Press Releases

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Thomas Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, released the following statement in advance of a vote this week of the energy and power subcommittee of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which is scheduled to consider the "No More Solyndras" Act of 2012.  The act would prohibit the Department of Energy from issuing any Section 1705 loan guarantee applications submitted after December 31, 2011, and greatly reduce taxpayer risk for loans submitted prior to...
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For Immediate Release May 24, 2012 WASHINGTON D.C. -- In advance of President Obama's campaign-year stop in the State of Iowa to tout his administration's support for wind energy handouts, AEA President Thomas Pyle released a letter to all Members of the 112th Congress opposing the administration's call for more deficit spending on renewable energy. "Decades of clamoring for subsidies and cash handouts by wind power proponents have done nothing to mature the industry into a viable...
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- American Energy Alliance Senior Vice President Daniel Kish released the following statement on the resignation of EPA Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz, announced earlier today: "Like a shamed Roman soldier who dishonored Caesar in battle, EPA Administrator Al Armendariz fell on his own sword today, hoping that professional suicide would save the EPA and the Obama White House from more political fallout. But there is no indication that the regulatory crucifixions that...
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Americans see Direct Connection Between Domestic Energy Production and Lower Prices

WASHINGTON D.C. – As a part of an ongoing multi-million dollar initiative to educate the American public about energy issues, the American Energy Alliance (AEA) released today results of a national survey of likely voters that reveals overwhelming support for increased energy production and widespread acknowledgment that a healthy energy industry – which not only provides us with our basic energy needs,...

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WASHINGTON D.C. -- The American Energy Alliance launched today a 30-second advertisement  on Pandora Radio, a development of the Music Genome Project with more than 125 million registered users throughout the United States. The ad, entitled "Obama Promises," will air in nine states -- New Mexico, Colorado, Nevada, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Florida, Virginia and North Carolina. AEA purchased 45 million spots for both audio and visual advertisements on Pandora Radio in what constitutes one of...
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- The Obama campaign, the Democratic National Committee and a pro-Obama Super PAC are frantically deploying television propaganda to distract the American public from the president's energy record. In an ongoing multi-million dollar educational advertisement  sponsored by the...
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WASHINGTON D.C. -- The American Energy Alliance launched today a multi-million dollar nationwide initiative to educate the public about energy policies that are causing gas prices and other energy costs to skyrocket. The first phase of the initiative includes a 30-second television ad that begins airing this week in eight states across the country. "The failed policies of the Obama administration are laid bare by the rising cost of energy in America, despite the fact that we have 200 years...
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For Immediate Release March 13, 2012 WASHINGTON D.C. -- The United States Senate defeated on a bipartisan 49-49 vote an amendment to the transportation bill on Tuesday that would have reinstated the production tax credit (PTC), a scheme to provide billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded handouts to providers of unreliable and intermittent wind energy. Similarly, the Senate defeated the Menendez-Burr Amendment to create subsidies for natural gas vehicles. The American Energy Alliance was...
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For Immediate Release March 8, 2012 WASHINGTON D.C. -- The American Energy Alliance sent two coalition letters to all United States Senators today opposing amendments to the Senate transportation bill that would create new taxpayer-funded subsidies for natural gas vehicles, extend the production tax credit (PTC) to underwrite wind energy, and revive the 1603 Treasury grant program that gives taxpayer money for the installation of solar panels and other renewable technologies. "The scheme...
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"Instead of unleashing lawyers at the Justice Department, the president should unleash the Interior Department to open the outer continental shelf." -- AEA President Thomas J. Pyle

WASHINGTON D.C. -- Thomas J. Pyle, president of the American Energy Alliance, issued today the following statement in response to President Obama's Mar. 6 press conference: "President Obama continues to offer inadequate solutions and deceptive talking points instead of policies that will promote affordable energy...
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