One of the President’s most important jobs is to “take Care that the Laws are faithfully executed” as it says in Article II Section 3 of the Constitution. Put another way, an important purpose of the Executive Branch is to execute the laws. The Department of Energy, however, does not want to do that with research and development on oil, natural gas, and coal. In fact, they have gone so far as to say that it is “a central ethic of our [Fossil Energy] office is that if a non-fossil...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast, Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss this week's headlines and the arrival of an unexpected ally in the fight against Biden's Build Back Beter.

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• Props to Bob Costas
• Hispanic Voters Now Evenly Split Between Parties, WSJ Poll Finds
• Biden Nominee Withdraws Name to Lead OCC Banking Watchdog
• Elon Musk's greatest hits
• Marco Rubio’s stand against Chinese slavery

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss this week's wildest headlines.

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• Greedy Capitalist Marshmallows!
• Centrist Dems sink Biden’s nominee for top bank regulator
• Leonardo DiCaprio Unloads Longtime Malibu Bungalow for $10.3 Million

On November 19, the House of Representatives passed a $2 trillion budget bill  with a long list of increases in federal royalties and fees, plus new fees, new taxes, and barriers to leasing in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the Pacific, Atlantic, and eastern Gulf of Mexico. It passed on a party-line vote of 220-213 and was sent to the Senate, where changes are expected. It contains a long list of higher costs for oil and gas companies, especially those operating on federal lands. The...

President Biden seeks further restrictions of oil and gas development on federal lands, substantially higher royalty fees.

WASHINGTON DC (November 23, 2021) – The American Energy Alliance (AEA), the country’s premier pro-consumer, pro-taxpayer, and free-market energy organization, strongly condemns President Biden's Black Friday release of a report on the federal oil and gas leasing program calling for further restrictions on federal lands for oil and gas development.

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On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the Biden administration's decision to release resources from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

President Biden’s Thanksgiving Day ploy to address rising gasoline prices ignores his ten months of anti-energy policy.

WASHINGTON DC (November 23, 2021) – The American Energy Alliance (AEA), the country’s premier pro-consumer, pro-taxpayer, and free-market energy organization, dismissed President Joe Biden’s announced release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) as a cynical and feckless exercise timed for Thanksgiving and aimed at stemming his plummeting...

Hard-working Americans should not have to pay more for gasoline
when we’re the world’s largest oil producer.

WASHINGTON DC (November 22, 2021) – The American Energy Alliance, the country’s premier pro-consumer, pro-taxpayer, and free-market energy organization, is calling on the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate intentional and strategic steps made by the Biden administration to artificially and unnecessarily raise the price of energy on...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss Biden's attempt to nominate an outright Marxist to regulate America's banking sector and the administration's tone-deaf response to rising gas prices.

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• Biden Is Looking at Possible SPR Release: Granholm
• Biden on McAuliffe’s defeat
• WATCH: ABC's George Stephanopoulos outlines a "brutal new poll" for Joe Biden.
• Californians weigh in on the skyrocketing gas prices under Joe Biden: "I can't do this anymore."
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The American Energy Alliance reminds all members of our previously issued key vote alert opposing H.R. 5376, the reconciliation spending package.

The reconciliation package is packed with subsidies for special interests and distortions to energy markets. Energy sources we are assured are already cheap are generously subsidized. Reliable energy sources, like those that heat American homes, are taxed. Domestic sources of energy are restricted or banned. The combined effect of the energy...