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U.S. oil production booms as new year begins

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Very interesting. Incidentally, about 70% of Hawaii's electricity is generated with oil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Hawaii?wprov=sfla1

Doesn't geothermal work for Hawaii? It works just fine for the Azores.

You are correct; I didn't know about this for Hawaii: https://www.hawaiianelectric.com/clean-energy-hawaii/clean-e...

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Does anyone know how the extraction cost of shale compare to the declining cost of solar? Are we at the point already where some oil fields become non-profitable?

> Does anyone know how the extraction cost of shale compare to the declining cost of solar? The solar market is so tiny it doesn't matter in the energy discussion. Despite what you read from the cheerleaders ( paid or unpaid ) on social media and the news. The two important changes in energy markets the last decade are fracking/shale oil and natural gas. That's it. > Are we at the point already where some oil fields…

>I think Trump is very pro-energy

Trump is very pro-fossil fuel energy. He is doing everything he can to crush solar, wind, and EV's.

Re: U.S. oil production booms as new year begins

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This is really bad news for Russia. Fracking is now profitable at $60 a barrel, so the price of oil can never go above that. And fracking technology is new, so we can expect to improve further and make production profitable at a lower cost, so prices will gradually get even lower still.

It is also bad news for Saudi Arabia. But that country realizes it and is working hard to expand its economy into other areas, whereas Russia remains focused on oil.

Any Putin fans out there who want to argue that he really knows what he is doing on energy?

Re: U.S. oil production booms as new year begins

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Does anyone know how the extraction cost of shale compare to the declining cost of solar? Are we at the point already where some oil fields become non-profitable?

While solar is starting to represent a significant share of new generating capacity, it's not really material to the oil market, because they don't much directly compete for the same uses over the short term.
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