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New car prices are up 25 percent under Biden’s Presidency and they will likely increase further as Biden’s proposed auto efficiency standards will increase automakers’ production costs. In 2018, there were a dozen new car models that sold for less than $20,000, but in 2023, there was only one: the Mitsubishi Mirage, which accounted for about […]
Biden’s Department of Energy (DOE) has projected that President Biden’s infrastructure bill and his Inflation Reduction Act will save Americans up to $38 billion on electricity costs over the remainder of the decade, using a version of the Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) National Energy Modeling System (NEMS). Despite EIA being part of the DOE, EIA was not […]
Hawaii, like California, has pushed electric utilities to invest in renewable energy, rather than maintaining their current transmission lines and ensuring that brush would not affect their operations. Now that Maui has had a fire that has killed over 100 people and cost tens of billions of dollars in property losses, blue state politicians and […]
Europe’s plan to slash carbon emissions and reach net zero carbon by 2050 is seeing a backlash as the spiraling cost — both political and economic — needed for the transition is becoming clearer to Europeans. Wind and solar projects are now getting more scrutiny with Siemens indicating huge costs to fix operational problems. A new […]
On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss bumbles from Biden and co. this week, the Maui wildfire, and the latest ups and downs from the 2024 presidential contest. Links: US Mortgage Rate Climbs to 7.16%, Matching Highest Since 2001 Bloomberg Manchin… LA Times: Despite climate goals, California will let […]
WASHINGTON DC (08/17/2023) – The American Energy Alliance (AEA), the country’s premier pro-consumer, pro-taxpayer, and free-market energy organization, has joined a coalition of free-market organizations working to save taxpayers from runaway Washington spending on green corporate welfare found in the so-called “Inflation Reduction Act.” AEA President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement: The Biden Administration’s […]
On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the latest “rebrand” for the green movement, Biden’s most recent moves against domestic energy and mineral production, and some fun headlines from a busy week in Washington. Links: Renewable Energy Still King of Pork No New Drilling: The Courts Overruled Me Biden: […]
The Biden administration is proposing to tighten energy efficiency standards for new residential water heaters–the second-largest energy-using appliances in most households. Heating and cooling are the largest residential use of energy with water heating accounting for about 13 percent of both annual residential energy use and consumer utility costs. If finalized, the proposal would take […]
WASHINGTON DC (08/07/2023) – Last week, the Biden administration’s Department of Energy (DOE) released its latest Critical Minerals Assessment, which included uranium as a near-critical supply risk for the United States both in the short term and the medium term. And yet, this week The Washington Post is reporting that President Biden is planning a […]
First Solar, an Arizona-based solar-panel manufacturer, expects to receive as much as $710 million this year—nearly 90 percent of its expected operating profit—from federal subsidies meant to encourage domestic renewable energy production. Those incentives could be worth more than $10 billion for the company over the next decade. The incentives were approved by a Democratic Congress and President Biden last year […]