Bloomberg Spending Millions To Destroy America's Power Grid
- 11/17/23
- IER
- Blog
President Biden’s push for renewable energy in the generating sector and the billions that Biden and philanthropists like Michael Bloomberg are spending to rid the U.S. of coal plants and to drastically reduce natural gas plants will destabilize the U.S. electric power grid, damaging transformers and causing long-term outages, experts say. Michael Bloomberg pledged $500 million in September toward shifting electricity production in the United States to wind and solar energy and shutting...
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The Unregulated Podcast #157: Direct Communications Stated Directly
- 11/17/23
- AEA
- Podcast
This week on The Unregulated Podcast Thomas Pyle and Mike McKenna are joined by Travis Fisher, the director of energy and environmental policy studies at the Cato Institute, for a wide ranging discussion energy issues in the news.
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American Families Not Buying Biden's All EV Agenda
- 11/14/23
- IER
- Blog
With slower than expected sales in electric vehicles, automakers are questioning their multibillion-dollar investments in new factories and raising doubts about the effectiveness of Biden’s federal incentives. General Motors delayed plans to expand its electric pickup truck production at a plant in suburban Detroit, and canceled a program with Honda to sell electric vehicles for around $30,000. Ford paused its $3.5 billion EV plant in Marshall, Michigan and $12 billion of its planned $15...
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The Unregulated Podcast #156 Tonal Quality
- 11/09/23
- AEA
- Podcast
On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna recap the latest happenings on Capitol Hill and are joined by The Honorable Jason Isaac, of the Texas Public Policy Institute, for a wide ranging discussion on all things energy.
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- Not a disaster
- Musk to Rogan
- Talib
- Democrat Rep. Jared Moskowitz
- Trudeau/Climate Policy
- Read the latest from Jason Isaac
- Learn more about the Texas Public Policy Foundation
- Learn more about the American Energy...
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Biden Slow Walking Critical LNG Infrastructure
- 11/07/23
- IER
- Blog
Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) has increased the time it takes to review a permit for exporting LNG from 7 weeks to a minimum of 11 months. The slowing of permit approval could mean that nearly-completed LNG projects are not able to supply European buyers in need of gas because they do not have the permit. The drastic slowing of LNG export permits represents the most significant limit thus far on an industry planning to add 50 percent more to U.S. export capacity by 2026. The average...
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The Unregulated Podcast #155: We Take it Very Seriously
- 11/06/23
- AEA
- Podcast
On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss carbon tax news in the states and north of the border, the latest lunacy from America's left wing, and give some insight into the evolving situation involving Iran.
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- Carbon Taxes Trudeau
- The Power Hour Podcast from Heritage Foundation
- Subsidized Housing and Food
- The Birds
- Iran/UN shot
- Iran/UN chaser
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10 Questions for Senator Cassidy and Senator Graham
- 11/02/23
- Thomas Pyle
- Blog
Today, Senators Cassidy and Graham introduced a carbon tax on imports from high-greenhouse gas emitting countries. We have some questions for the Senators:
- Why do you support a carbon tax? Or do you only support a carbon tax on China, but not on U.S. producers?
- When did following European-style energy policy help the United States?
- Europe’s manufacturing sector is contracting . Why do you want to follow Europe’s energy policy which has led to higher energy prices in Europe and...
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New House Speaker Goes to Work Slashing Biden’s Green Fat Budget
- 10/31/23
- AEA
- Blog
The first major legislation House Republicans passed under Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership would cut billions of dollars in green subsidies for energy efficiency upgrades included in President Biden’s climate law, the Inflation Reduction Act. The $58 billion measure, which funds the Energy Department and other agencies, rescinds more than $5.5 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act, including a $4.5 billion program for homeowners to switch to more energy efficient appliances and a...
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