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'Tank Bottoms' Loom At Cushing After Across-The-Board Inventory Draws, Another Huge SPR Drain Oil prices bounced higher overnight after the US and Iran exchanged new strikes despite their purported ceasefire, rekindling uncertainty about an end to the Middle East war. The latest strikes were the most serious since an April ceasefire, and came despite a series of headlines suggesting talks on a deal were progressing. "A fresh exchange of strikes between the two countries is testing the fragile ceasefire and forcing a reassessment of the chances of a near-term agreement which can...

Bill Gates Predicts A Billion Deaths Via Evolutionary Event Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Bill Gates is back on the Sunday-show circuit spreading doom and predicting a massive reduction in the human population. In an exclusive Meet the Press interview set to air this weekend, the Microsoft co-founder told Kristen Welker that artificial intelligence is "certainly powerful enough to drive events that... cause a billion deaths" - then used the line to demand federal legislation, law-enforcement monitoring, and an end to industry self-regulation. Gates is touting AI as a species-level emergency, and...

Solar Overtakes Coal As China's Largest Power Source Authored by Tsvetana Paraskova via OilPrice.com, Solar power has just become the single largest electricity capacity source in China, toppling coal in a landmark achievement of the Chinese renewable energy rollout. Solar power capacity in China stood at 1,286 gigawatts (GW) at the end of July, Chinese media cited the country's National Energy Administration as saying on Tuesday. Thus, solar capacity accounted for 31.5% of total installed power generation in China as of July 31. In July, Chinese authorities said that China would have more installed...