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Today, The New York Times profiled the challenges facing the wind energy companies given their dependence on government handouts.  With renewal of the Wind Production Tax Credit in jeopardy, many wind energy businesses may not survive in the free market.  The American Energy Alliance’s Director of Communications, Benjamin Cole, spoke to the New York Times and explained IER’s opposition to continuing subsidies for the wind industry.   “Tax Credit in Doubt, Wind Power Industry Is...
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  The incredible people we’ve met out on the American Products American Power bus tour know that you’re not a hero for calling the doctor after deliberately breaking someone’s legs. But that’s what the Obama Administration effectively did by driving a refinery out of business with regulations and then calling in a rescue operation. As we noted recently , the Sunoco refinery in Philadelphia, PA was facing certain closure due to the cost of regulations. Hundreds of jobs were on the...
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  Representative Doc Hastings, chairman of the Committee on Natural Resources, published an op-ed in Politico today highlighting the Obama administration’s campaign against coal and affordable energy. While the administration certainly preaches an “all of the above” energy policy, their actions penalize and demonize coal and other affordable and reliable sources of energy. While the President is not living up to his “all of the above” promises, he is certainly doing his best to...
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Thomas Pyle, President of the American Energy Alliance, appeared on Money with Melissa Francis on FOX Business yesterday to discuss the wind Production Tax Credit (PTC) and the recent ouster of Exelon from the American Wind Energy Association. "I think they’re right in making the case that it’s time for this production tax credit to end. What has become, really, is just a boondoggle for the wind industry. We’re talking about an industry that has been getting this credit now for ...
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  The American Products American Power bus tour was right at home this past weekend at the Richmond International Raceway for NASCAR.  Thousands of fans flocked to the bus to sign the petition and to join the thousands of other Americans from all across the country fighting for sensible energy policies. As the current administration seeks to suffocate and shut down energy sources like oil, natural gas, and coal with an onslaught of regulations , the fans at NASCAR stepped up to join the...
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  CLICK HERE  to tell the EPA to waive the ethanol mandates and  relieve pressure on our nation’s food supply, fuel prices, and vehicle fleet. No doubt feeling the heat from record corn prices, defenders of the ethanol mandate are now claiming that ethanol is actually something that the market would embrace, without government intervention. If this were true, it would simply prove that the mandate is unnecessary. But of course it’s not true. In particular, claims that ethanol is...
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  Below is an editorial from the Oklahoman about the American Products, American Power bus tour, a project of the Institute for Energy Research and the American Energy Alliance. Get out of the way. That, in a nutshell, is the message preached by the American Energy Alliance, a right-leaning nonprofit that stumps for free-market energy policy. The AEA, whose multistate bus tour stopped in Oklahoma City last week, has its megaphone aimed squarely at the Obama administration, which has...
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  WASHINGTON D.C. — IER Director of Regulatory Affairs Daniel Simmons issued the following statement about today's announcement by the Obama administration of a new corporate average fuel economy mandate (CAFE): "This is an undemocratic, dangerous, and costly decision. The Obama administration's heavy-handed regulation overrides American's automobile preferences and imposes the choices of unelected bureaucrats on consumers. Forcing ever-higher fuel economy mandates will lead to less...
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  WASHINGTON D.C. — Since the Aug. 7 kickoff in Dallas, TX, the American Energy Alliance's "American Products and Power" bus tour has traveled 5,168 miles to promote affordable and reliable domestic energy sources, free energy markets, and less burdensome regulations on American job creators. Today and tomorrow, the tour stops in Cushing, Okla., which is commonly regarded as North America's most significant trading hub for crude oil, and Oklahoma City, where the tour will be joined at the...
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  The American Products and Power bus tour made an exciting stop at the Tesoro refinery in Mandan, ND last week. The bus tour team was greeted by managers on site where we learned about a recent expansion at the refinery, bringing economic growth and jobs to the area.

Ron Day, Environmental Health and Safety Manager, signs the bus

The Tesoro refinery began operations in 1954 following the discovery of oil in Tioga, ND in 1951. With the advancement of hydraulic fracturing technology in...
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