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California's Plastic Bag Ban Backfires Bigly

  • 03/08/24
  • IER
  • Blog
In 2014, California state legislators passed a law banning single-use plastic bags to reduce the amount of discarded plastic and to limit emissions resulting from their production. Californians, however, are now tossing more pounds of plastic bags than before the legislation was passed. A report by the consumer advocacy group CALPIRG  found the tonnage of discarded bags rose from 4.08 per 1,000 people in 2014 to 5.89 per 1,000 people in 2021—a record high. The actual tonnage of...

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200 Ways President Biden and the Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas

Joe Biden and his Democrats have a plan for American energy: make it harder to produce and more expensive to purchase. Since Biden took office, his administration and Congressional Democrats have taken over 200 actions deliberately designed to make it harder to produce energy here in America.  A list of those actions appears below. A PDF of the list is available to download here.


On January 20, 2021, 

  1. Besides canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, 
  2. President...

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The Unregulated Podcast #172: Fuel for Disruption

  • 03/07/24
  • AEA
  • Podcast
On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the fallout of Super Tuesday and take bets on which will have a runner long time: this episode, or Biden's State of the Union address. Links:  
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EV Mandates Play To China's Plans For Global Domination

  • 03/05/24
  • IER
  • Blog
Western carmakers in the United States and Europe have been warning about the threat of Chinese rivals upending their markets. This threat exists because the politicians in these countries have forced automakers to go electric before they were financially and technically ready to do so. President Biden, who has elevated China’s dominant role in the renewable and EV energy markets through his push to reach unrealistic climate goals, called Chinese-made electric vehicles  a national...

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The Unregulated Podcast #171: Learn to Mine

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss shake-ups in the Senate, how the pending spending deal is shaping up, and what recent events in the 2024 presidential race mean for November. Later they are joined by Yaron Brook, Chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute, for a discussion on his recent work and the Biden administration's relationship with Israel. Links:
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China Building Factories In Mexico To Cash In On Biden's EV Mandates

  • 02/23/24
  • IER
  • Blog

BYD, China’s largest EV auto maker, which recently surpassed Tesla as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles, is reviewing potential locations for a plant  in Mexico that would allow it to bring its low-cost electric vehicles into the United States. Mexico offers close proximity to U.S. markets, relatively low labor costs and the opportunity to take advantage of low or zero tariffs on made-in-Mexico vehicles. Some of the locations BYD is considering are near the U.S. border. At...


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The Unregulated Podcast #170: Frustration. Anxiety. Discouragement.

  • 02/23/24
  • AEA
  • Podcast

Biden Slows, Not Reverses, Unpopular EV Mandates In Election Year Gimmick

  • 02/21/24
  • IER
  • Blog

In a concession to automakers and labor unions during an election year, the Biden administration plans to relax elements of its regulations to limit tailpipe emissions that are designed to get Americans to switch from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles.  Biden’s EPA is planning to give automakers more time to ramp up sales of electric vehicles. The revised regulations would not require a sharp increase in EV sales until after 2030 . The final rule is expected to be published by early...


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Qatar and Mexico Big Winners of Biden’s Attack on American LNG

  • 02/16/24
  • IER
  • Blog

The $2 billion conversion of Mexico’s Energia Costa Azul gas terminal into an LNG export facility will open a new, faster means for U.S. natural gas producers to access Asian gas markets, circumventing the Panama Canal. Costa Azul’s conversion is the first of several gas export projects proposed in Mexico, but President Joe Biden’s recent pause on LNG export approvals casts uncertainty over their timelines and development, as these ventures need Energy Department authorization to ship...


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The Unregulated Podcast #169: This Is Gratuitous

  • 02/16/24
  • AEA
  • Podcast

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna go over the recent shake-ups at FERC brought on, in part, by the FOIA requests made by the Institute for Energy Research, and other energy stories in the headlines. Later, Ryan Walters, the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Oklahoma, joins the show for a discussion on the state of American education.

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