#271: Dead Like Disco (4/22/26)

Guest: Lucian (Lou) Pugliaresi is President of the Energy Policy Research Foundation.

https://eprinc.org

Links:

Trump mulls extending waiver to ease U.S. oil shipments

Source: Axios

https://www.axios.com/2026/04/22/trump-oil-jones-act-waiver?utm_source=x&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_campaign=editorial

Phillips 66 and Kinder Morgan advance Western Gateway refined products pipeline project following successful open season

Source: Hydrocarbon Processing

https://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2026/04/phillips-66-and-kinder-morgan-advance-western-gateway-refined-products-pipeline-project-following-successful-open-season/

Why Develop the Social Cost of Blackouts?

Source: Energy Bad Boys

https://energybadboys.substack.com/p/the-price-of-darkness-a-first-look?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1664779&post_id=194442624&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=2sdhe&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

DOJ charges Southern Poverty Law Center with fraud for paying white supremacist groups $3M to ‘stoke racial hatred’

Source: New York Post

https://nypost.com/2026/04/21/us-news/doj-charges-southern-poverty-law-center-with-fraud-for-paying-white-supremacist-groups-3m-to-stoke-racial-hatred/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nypost

When the President of the AAUP Calls Colleagues “Clowns”

Source: AEI - Samuel Abrams and Steven McGuire

https://www.aei.org/society-and-culture/when-the-president-of-the-aaup-calls-colleagues-clowns/