EU Eyes Methane Rule Retreat As Energy Crisis Deepens; IEA Floats Another Emergency Oil Dump

A "Rubbish, Knee-Jerk Reaction": UK Treasury Pushes Food Price Caps As Inflation Re-Accelerates UK supermarkets are being urged by the government to limit food prices in return for easing regulations. As first reported by The Financial Times, the price caps are 'voluntary' and would apply to key groceries – such as eggs, bread, and milk - according to retail industry sources with knowledge of the plans. In return, the government has said it would offer “incentives” to the supermarkets, which the people said could include easing packaging policies and potentially delaying costly...

Energy Drinks Overtake Coffee As Gen Z's Primary Caffeine Source Filippo Falorni, Citi’s lead US equity-research analyst covering beverages and household and personal-care companies, published his latest survey of 2,400 US energy-drink consumers, revealing a significant generational shift in caffeine consumption. Energy drinks, led by category giants Red Bull, Monster, and others, have overtaken coffee as the primary caffeine source among Gen Z consumers. In other words, younger Americans are increasingly abandoning the morning cup of coffee, even as Millennials, Gen Xers, and Baby Boomers continue to rely on it...

Donald Trump has posted yet another threat to his TruthSocial. If Iran does not open the Hormuz Strait in 48 hours, he will target the country’s power plants. The US has the ability to do this. It did it in Iraq. But Iran is not Iraq. Saddam Hussein was not able to do much beyond […]