“A sustained 30–50 cent increase in the cost of petrol could increase EV uptake by 10 per cent, according to modelling by JET Charge”
www.abc.net.au/news/science...
Iranian foreign minister condemns US attack on freshwater desalination plant - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/iranian-foreign-minister-condemns-us-attack-freshwater-desalination
“OpenAI needs to generate $200bn in annual revenue by 2030 to justify their projections. That’s 15x growth in five years while costs keep exploding,”
“One of the great weaknesses of our era is that we get lone superhero movies that suggest that our big problems are solved by muscly guys in spandex, when actually the world mostly gets changed through collective effort”
That is hilarious. Up there with chopper-gate.
Thought you’d get a laugh out of this. Aussies get scandalised at this level of graft. American pollie self-dealing is on a stratospheric level in comparison. bsky.app/profile/jhau...
Fertiliser costs are soaring amid war in the Middle East. Will your grocery bill follow?
theconversation.com/fertiliser-c...
Models show that as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation gets weaker, the Gulf Stream will drift northwards. There are signs that this is already happening, and a more abrupt shift could warn of more severe climate impacts
“Two drones, each measuring 12 centimeter long, 13 cm wide and 4 cm high, are scheduled to be flown a total of 21 times over a period of about two weeks, for roughly 10 minutes each day”
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...
BRENT CRUDE OIL UP 10%, NOW TRADING AT $94, HIGHEST SINCE 2022.
“Saad al-Kaabi, Qatar’s energy minister, told the Financial Times that he predicts all Gulf energy exporters will be forced to shut down production, pushing oil prices higher”
www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/i...
“Every $10 drop in the iron ore price reduces federal tax receipts by roughly $500 million for the 2025–26 financial year (Australian Treasury),” Datt told this publication”
www.investordaily.com.au/chinas-lowes...
Javier Blas
“About 100 million people live in the countries belonging to the Gulf Cooperation Council …Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE are, for all practical purposes, completely dependent on the desalination plants”
www.smh.com.au/business/the...
“Built into the operating system of the phone itself, it has a kind of master key that gives the embedded AI agent blanket access to the screen, all app content, and the ability to tap or click as if it were a user. Critics dubbed the agent a “burglar” with “god’s fingertips””
Yes. The contrast is stark.
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Ros Atkins
Chart showing oil prices rise
US oil prices have passed the $80 a barrel mark for the first time in 13 months, up 45% since December.
US gas prices are set to rise above $3.30 a gallon.
Trump on Iran: “They are calling and saying, “How do we make a deal?” I say, “You are being a little bit late.”
“We want to fight now more than they do.”
BREAKING:
The Justice Department just posted online three FBI interviews that had been missing from the massive trove of Epstein files initially released.
They're related to unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump.
DOC 1: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Susie Wiles is telling Trump’s advisers to come up with ideas to lower gas prices in the wake of the U.S. attack on Iran. Advisers are “getting screamed at to find some good news” on bringing down prices, one energy industry exec told us.
🇮🇷🤯 Tehran
NATO's Mark Rutte: “Iran was one of the key enablers of the Russian war effort against Ukraine through these weapons of destruction…and the fact now that Iran is facing this full onslaught of Israel and the US will also degrade their capacity to export their chaos to Russia and therefore to Ukraine.
McGovern: How the hell is this America first? You guys broke your top campaign promise. Good luck with that. I hope the defense contractor money was worth it. Shame on you all. The mask is off. You're all just a bunch of pathetic Neocon Warmongers.
GAS IS EXPENSIVE
GET OFF GAS
Leavitt: "Ultimately, the energy industry is going to benefit from the president's actions with respect to Iran because Iran will no longer be controlling the Strait of Hormuz and restricting the free flow of energy."
New Brattle report: Europe could get much farther pivoting to "clean flexibility" than it will trying to find alternative gas suppliers.
We're seeing that gas dependence ties you to just as much uncertainty, volatility, & inflation as dependence on oil. The only real independence is clean.
“Countries like ours can compete with each for favour, or combine to create a third path with impact,” he said.
Sejourne suggests EU is becoming more like China
"In China it's not possible to enter the market without a Chinese partner. You need a JV and you're a minority stakeholder. These are criteria which are pretty much standard in international business..."
“90% of scientific studies and hazard assessments underestimated baseline coastal water heights by an average of 30 centimeters…a far more frequent problem in the Global South, the Pacific and Southeast Asia, and less so in Europe and along Atlantic coasts”
