Democrats Break Biden's Promise And Work To Raise Energy Prices
- 03/31/22
- IER
- Blog
As American motorists reel from gasoline prices averaging more than $4.20 nationally, it’s important to shine a critical light on so-called climate policies that would drive prices up even higher. Consider for example the provocatively-named “Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act,” originally introduced last August by Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) along with Bernie Sanders and a coalition of other Senate Democrats. The Act would apportion a $500 billion “assessment” over ten years...
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Democrats Inflate Gas Prices With More "Free" Money
- 03/29/22
- IER
- Blog
One of the proposals from California Governor Gavin Newsom to deal with high gasoline prices is to provide rebates to residents who own cars at $400 per registered vehicle, capped at two per person. The proposal would give $400 debit cards to those who own vehicles, as well as millions of dollars to transportation agencies to offer free rides for three months. Gasoline prices in California are the nation’s highest, $5.917 a gallon recently and up more than $2 from a year ago. Part of the...
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Which is it, Congress?
- 03/25/22
- AEA
- Blog
Many leading voices in Congress ran for office promising to end domestic production of natural gas, oil, & coal.
The DNC's biggest stars get their sound bites attacking American energy producers. Now that the predictable consequences of their extremist agenda are coming to fruition Pelosi and her cronies are changing their tune.
You can't have it both ways, Congress.
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EIA: Petroleum and Natural Gas Will be the Most-Used Fuels in the United States Through 2050
- 03/24/22
- Alexander Stevens
- Blog
EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2022 reference case (which assumes current laws and regulations) projects that U.S. energy consumption will grow through 2050. According to the reference case, petroleum will retain the largest share of energy consumption throughout that period, followed by natural gas. Renewable energy is projected as the fastest-growing energy source through 2050.
EIA projects that transportation and industrial processes will continue to be the primary sources of petroleum...
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Skyrocketing Nickel Prices Threaten Biden's EV Agenda
- 03/23/22
- IER
- Blog
Nickel prices have skyrocketed with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine due to fears that Russian supplies may be cut off. The disruption is causing supply problems for carmakers and others that need the metal. Nickel prices surged in the middle of March after which trading was temporarily suspended for several days and new restrictions were applied that did not initially work. A plunge in price at the open of trading several times triggered the exchange’s daily limit, below which no further...
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Which Is It, Joe?
- 03/22/22
- AEA
- Blog
Joe Biden ran for president promising to end domestic production of natural gas, oil, & coal. Joe Biden hired a team of bureaucrats who zealously attacked American energy producers from day one. Now that the predictable consequences of his extremist agenda are coming to fruition Biden and his cronies are changing their tune. You can't have it both ways, Joe.
Send a message to the White House demanding Biden abandon his anti-energy...
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American Gas Could Save The World, If Biden Would Get Out Of The Way
- 03/18/22
- IER
- Blog
Toby Rice, who runs the U.S. largest natural gas producing company, Pittsburgh-based EQT, indicated that the United States could easily replace Russian natural gas supply in Europe. He estimated the United States has the potential to quadruple its gas output by 2030. What is needed to accomplish that is more natural gas pipelines and LNG export facilities because U.S. LNG terminals are shipping close to all the gas they can and there are not enough pipelines to get the needed gas to export...
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Rep. Ro Khanna Flip Flops After Seeing Poll Numbers
- 03/18/22
- Thomas Pyle
- Blog
Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, has been putting pressure on domestic oil companies to lower production for months. In October he was interrogating oil CEO’s about why they were increasing production as their ‘European Counterparts’ were lowering their own—seemingly a moral good in Rep. Khanna’s eyes.
Now that gas prices in his state are above the $6 mark, he is singing a different tune. We now hear him bemoaning the rising price ad nauseam. He’s responding to the...
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Biden Doubles Down On Anti-Energy Onslaught
- 03/17/22
- IER
- Blog
Biden’s campaign promise: “No more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. No more drilling including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill period. It ends.”
That President Biden is now asking the U.S. oil industry to produce more is ironic after taking steps to do just the opposite. Further, he has little understanding of the workings of the industry when he stated : “U.S. producers “have 9,000 permits to drill now — they can be drilling right now,...
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A Windfall of Bad Ideas
- 03/11/22
- Thomas Pyle
- Blog
With sky-high inflation reminding people of the economic malaise of the Carter years, it appears that some Members of Congress are actually looking back fondly on those times and are actively trying to relive those days. The latest bad idea that Congress is trying to revive is a new tax on oil profits modeled after the tax on oil profits President Carter signed in 1980. This was a bad idea in 1980 and it’s a bad idea today.
This new tax on oil appears to be predicated on two core...
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