Crude Oil WTI Plunged by 24%, Back Below $88, from $116 Overnight. Gasoline Futures -16%. Manic Speculation Unwinds by Wolf Richter • Mar 9, 2026 • 45 Comments The Futures Market is where the Imbeciles go nuts.
Crude Oil WTI Spikes by 28% Overnight to $116, Gasoline Futures +17%. Asian Stocks Plunge, US Stock Futures Deep Red by Wolf Richter • Mar 8, 2026 • 101 Comments For the US, the Strait of Hormuz blockage is a Price Shock and inflation problem, not a Supply Shock. For Europe & Asia, it could turn into a Supply Shock if the blockage persists.
U.S. Gasoline Demand Fell Further amid Long-Term Structural Shift: Plunging Per-Capita Consumption by Wolf Richter • Mar 4, 2026 • 70 Comments Even as miles driven rose to a record.
Oil Jumps, but It’s Not the 1970s anymore: US Crude Oil Production Hits Record, Net Exports Soar, Imports Decline by Wolf Richter • Mar 3, 2026 • 38 Comments The US has become a large exporter of value-added petroleum products, including diesel and gasoline.
Drill Baby Drill for 20+ Years: US Natural Gas Production Jumps to Record, Exports via LNG & Pipeline Spike to Record in 2025 by Wolf Richter • Mar 2, 2026 • 30 Comments And the price of US natural gas fell back to where it had been 30 years ago.
WHOOSH Goes Demand for Electricity. US Power Generation by Source in 2025: Natural Gas, Coal, Nuclear, Wind, Hydro, Solar, Biomass, Geothermal, Petroleum by Wolf Richter • Feb 24, 2026 • 96 Comments Amid a struggle to power AI data centers.
Energy Inflation for Households: Electricity, Natural Gas Piped to the Home, Gasoline, and Other Fuels by Wolf Richter • Jan 19, 2026 • 88 Comments Demand for electricity has surged, and so has the price.
Is it Really Different this Time? by Wolf Richter • Oct 10, 2025 • 190 Comments AI is huge. But so is the mania of hype, hocus-pocus deals, and piles of real money fortified by leverage that caused stock prices to explode.
Price Arbitrage (Buy Low, Sell High) Dominates the Use of Utility-Scale Battery Systems by Wolf Richter • Sep 22, 2025 • 39 Comments Utility-scale battery capacity tripled in two years. California and Texas are the giants.
Collapse of the Once High-Flying Solar Stocks: Another Bankruptcy among our 8 Imploded Solar Stocks by Wolf Richter • Jun 9, 2025 • 56 Comments The stock market’s solar craziness gets cleaned out stock by stock, even as solar-power generation continues to soar.
