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On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna respond to breaking news and discuss the efforts of everyone’s favorite globe-trotting “diplomat.” Links: Biden Framework for Social-Climate Package Fails to Ease Passage of Infrastructure Bill The New Jersey Governor’s Race Gets Closer under the Radar Biden on vaccine mandates Biden on “freedom” […]
One of the ways Democrats intend to pay for their reconciliation infrastructure bill is through the Methane Emissions Reduction Act of 2021, a proposed tax on methane emissions from natural gas and petroleum production. The tax would start at $1,800 per ton of emissions in 2023 with the potential direct cost of the tax to […]
The American Energy Alliance urges all members to vote NO on H.R. 3684, the infrastructure bill as amended by the Senate. This legislation is poor policy and a bad use of taxpayer resources. The subsidies for electric vehicles and charging are not the responsibility of the federal government. The tens of billions of dollars for unneeded […]
On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss Europe’s looming energy crisis. Links: Oil prices rise above $80 a barrel for first time in three years China to spend over $120 billion on services, drill 118,000 wells through 2025 Jen Psaki: It’s “unfair and absurd” that companies would increase costs […]
This past week House Democrats passed their budget reconciliation bills in the various Committees. So far these bills are 100 percent partisan as no Republicans in any Committee has voted for them. Next, the House Budget Committee will take the various provisions and combine them into a reconciliation bill to send to the Senate. This […]
Senate Democrats are proposing to institute a new tax on the use of our leading energy resources—oil, natural gas, and coal—according a leaked list of reconciliation bill pay-for options. Before getting into the specifics of what the leaked list calls “carbon pricing,” let’s reiterate how central these fuels are to our productivity and well-being. In […]
On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the recent votes to advance Biden’s “infrastructure” package out of the Senate. Links: Say No To The Bloated “Infrastructure” Deal Biden’s “Infrastructure” Bill Advances Green New Deal Provisions American Energy Alliance · #47: Tom and Mike unpack infrastructure votes
The American Energy Alliance urges all Senators to oppose cloture on the substitute amendment to H.R. 3684. The substance of the amendment is poor policy and a bad use of taxpayer resources. The subsidies for electric vehicles and charging are not the responsibility of the federal government. The tens of billions of dollars for unneeded and […]
Climate change central planning is found throughout the 2,700-plus page infrastructure bill that President Biden is touting as bipartisan. The Senate bill uses central planning to re-engineer the electric grid and to eliminate carbon from the U.S. economy by offering large subsidies. There is $21.5 billion to create the Energy Department’s new Office of Clean […]
After many months of discussion, we now have the text of a bipartisan infrastructure bill which some senators hope to rush through the Senate in just a week. The Democratic Party’s go-it-alone additional spending bill (beyond the regular budget), which they want to pass through reconciliation, is still undrafted, but Speaker Pelosi continues to promise […]