On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the debt ceiling battle, new carbon tax proposals, and the continued deterioration of America's electric grid and political fabric.

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• 9 Family Members Washington Examiner
• Carbon Taxers are at it Again
• Axios: Brace yourself for a new, scary dynamic in American politics: the trust-nothing era
• NYT: Backup Power: A Growing Need if you Can Afford It

The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) new emissions standards  for vehicles require manufacturers to increase overall fuel efficiency by over 25 percent by 2026, effectively mandating that electric vehicles make up two-thirds of new car sales. In order for customers to buy electric vehicles, manufacturers will have to make them less expensive than internal combustion vehicles, which will likely mean raising the price of internal combustion (ICE) vehicles until they are more costly...

Secretary of Energy Granholm believes the U.S. military can rely on electricity to fuel its tanks and other military fighting equipment in about a decade.  And, of course, that electricity must be supplied by politically correct resources—wind and solar power—that are weather-dependent.  Granholm testified before the Senate in support of a plan to fully establish an all-electric vehicle fleet in the U.S. military  by the 2030s. Granholm, a former Michigan Democratic governor, believes...

WASHINGTON DC (05/02/2023) – Today, Sen. Joe Manchin (D. W.Va.), once again, introduced legislation that will do little to actually solve our nation’s permitting issues, and, in many cases, it might actually make them worse. The measure seemingly seeks to reform the federal permitting process, but mainly is a vehicle to congressionally authorize the West Virginia Senator's pet project, the Mountain Valley Pipeline.

AEA President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement:

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the debt ceiling battle, mineral dependency, EV mandates and more. This week they are joined by former professional hockey player and current Representative Pete Stauber (R-MN) to talk about the importance of domestic mineral production and a new paper from the Institute for Energy Research.

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• Follow Rep. Stauber on Twitter
• Get a free digital copy of The Economic and Strategic Importance of Domestic...

President Biden’s new rules for power plants that will be released soon would benefit carbon capture and sequestration technology by enabling coal and natural gas plants to meet the new proposed standards developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). However, the EPA is lagging far behind on permits allowing for the construction of the new technology. The new regulation  is one of a series of regulations toward implementing Biden’s goal of cutting carbon emissions in half by...

The American Energy Alliance urges all members to support H.R. 2811 the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023. This legislation begins the process of repealing many of the expensive and distortionary energy subsidies jammed into the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act. While more is needed, this is an important start.

The estimated cost of the vast subsidies in the IRA to taxpayers has already ballooned, tripling or even quadrupling depending on which estimate one uses, in less than a...

President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. If implemented, the proposed regulation would be the first time the federal government has restricted carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, as well as future plants. According to the regulation, almost all coal and gas-fired power plants would have to cut or capture nearly all of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040 . The regulation is now...

California is introducing the first-ever graduated tax on electricity bills. Traditionally, utility bills are based on the user’s consumption. If you use twice as much electricity as your neighbor, you pay twice as much. But last year, California’s legislature passed a law that adds a de facto income tax to the state’s electric bills. Based on that law, three major utility companies in California  are restructuring their customer billing with customers being charged based on how much...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the ongoing legal drama surrounding the 2024 front runners, how the presidential field is showing up, California's energy crisis, and more.

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• WATCH: Kenny Stein Testifies Before the House Ways and Means Committee on “Green” Subsidies in Biden’s Inflation “Reduction” Act
• The Race for the White House RFK Jr is in
• Pompeo is out
• Christie is considering
• Trump calling out DeSantis
• Nuclear Finland
• Germany
• ...