The Unregulated Podcast #194: Future Vegetables

On this week of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss a busy week of headlines and are joined by Isaac Orr, of Always On Energy Research, for a discussion on Tim Walz terrible history on energy policy as Governor of Minnesota. Links: American Energy Alliance · #194: Future Vegetables (8/9/24) Stay Connected […]

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Candidate Profile: Tim Walz on Energy

On August 6, 2024, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her vice presidential running mate. As a Congressman representing Minnesota’s First District, and more recently as Governor of the State of Minnesota, Walz has consistently pursued policies that threaten the ability of people to access affordable and reliable energy. Early […]

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Tim Walz Worse On Energy Than California’s Gavin Newsom

Tim Walz, V.P. Kamala Harris’s choice as her vice presidential running mate and Governor of Minnesota, has one of the most extreme state-level records on “clean energy” in the United States, rivaling Governor Newsom in California. In 2023, Walz signed into law a target for Minnesota to get 100 percent of its power from zero-carbon sources by 2040, having […]

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Biden Decrees New Rule To Make Electricity More Expensive and Less Reliable

Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has finalized its power plant rule and, in most cases, has made it more restrictive than what it proposed last year, incorporating comments from environmentalists rather than addressing concerns about the impacts on consumers and the utilities who serve them. EPA’s power plant rule targets electricity from coal and natural gas, which together […]

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The Unregulated Podcast #181: That Was 34 Years Ago!

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna talk the 2024 race for the White House, Team Biden’s stunning endorsement of child mining, and are joined by Isaac Orr, the Vice-President of Policy Research at Always On Energy Research, for a discussion on Biden’s regulatory assault on America’s electric grid. Links: […]

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Rising Electricity Prices Creating Electoral Headache For Biden

President Biden’s administration worries about gas prices reaching or exceeding $4 a gallon—a price where the electorate looks for an alternative to the incumbency in a Presidential election. Last time, gas prices were that high was before the 2022 mid-term elections when President Biden released billions of barrels of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, […]

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Biden’s Offshore Wind Projects To Cost Double Initial Estimates

The cost to consumers of two offshore wind projects expected to support New York’s self-imposed climate goals has more than doubled from their original estimates, which were high to begin with. Developers had threatened to cancel their offshore wind projects without higher prices, citing inflation, supply chain challenges and rising costs driven by the pandemic, Bidenomics […]

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Bloomberg Spending Millions To Destroy America’s Power Grid

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 […]

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Texas Shows Inherent Dangers Of Renewable Mandates

The Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) asked consumers to conserve electricity again on August 27 as the state was impacted by a persistent heat wave as well as low wind power and solar generation. Texas is the number one producer of wind energy in the country and the second largest producer of solar energy—both politically […]

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