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As recently as 2005, more than half of all automobiles on the road were painted a color other than black, white, silver, or gray. Today, less than 20% of vehicles listed in our database of 1.7 million cars are a color other than black, white, silver, or gray. "Simplifying the production process — with fewer trim options and fewer paint options — is always going to be a winner." Today, car colors are going the way of checked airline bags — you pay extra for something you used to get free. Offering fewer options to average car buyers — and more to the wealthy — enables automakers to bask in the color they care about most: green.

Persons: carmakers, Ivan Drury, Edmunds, Drury, Mark Healy, Andrew Thompson, Dan DeLorenzo, Kim Nguyen, Randy Yeip Organizations: GM, Chrysler, Flipturn Creative Studios

But when you delve deeper into our database of 1.7 million car listings, all sorts of geographic quirks emerge. Yet in and around the state capital of Jackson, where per capita income exceeds the national average, five of the 10 most popular cars are Mercedes-Benzes. In Rutherford County, Tennessee, where the nearby Nissan plant cranks out 2,500 vehicles a day, four of the 10 most popular cars are Nissans. Nine of the 10 most popular cars in Spartanburg, South Carolina, are foreign — yet not a single one of them is a BMW, whose nearby plant employs 100,000 people. And in Alameda County, California, whose Fremont plant turns out most of the country's Teslas, not a single one of the 10 favorite vehicles is a Tesla.

Persons: Marin, Fremont, Elon Musk Organizations: Montana ., Jeep, Toyota, Nissan, Ford, Cadillac, BMW, Elon, Toyota Prius, VW Locations: Vermont, Montana, Arizona, California, Los Angeles, Orange, Mississippi, Jackson, San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Monterey, Santa Clara, Alameda, Rutherford County , Tennessee, Dearborn , Michigan, Michigan, Wexford, Cadillac, Spartanburg , South Carolina, Alameda County , California

☆ The Regional Bank Selloff Visualized
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-06 | by ( Alana Pipe | Dan Delorenzo | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Some investors are still worried about the health of regional banks as another week of turbulence sent shares of many of the companies tumbling before a rally Friday. In a week that included another interest-rate hike by the Federal Reserve and a rescue of First Republic by JPMorgan Chase , the KBW Regional Banking Index, which tracks regional banks in the U.S., was down 28% this year, through Friday.

Cities across Europe are keeping the lights on and heating homes with natural gas fracked from wells in Texas and Louisiana, as U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas to the continent reach record levels. After its tanks rolled into Ukraine, Russia all but cut its flows of pipeline gas to Europe, by far its largest customer. The curtailment forced Europe to tap into supplies of American LNG like never before, its shores attracting tankers filled with the liquid gas by the hundreds. Between 2021 and 2022, exports of U.S. LNG to Europe more than doubled, according to commodities-data firm Kpler.

☆ Russia’s War on Ukraine Changed Global Oil Trade. Here Is What It Looks Like Now.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Dan Delorenzo | David Uberti | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Russia’s war on Ukraine has redrawn the global oil map, rerouting a fleet of skyscraper-size tankers on longer voyages as they shuttle crude shipments that are essential to the global economy. The Wall Street Journal analyzed data from the ship-tracking firm Spire Global that showed the paths of about 3,000 such vessels to find those leaving Russian ports across periods before and after the Russian invasion on Feb. 24. Using location-tracking signals shared by ships and authorities, the information shows how fallout from the invasion cut longtime trade ties and left the Kremlin rushing to find the money it needs to fund its war machine.

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