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• Study: Soaring gas turbine prices strain project plans
  A new report from GridLab, Energy Futures Group, Component Reliability...
  A new report from GridLab, Energy Futures Group, Component Reliability Consultants and Halcyon found that US gas turbine projects scheduled for 2030 or 2031 are consistently reporting costs above $2,000 per kilowatt, up to 75% higher than near-term prices. Researchers attribute this increase to a mix of surging demand, supply chain issues and higher costs for materials and labor. The study cautions that these pressures are unlikely to ease soon, leading to longer project timelines, higher utility bills and planning risks if outdated cost assumptions remain in use.
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• Senate fails to pass government shutdown-averting bill
  Majority-holding House Republicans passed a bill yesterday to fund the...
  Majority-holding House Republicans passed a bill yesterday to fund the government through much of November, but it failed to clear the Senate, where it needed 60 votes. The government’s chances of keeping the lights on are now slim, since Congress is in recess until after Oct. 1, when its current funding runs out. Democrats refused to support the GOP plan to keep federal funding at roughly the same level with an emergency $88 million to bolster security for government officials in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination. The party put forward its own bill—which also failed—to fund the government until Oct. 31, but with $326 million in security funds, an extension of Obamacare subsidies scheduled to expire at the end of the year, and a rollback of Medicaid cuts enacted by the recent Republican-backed budget.
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• ☕️What Else is Brewing Saturday Morning
  CDC panel votes to end universal COVID-19 vaccine recommendation. A...
  CDC panel votes to end universal COVID-19 vaccine recommendation. A panel of health advisors picked by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted yesterday to drop the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidance that everyone older than 6 months get a Covid shot. If the CDC approves the new guidance, Americans will be advised to consult with a doctor before vaccination. But many health experts worry that ending the blanket recommendations could make it more difficult to access Covid vaccines for those who want them. The panel also voted to stop recommending a combined measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella vaccine for young children in favor of administering the varicella (or chickenpox) vaccine separately, and it put off a decision on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for newborns.
  
  President Trump signed an order to raise the fee for H1-B visas—a program for skilled workers often used by the tech industry—to $100,000.
  
  The iPhone 17 line went on sale at Apple stores worldwide yesterday, in case you were wondering what all those lines were for.
  
  A federal judge tossed President Trump’s $15 billion defamation lawsuit against the New York Times for now, but ruled that a shorter version that’s more focused on the allegations rather than on praising the president and criticizing his foes could be refiled.
  
  Estonia said three Russian warplanes flew into its airspace for 12 minutes yesterday. This comes after Russian planes also recently breached the airspace of fellow NATO members Poland and Romania.
  
  A bipartisan duo introduced a bill to exempt coffee from President Trump’s heightened tariffs, hoping to curb rising costs for the morning staple, which is typically grown outside the US
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• DAILY OIL PRICE: September 19, 2025
  Crude Oil: 62.68   (-0.89)....
  
  
  • Crude Oil: 62.68   (-0.89).
  
  
  • Nymex MTD AVG: 63.1019.
  
  
  • Natural Gas: 2.888   (-0.051).
  
  
  • Gasoline: 1.9707   (-0.0407).
  
  
  • Spreads: October/November (+0.28)     November/December (+0.42).
  
  
  • Plains WTI Posting: 59.16   (-0.89).
  
  

  
  Source: Odessa American
  
  
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• Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq close at fresh records as U.S. stocks score weekly gains
  All three major U.S. stock indexes closed at all-time...

  All three major U.S. stock indexes closed at all-time highs on Friday, booking weekly gains in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s decision to lower interest rates.

  
  

  The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4%, while the S&P 500 gained 0.5% and the Nasdaq Composite climbed 0.7%, according to preliminary data from FactSet. The S&P 500 index notched its 27th record closing peak of the year.

  
  

  For the week, the S&P 500 gained 1.2%, the Dow increased 1.1% and the tech-heavy Nasdaq rallied 2.2%, the preliminary data from FactSet showed.

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