ENERGY

Oil prices ended the day marginally down from one-month-highs, amid some notable swings intraday, after Libya recently restarted production at its largest oil field.

The pullback in prices came "in conjunction with no new developments in the Red Sea and the opening of Libya's largest oil field," said Rania Gule, market analyst at XS.com.

Ongoing tensions in the Middle East and weather-related oil production disruptions in North Dakota also remain top of mind for traders (more…)

Uranium production in Cigar Lake, Canada is the highest-grade in the world.

Since 2014, the site has mined 105 million pounds of the radioactive metal, which is naturally occurring on Earth.

It is the largest uranium mine on the planet.

For context, an egg-sized amount of uranium fuel can generate as much electric power as 88 tonnes of coal.

Given its vast uranium deposits, Canada has produced the most uranium worldwide since 1945.

This graphic, via (more…)

Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours),

A coalition of 17 retired military officials led by retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. James Marks have warned that President Joe Biden’s push for mass electric vehicle (EV) adoption is a threat to national security.

An electric vehicle charging station in Irvine, Calif., on Nov. 28, 2023. (John Fredricks/The Epoch Times)

In a Jan. 17 letter to President Biden and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael (more…)