Supreme Court decision in West Virginia v. EPA, which barred EPA from misusing the CAA to manipulate Americans’ energy choices. The manipulation in the 2024 rule created inefficient uses of natural gas, adversely impacted the nation’s energy systems, and drove electricity prices up. The 2024 rule was another example of the Democrats’ war on America's natural resources and attempted to achieve the same unlawful fuel-shifting goals of the Obama-era Clean Power Plan.

Concurrently with today’s final rule, EPA is proposing to rescind all remaining GHG emissions requirements for power plants, which have imposed unnecessary requirements and drained the power sector’s resources, while producing virtually no benefit. Following the repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding, and the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, EPA’s proposal states that CAA Section 111 does not give the agency the authority to regulate power plant emissions based on climate change. Models continue to show that GHG emissions from power plants have no material impact on global climate change. In fact, if all carbon dioxides were eliminated tomorrow, there would be no meaningful climate impact.

Additionally, the targeted emissions are global in nature, and any potential public health harms are too uncertain, conjectural, remote, and convoluted to tie specifically to the U.S. power sector. Therefore, the agency is proposing it is out of its scope to regulate. If finalized, American businesses will be given certainty for the future, empowering them to unleash the full potential of American energy and provide it at an affordable price for families.

Baseload power is essential to the great American story, powering generations of manufacturing, good-paying jobs, and communities. Together, the coal and natural gas industries support hundreds of thousands of jobs and add tens of billions of dollars to the U.S. economy each year. The nation’s power plants provide reliable, affordable energy essential to national security, heating homes, and keeping schools lit. But for nearly two decades, the Obama and Biden administrations worked to destroy coal and natural gas, threatening our energy security and driving up costs for everyday Americans. In contrast, the Trump EPA has delivered billions in cost savings for baseload power.

Even though the Supreme Court has decided the EPA does not have the authority from Congress to regulate the power system of the nation based on the hypothetical statistical predictions a hundred years in the future. The environmental laws are only meant for EXISTING pollution that is causing EXISTING human health problems and have ALREADY destroyed the environment, not what might happen.

Today, U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the repeal of the majority of the Biden administration's greenhouse gas requirements for U.S. power plants and proposed rescinding every remaining greenhouse gas standard for the power sector.

15/09/2026

(September 15, 2026) General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc., one of the world’s largest drone producers, is growing near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, with plans for new offices and 50 new jobs.

GA-ASI is expanding its footprint into a newer 22,000-square-foot building, with the backing of Beavercreek’s Synergy Building Systems, the company announced Monday, Sept. 14.

General Atomics is expanding to Synergy’s “Project Kona” building at 4123 Col. Glenn Highway.

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. is expanding near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base with a new 22,000-square-foot facility, creating 50 new jobs and significantly increasing its local footprint to support UAS hardware, software, and autonomy development.