On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna review the latest events shaping the 2024 presidential field, economic woes, and the future of American auto manufacturing. This week Ryan Walters, the Superintendent of Public Instruction of Oklahoma, joins the show for a discussion on the state of American education.

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• Suarez is Out
• Delinquencies Rise for Car Loans
• Lyin’ Biden
• Blinken Ukraine
• Reuters: $12 Billion for the autos
• Utility Dive
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WASHINGTON DC (09/07/2023) – Despite rising gasoline prices, the Department of Interior canceled the seven remaining oil and gas leases in Alaska’s Arctic Wildlife Refuge (ANWR), estimated to hold over 10 billion barrels of oil. The leases were awarded to the Alaska Industrial Development and Export Authority, the state-owned economic development agency, in 2021 under President Trump. Additionally, the Administration will no longer allow new lease sales in Alaska’s National Petroleum...

The first-ever offshore wind lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico attracted only one bid, yet the Biden administration called it a victory. The auction of offshore wind development rights in the Gulf of Mexico ended with a single $5.6 million winning bid, reflecting meager demand despite the productivity of oil and gas production in the region. Germany’s RWE won rights to 102,480 acres  off Louisiana, while the other two lease areas on offer off Texas received no bids, according to U.S....

The Biden White House is worried about gas prices now that a number of states have prices over $4 a gallon. Because high gas prices agitate voters, the White House is in discussion with Venezuela again to get Maduro to agree to run “free elections” in return for removing oil sanctions that would put more oil on the global market, thereby reducing oil and gasoline prices. His administration is also in talks with Iran, and that country has been ramping up exports . Biden could easily get...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the proceedings of the Trump trial saga, new hysterics from "Special" Envoy Kerry, EV graveyards, and the latest from the 2024 presidential race.

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• Daily Grill Closes Dupont/Downtown Location
• Kerry: The Cult
• China’s EV Graveyards
• Cars Sitting at U.S. Dealerships
• Rivian CEO
• Vanguard ESG
• Slim Shady is Mad at Vivek
• Update on the ULEZ (Ultra Low Emission Zone) Cameras

California, the seventh-largest U.S. oil producer, has put a near halt on issuing permits for new oil and gas drilling this year. The state’s Geologic Energy Management Division has approved seven new active drilling well permits in the first half of 2023 , which compares with over 200 it had issued by this time last year. The delay in approvals is due to California’s progressive environmental laws and standards against fossil fuels despite its role as a major oil producer and a major...

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 5,300 of the 7.7 million new vehicles sold  in the United States in the first half of the year and is scheduled to go out of production in two...

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 asked to perform the analysis using NEMS. That was likely due to the spurious assumptions used by the DOE, as explained...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the first Republican presidential primary debate, inflation, smart cars, and the latest coming from the Fed and Wall Street.

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• Brits don’t like those cameras
• Some Golfers are Smart
• WSJ: Car Prices Unsustainable for Buyers
• Masks are back CBS
• Digital Currency?
• Stranded Carbon Credits

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 liberal newspapers like the New York Times have blamed the wildfires on climate change. Hawaii’s Democratic Governor Josh Green repeatedly...