New Survey, Same Results: Voters Prefer Affordable Energy over Climate Agenda
- 06/01/23
- AEA
- Blog
The American Energy Alliance and the Committee to Unleash Prosperity recently completed a nationwide survey of 1000 likely voters (3.1% margin of error) executed in the first two weeks of May. A full slide deck of the results can be found here.
As Mike McKenna of MWR Strategies notes, there are a few salient points worth noting.
First, and probably most pointedly, Republicans continue to be on solid ground with respect to who should make decisions about (and who should pay for)...
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New Survey, Same Results: Voters Prefer Affordable Energy over Climate Agenda
- 06/01/23
- AEA Press Office
- Press Releases
Voters reject policies, like carbon taxes, that make energy more expensive and believe consumers, not government, should decide what types of cars people can buy.
WASHINGTON DC (06/01/2023) – The American Energy Alliance and the Committee to Unleash Prosperity recently sponsored a nationwide survey of 1000 likely voters (3.1 percent margin of error) conducted by MWR Strategies in the first two weeks of May. The survey can be found here (slide deck) and here (written...
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Key Vote YES on H.J. Res. 27
- 05/28/23
- AEA
- Scorecard
The American Energy Alliance urges all Senators to support H.J. Res. 27, the Congressional Review Act resolution disapproving of the revised definition of "waters of the United States" under the Clean Water Act.
The Clean Water Act clearly spells out an extensive state role for regulation of water sources. The federal statutory regulatory role is overseeing navigable waters of the United States. The repeated attempts by federal bureaucrats to stretch this definition to cover nearly all water...
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The Unregulated Podcast #133: Why Does Rice Play Texas?
- 05/26/23
- AEA
- Podcast
On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the growing 2024 presidential field, more bumbles from team Biden, the debt battle, and the unique happenings of Florida.
Links:
- Dr. Jay Battacharya. Hoover, Uncommon Knowledge.
- Debt Limit Montage
- DeSantis is in
- Tim Scott is in
- Fitton FOIA: Kerry’s Staff
- Politico: How Biden got to Yes on F-16s
- Zelinsky: Why is he giving the commencement...
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150 Ways President Biden and the Democrats Have Made it Harder to Produce Oil & Gas
- 05/23/23
- Thomas Pyle
- Blog
Joe Biden and congressional 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 150 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,
- Besides canceling the Keystone XL pipeline,
- President Biden...
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Biden's SPR Gambit Raises Prices For Americans
- 05/22/23
- IER
- Blog
The Biden administration is soliciting bids for up to 3 million barrels of sour oil—one tanker’s worth–to refill the emergency reserve stockpile depleted by President Biden’s pre-election releases. Deliveries into the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) are planned for August, with awards to be announced in June. The announcement marks the agency’s second attempt to begin replenishing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve after it released 260 million barrels since November of 2021...
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The Unregulated Podcast #132 The Honorable Mike McKenna
- 05/22/23
- AEA
- Podcast
On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the debt ceiling battle, recent staff changes, and a busy week of events in Washington.
Links:
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Biden's Bird Blenders Actually Increase Local Temperatures
- 05/18/23
- AEA
- Blog
Studies have found that wind turbines impact local meteorological conditions by raising temperatures at the surface level while the wind turbines are in operation. Due to lucrative federal subsidies, wind farms are being built at a rapid pace contributing to a growing concern of the cumulative impacts these wind projects will produce. Advocates of wind argue that the surface temperature impact of turbines is local and not global, as are emissions of greenhouse gases, and that wind turbines...
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Biden, Bypassing Congress, Attempts To Close Natural Gas Power Plants
- 05/17/23
- IER
- Blog
EPA’s proposed power plant rule hits coal plants particularly hard since they would need an extremely expensive technology that is not yet commercial to allow coal plants to generate electricity in the United States. But, the new proposed rule would also wreak havoc on natural gas plants. Biden’s 681-page Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed rule would require natural gas plants to blend hydrogen into fuel to survive. Natural gas plants would have to co-fire with 30 percent...
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EV Batteries An Environmental Time Bomb
- 05/16/23
- IER
- Blog
The green transition is pushing electric vehicles upon the American public as it is believed that they are less greenhouse gas intensive than gasoline vehicles. Electric vehicles, however, require lithium-ion batteries that have issues regarding greenhouse gas emissions during the mining and processing of the raw materials needed and the disposal of the batteries at the end of their life cycle. As more and more electric vehicles are sold, the problems inherent to mining and disposal...
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