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Drilling Deep: An advocate for tolls lays out his case

On the inaugural edition of Drilling Deep, podcast host John Kingston talks to Baruch Feigenbaum of Reason Foundation about how to fund infrastructure impovements. It isn’t always a popular view but he’s clear in his arguments. Also: a look at what OPEC faced this week at its meeting in Vienna.

John Kingston

John has an almost 40-year career covering commodities, most of the time at S&P Global Platts. He created the Dated Brent benchmark, now the world’s most important crude oil marker. He was Director of Oil, Director of News, the editor in chief of Platts Oilgram News and the “talking head” for Platts on numerous media outlets, including CNBC, Fox Business and Canada’s BNN. He covered metals before joining Platts and then spent a year running Platts’ metals business as well. He was awarded the International Association of Energy Economics Award for Excellence in Written Journalism in 2015. In 2010, he won two Corporate Achievement Awards from McGraw-Hill, an extremely rare accomplishment, one for steering coverage of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and the other for the launch of a public affairs television show, Platts Energy Week.