Plugged In

Since founding PetroNerds, Trisha Curtis has been recognized for her passion and expertise in developing strategies based on micro and macro market intelligence with on the ground intel.

Ms. Curtis has a tenacious focus on solving root problems, supporting clients in organizational effectiveness, and developing and implementing growth strategies. She is a trained macroeconomist with a relentless attention to detail.

Ms. Curtis has worked across a broad range of companies, both in and outside the energy sector, with a significant focus on US shale, where she is seen as the leading expert and well-regarded industry speaker and commentator.

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This week we highlight new blogs from IER discussing rising gasoline prices, the aftermath of the Texas blackouts, and Paris going the way of Kyoto.

Links:

Biden May Get His Wish: $100 Oil on the Horizon https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/gas-and-oil/biden-may-get-his-wish-100-oil-on-the-horizon/

The Aftermath of the Texas Blackouts https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/the-grid/the-aftermath-of-the-texas-blackouts/

Paris Is Going the Way of Kyoto https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/international-issues/paris-is-going-the-way-of-kyoto/

This week we highlight a new blog from IER discussing rising gasoline prices. Plus a new episode of the Plugged In podcast featuring Robert Bryce discussing the Texas blackouts.

Blog - Gasoline Prices, Oil Prices Tick Up - https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/gas-and-oil/gasoline-prices-oil-prices-tick-up/

Podcast - The Plugged In Podcast #71: Robert Bryce on Robert Bryce on Texas, Reliability, and Natural Gas Bans -https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/the-grid/the-plugged-in-podcast-71-robert-bryce-the-texas-blackouts/

IER’s president Tom Pyle discussed IER’s work on the oil and gas industry’s contributions to the Coronavirus vaccine at a webinar hosted by the Colorado Oil and Gas Association.

Robert Bryce, an Austin-based journalist and author of six books on energy, joins the show to discuss his experience during the texas blackouts and discusses the importance of diversification in energy sources.

Links:

• This Blizzard Exposes The Perils Of Attempting To ‘Electrify Everything’:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbryce/2021/02/15/this-blizzard-exposes-the-perils-of-attempting-to-electrify-everything/?sh=2d53b9047e15

• Juice: How Electricity Explains The World:

juicethemovie.com/

• Listen to the Power Hungry Podcast:

https://robertbryce.com/power-hungry-podcast/

• Follow Robert Bryce on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/pwrhungry

This week the team highlights recent materials focusing on the extreme weather in Texas and the subsequent blackouts that impacted millions of residents.

Links

• ARTICLE Understanding the Texas Energy Predicament: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/renewable/understanding-the-texas-energy-predicament/

• PODCAST The Plugged In Podcast #70: Kenny Stein on the Texas Blackouts: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/the-grid/the-plugged-in-podcast-70-kenny-stein-on-the-texas-blackouts/

Kenny Stein, IER's Policy Director, joins the show to discuss what went wrong in Texas last week that created conditions for massive blackouts across the state and what Texas can do to avoid future calamities.

Links:

• Texas Plunges Into Electricity Crisis: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/the-grid/texas-plunges-into-electricity-crisis/

• Understanding the Texas Energy Predicament: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/the-grid/understanding-the-texas-energy-predicament/

• Krugman Misses on the Texas Blackout: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/the-grid/krugman-misses-on-the-texas-blackout/

Paul Craney, Spokesperson of the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance, joins the show to discuss the Transportation Climate Initiative, what it would mean for New England and the other states involved, and what is being done to stop its implementation.

Links:

• Follow Paul on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/pauldiegocraney

• Follow the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MassFiscal

• More from the Massachusetts Fiscal Alliance:

https://www.massfiscal.org/

• More on the TCI from MFA: https://www.massfiscal.org/transportation-climate-initiative-tci

• Video of MA Undersecretary for Climate Change David Ismay: "We Have to Break Your Will.": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muxVGmgykA4

• More on this issue from IER:

https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/tag/transportation-and-climate-initiative/

This week the team highlights a recent article focusing on Joe Biden's executive orders aimed at reducing tax deductions utilized by many American energy producers while ignoring the massive subsidies given to renewable energy companies.

Links

• ARTICLE Biden Directs Federal Agencies to Eliminate Fossil Fuel Tax Deductions: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/biden-directs-federal-agencies-to-eliminate-fossil-fuel-tax-deductions/

This week the team highlights a recent article examining Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf's proposal to institute a severance tax on the state's natural gas producers and what it would mean for energy producers and state residents. Plus, get a preview of the latest episode of the Plugged In podcast featuring IER's Director of Policy Kenny Stein on Biden's day one executive orders.

Links

• ARTICLE Pennsylvania Should Resist Natural Gas Severance Tax: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/fossil-fuels/gas-and-oil/pennsylvania-should-resist-natural-gas-severance-tax/

• PODCAST Plugged In Podcast #68: Kenny Stein on President Biden’s Recent Executive Orders: https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/climate-change/plugged-in-podcast-68-kenny-stein-on-president-bidens-recent-executive-orders/