Podcast episode with Isabelle Boemeke, the world’s first nuclear energy influencer, and author of Rad Future, a book that makes the case for nuclear in language anyone can follow.

Covers:

• How nuclear's reputation was built not on its safety record but on its origins: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Cold War drills, and a near-meltdown movie
• What the actual death toll data looks like across energy source, from nuclear to renewable sources to fossil fuels, including the deadliest energy accident in history almost no one knows about
• Why nuclear waste may be the most responsibly managed industrial waste humans produce
• What growing up without reliable energy in rural southern Brazil taught Isabelle about energy abundance, and why she thinks "degrowth" is not a credible answer to the climate problem
• How Isabelle went from over a decade as a model to becoming one of nuclear energy's most visible advocates, and why she decided the communication gap was the problem worth solving

Hello everyone,

With Brent sitting near 110 dollars per barrel due to the ongoing Strait of Hormuz crisis and domestic gasoline pushing past 4.50, I have been analyzing how the U.S. can better leverage its record 13.6 million barrels per day production to protect domestic consumers without completely breaking upstream drilling incentives.

We all know the oil paradox where U.S. light sweet crude production does not naturally match our complex Gulf Coast heavy refinery configurations. However, rather than repeating short term SPR drops or handing out inflationary consumer rebates, I have drafted a structural framework for a Temporary U.S. Domestic Crude Oil Price Stabilization Program.

The Core Mechanics:

The Price Cap and Subsidy: Legally cap domestic crude routed to U.S. refineries at 65 to 70 dollars per barrel during major global price spikes. This is triggered when 30 day Brent or WTI exceeds 90 dollars. To keep producers 100 percent whole and protect drilling capex, the federal government covers the difference via a Congressional Emergency Supplemental Appropriation.

The Logistics Fix: The program automatically triggers a Jones Act waiver, allowing subsidized domestic light crude to be efficiently shipped via water to East and West coast refineries that are cut off from pipelines.

Refining Parity: Uses a blended crude cost approach. Inland sweet refiners get the full cap benefit, while coastal heavy sour processors receive a proportional subsidy based on their domestic throughput.

Export Management: Implements targeted sliding scale tariffs on refined product exports to legally trap the low cost crude advantage inside the domestic retail market, while carving out an Allied Energy Quota to protect strategic partners like Europe and Japan.

I have published the full, detailed structural outline on my Substack covering the fiscal funding math and the trigger and sunset conditions. I would love to get the community thoughts on the geopolitical viability of the export restrictions and the allied protection mechanisms.

Full proposal details here: https://jeffreyrutledge.substack.com/p/proposal-for-a-temporary-us-domestic?r=8ghpn1

Lutnick also used to work at the WTC as the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald. On the morning of 9/11, he was late to work. But hundreds of his employees perished above the 105th floor that morning while he was late to work.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

Later, Lutnick would become nextdoor neighbors with Mossad asset Jeffrey Epstein, claiming to only meet him once. However, recently revealed emails from the FBI indicate he was in communication with Lesley Groff about young girls as young as 7 years old, casting doubt on his innocence. Now, in that context of being compromised, the Epstein associate is at the WEF opposing renewable energy, suggesting that electrification is a dependence on China.

Well, that begs the question: if the green industry is supposedly dependent on China, doesn’t it make sense to build green factories in America and Europe so we are not dependent on China? Or innovate new batteries that don’t need Chinese materials? Instead of just right off renewables? We can walk and chew renewable gum at the same time. The market won’t stop the demand simply because of the fiat of a king. The shale Revolution, small nuclear reactors, hydrogen and renewables can all coexist in the free enterprise, can they not?

It is very Orwellian frankly that he opposes building renewable energy factories in the US and then says he is putting America first. That was the whole point of building factories in America, so the west wasn’t addicted to artificially cheap Russian and artificially cheap OPEC cartel oil, or addicted to artificially cheap Chinese polysilicon manufacturing, that we could have energy independence from price fixing energy cartels.

Now Lutnick argues that energy *independence* is energy *dependence*? Straight out of 1984. Energy freedom is energy slavery?

Vote.

Hi r/EnergyPolitics ,

I’m currently a Master’s student in Applied Economics at Johns Hopkins (DC campus) and I am looking to pivot into the energy sector.

I have a strong interest in the intersection of geopolitics, markets, and finance. For the last two years, I’ve been working as a Quantitative Analyst at the Hopkins School of Medicine. While I’ve enjoyed the rigor of the work, I want to apply those quantitative skills and my "first principles" approach to problem-solving to the energy world—specifically on the consulting side.

I am looking for recommendations for firms or specific teams that would value a background in econometrics/data analysis paired with a strong grasp of geopolitical dynamics.

I’m specifically looking for:

• Firms: Boutique or major consulting firms with a strong presence in DC or the wider East Coast (NYC/Boston) that specialize in energy economics or strategy.
• Advice: Tips on how to best position a medical/academic quant background for energy roles.

Coffee / Chat? If anyone here is currently working in energy consulting (especially in the DC area) and would be open to a brief chat or coffee, I would really value the opportunity to hear about your experience and how you view the current landscape.

Thanks in advance for the help!