A recent study by the Anderson Economic Group found the cost to fuel certain electric vehicles to be higher than similar gasoline-powered cars  for the first time in 18 months. In the fourth quarter of 2022, drivers fueling a typical mid-priced Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) car paid $11.29 to fuel their vehicle for 100 miles of driving. That cost was $0.31 cheaper than the amount paid by drivers in mid-priced electric vehicles charging mostly at home, and over $3 less than the cost borne...

Joe Biden’s administration and certain elements in Congress have a plan for American energy: make it harder to produce and more expensive to purchase. Our friends at the Institute for Energy Research have shown the juxtaposition between the administration's words and deeds on this topic in their latest video short.

Since Biden took office, his administration and allies in Congress have taken over 125 actions deliberately designed to...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the latest headlines from the first week of February.

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• Gas Stoves Back Under Scrutiny With New US Limits Proposed
• Manchin says he is introducing legislation today with Ted Cruz to ensure gas stoves are not banned
• DeSantis gas stove policy
• RNC Election
• DC Crime/Metro/Fare Jumping

The American Energy Alliance urges all members to support H.R. 21, The Strategic Production Response Act, which would require plans to increase leasing on federal lands in order to draw down the Strategic Petroleum Reserve during non-emergencies.

The SPR was meant to serve as an emergency reserve of oil in the event of major events like the Arab oil embargo or natural disasters. It was never meant for attempts to micromanage gas prices, and presidents of both parties have misused the SPR...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the deliberations at Davos, the impending debt limit crisis, and more.

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• Kamala Climate: Momentum
• Debt Limit Summary: CNBC
• Fink
• Oakland A’s?

Electric car manufacturers in Europe are slowing down production because battery cars have proven too expensive for the middle class and the supply of lithium for their batteries is too uncertain. Production in Europe this year is expected to be 12 million cars—a million less than previous estimates. Tesla, for example, is cutting prices to boost demand. Of more than 900 auto executives surveyed internationally, 76 percent  believe that inflation and high-interest rates will slow sales and...

During the holidays, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of the Army issued a proposed redefinition of the Waters of the United States (WOTUS) under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act (CWA).  The rule would expand the EPA and Army’s regulatory oversight to include traditionally navigable waters, territorial seas, interstate waters and, “upstream water resources that significantly affect those waters.”  According to the two agencies, the revised rule...

A Commissioner of President Biden’s Consumer Product Safety Commission (CSPC) wants a ban on indoor gas stoves. Richard Trumka Jr., a Biden commissioner on the CSPC, told Bloomberg the ban is justified because gas stoves increase respiratory problems such as asthma among children, which is a myth  promoted by environmentalists whose real agenda is not to reduce asthma but to ban natural gas. The American Gas Association notes that neither the CSPC nor EPA has cited gas stoves as a...

Biden’s Department of Energy will not be refilling the nation’s emergency reserves, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, any time soon as the agency has rejected bids received for the February fill since the bids are above $70 a barrel. Today’s price for Texas Intermediate oil is $75.87 a barrel . Biden depleted the emergency oil reserve of 260 million barrels to keep gasoline prices down going into the mid-term election last year. Biden promised to refill the reserve starting this...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss recent events in Congress, California's descent into chaos, this week's crop of word salad, and Biden's high-security garage.

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• Rep. Dan Bishop: “Today, we're putting the deep state on notice. We are coming for you.”
• McKenna Column
• Gavin Newsome Free State?
• Spending a lot of time talking about other states and other governors (DeSantis)
• Rivian. The Lifestyle Company WSJ
• GM Lagging. WSJ EV Sales...