Flacky

Quotes I heard at CERAWeek Day 2: "We cannot think about future energy systems being energy systems that are, in essence, built for perfection. They need to be built for resilience. They need to be able to withstand failure." - Wael Sawan, CEO, Shell "It's not just good enough to talk about low-carbon solutions. They need to be profitable, and they need to be scalable." - Wael Sawan, CEO, Shell "If there's one thing I found over the years in meeting and interacting with extraordinarily successful people in every walk of life, if there's one trait they have in common, it's curiosity. And so I think, if we think about AI, it is the next great generator of curiosity." - Brad Smith, President, Microsoft "The innovation curve always accelerates earlier and faster than the diffusion. If you ask what is the biggest obstacle to the adoption of new technology, it's not just electricity and data centers and better products, it's people." - Brad Smith, President, Microsoft "So right now, using available capacity slack in the system, renewables are the quickest to market, solar, storage, onshore wind, and then a ton of gas. It's gas, gas, gas." - George Bilicic, Managing Director, Lazard "The world does not need America to be wobbly. The world needs America to be straight, strong, consistent, fair." - Mary Landrieu, former U.S. Senator "The highest electricity prices in the country are in California, or they're in the Northeast. And guess what? The Northeast has been against natural gas and pipelines." - Jarrod Agen, National Energy Dominance Council "A lot of times these policy changes, they start as small, little kernels, they're seeds, and then they grow into giant oak trees. I think that's what permitting reform could be if we get this right this year in this Congress." - Mike Sommers, President & CEO, American Petroleum Institute "The great risk is not that AI will replace people, but that organizations overestimate the automation and underestimate the importance of people." - Renata Baruzzi, Chief Digital Transformation Officer, Petrobras "Fear factor is overhyped. AI is not the risk, poor integration of AI is." — Rakesh Jaggi, SLB "If somebody is telling you that this is simple to do, they are either selling you general-purpose AI tools, or they do not understand the complexity of what we do in our industry. Close enough is never good enough. It can actually be a disaster." - Rakesh Jaggi, SLB "We talk about AI as a co-pilot, not as a pilot, because particularly in the energy sector, oil and gas and power utilities, where you're moving molecules and electrons around, if you get it wrong, people get killed, and that's not okay." - Darryl Willis, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Energy "It took two weeks to plan a wellhead in onshore Argentina. They're doing it in a day now." - Darryl Willis, Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Energy "There was someone straight out of college, she was two weeks out of college, running a chemical facility that was massive. And normally you'd see somebody with 20, 30 years of experience sitting in that seat." - Jim Masso, Honeywell

Proud that several of my provisions were included in the Big Beautiful Bill:   -Tax permanency -Mandatory timber sales on FS & BLM land -Mandatory oil & gas lease sales -Ended unfair fees on short-barreled firearms -Funding for rural telehealth services

The truth.

Lost submarine update: I am still hearing reports that the US Government unnecessarily delayed the deployment of proper search & recovery equipment from reaching the Titanic, and now time is running out. I also hear that, contrary to USCG reports, the sub’s location is actually not a mystery and a small search area is being refined. I would like to know: Have all impediments to deploying the best search teams and equipment been removed? What is the status of the search & recovery mission now? How soon can we safely bring these people home?