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“Together in Electric Dreams” – Electric Vehicle Evolution or Revolution?
By Ryan Couture and John Auers The promise of the electric car has been on the horizon since the late 1800s. Many of the first automobiles were electric, back when internal combustion engines (ICE)...
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2020 or 2025: The Decision Has Been Made
This week’s blog is by Dr. Rudy Kassinger The International Maritime Organization (IMO), at the 70th session of the Marine Environmental Protection Committee (MEPC) approved 2020 as the effective date...
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“Together in Electric Dreams” – Challenges to EV Market Penetration
By Ryan Couture and John Auers Two weeks ago (“Together in Electric Dreams” – Electric Vehicle Evolution or Revolution?), we began a discussion regarding the growth of electric vehicles (EVs)...
View Article“Happy Days Are Here Again” or Are They? – What Do the U.S. Election Results...
By: John Auers You can probably forgive many in the hydrocarbon industry for going to bed last Tuesday with the lyrics from FDR’s old campaign theme song stuck in their heads. As it became clear that...
View Article“Like Breathing in Sulfur” – Impacts of the Latest Low Sulfur Initiative,...
By: Beth Hilbourn and John Auers The American metal band “Slipknot” probably isn’t on many (if any) of the jukeboxes in the honky tonks and icehouses located in the USGC refining corridor; however as...
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An Early Christmas, but for Whom? – An Analysis of EPA’s Finalization of 2017...
By: Elizabeth Hilbourn and John Auers On the day before Thanksgiving, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued its finalized 2017 Renewable Volume Obligations (RVOs) at levels higher than...
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“Windy City Blues” – Chicago Area Refiners Struggle With Growing Gasoline...
By John Auers The city of Chicago is known for a lot of things, both good and bad – pizza/good, crime/bad, Cubs/used to be bad/now good; Bears/used to be good/now bad, etc. From a refiner’s...
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“Gimme Shelter” – Refiners Seek Relief by Moving the RFS Obligation Downstream
By Elizabeth Hilbourn and John Auers Just as the The Rolling Stones sang about a need to get “shelter” from a world where war and everyday violence was closing in back in the late 60’s, U.S. refiners...
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Both Sides Now – U.S. Production Growth Returning?
John Auers and John Mayes The U.S. upstream industry can certainly relate to the feelings expressed in Joni Mitchell’s classic 1960’s folk song about clouds, especially given the dramatic ups and downs...
View ArticleMerry 3rd Day of Christmas
By John Auers We here at Turner, Mason & Company, both individually and collectively, continue to be blessed beyond belief and hope all of you receive similar blessings in the days and months to...
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Won’t Get Fooled Again – Refiners Become Cautious
By John Auers and Andy Hill In recent years refiners around the world have found lots of reasons to invest in new refinery projects. Strong demand growth in the developing economies of Asia led to...
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The Spinning Wheel of Gasoline and Distillate Demand
By John Auers and John Mayes The 1969 Blood, Sweat and Tears song – “Spinning Wheel” – begins with the words, “What goes up, must come down, Spinning wheel got to go round.” Like a spinning wheel,...
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Alternative
By John Auers and Elizabeth Hilbourn Alternative rock is a genre of rock music that refers specifically to the punk/new wave-rooted style that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the...
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An America First Energy Plan
By John Auers and Elizabeth Hilbourn Last Friday, many (just how many is certainly a point of contention) people watched, either in person or remotely, Donald J. Trump’s inauguration as the 45th...
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Backwards Masking, Phonetic Reversals and Other Crude Tricks
By John Auers and Elizabeth Hilbourn Pink Floyd’s song, “Empty Spaces,” contains a heavily-buried engineered reversed vocal in the beginning minute or so, that is described as a ‘secret message’:...
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (And Now Also Ships) – How New IMO Bunker...
By John Auers and John Mayes Since Henry Ford first started the automotive revolution with his perfection of assembly line manufacturing methods, demand for transportation fuels has been the major...
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PROMISES MADE, PROMISES KEPT – Trump advances DAPL and KXL; What does it Mean?
John Mayes and John Auers In the very first week of his Presidency, Donald Trump did a a somewhat rare thing for a politician, he quickly fulfilled a campaign promise by signing two Presidential...
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Down in Mexico – When it Comes to Oil, There’s a Lot Going On South of the...
Authors: John Auers and John Mayes The song, “Down in Mexico,” has traveled an interesting path since it was first recorded by the Coasters in the late 1950’s. Since then, it has appeared in a...
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“On the Road Again” or Rather “When Will Motorists Get on the Road Again?” –...
John Auers and John Mayes While low prices have made life tough for U.S. crude producers over the last couple of years, those same low prices have been a cause of celebration for motorists and refiners...
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“Should I Stay or Should I Go?” – Confusion Reigns on What’s to Become of the...
By John Mayes and John Auers Government programs can often be very confusing and arbitrary and what’s worse, they can sometimes change at the whim of policymakers. For refiners, there is perhaps no...
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