On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the debt ceiling battle, mineral dependency, EV mandates and more. This week they are joined by former professional hockey player and current Representative Pete Stauber (R-MN) to talk about the importance of domestic mineral production and a new paper from the Institute for Energy Research.

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• Follow Rep. Stauber on Twitter
• Get a free digital copy of The Economic and Strategic Importance of Domestic...

President Biden’s new rules for power plants that will be released soon would benefit carbon capture and sequestration technology by enabling coal and natural gas plants to meet the new proposed standards developed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). However, the EPA is lagging far behind on permits allowing for the construction of the new technology. The new regulation  is one of a series of regulations toward implementing Biden’s goal of cutting carbon emissions in half by...

The American Energy Alliance urges all members to support H.R. 2811 the Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023. This legislation begins the process of repealing many of the expensive and distortionary energy subsidies jammed into the misleadingly named Inflation Reduction Act. While more is needed, this is an important start.

The estimated cost of the vast subsidies in the IRA to taxpayers has already ballooned, tripling or even quadrupling depending on which estimate one uses, in less than a...

President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is expected to announce limits on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. If implemented, the proposed regulation would be the first time the federal government has restricted carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, as well as future plants. According to the regulation, almost all coal and gas-fired power plants would have to cut or capture nearly all of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2040 . The regulation is now...

California is introducing the first-ever graduated tax on electricity bills. Traditionally, utility bills are based on the user’s consumption. If you use twice as much electricity as your neighbor, you pay twice as much. But last year, California’s legislature passed a law that adds a de facto income tax to the state’s electric bills. Based on that law, three major utility companies in California  are restructuring their customer billing with customers being charged based on how much...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the ongoing legal drama surrounding the 2024 front runners, how the presidential field is showing up, California's energy crisis, and more.

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• WATCH: Kenny Stein Testifies Before the House Ways and Means Committee on “Green” Subsidies in Biden’s Inflation “Reduction” Act
• The Race for the White House RFK Jr is in
• Pompeo is out
• Christie is considering
• Trump calling out DeSantis
• Nuclear Finland
• Germany
• ...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss Biden rolling out eggs, his 2024 presidential campaign, and heavy-handed auto regulations among other stories.

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• Secretary Jenny – “So Much Cheaper”
• Car Rule WSJ Editorial
• IER: Biden Releases New Rules to Force Electric Vehicles on Americans
• Washington Commanders Sold
• Louisiana Party Switching Fox News Monday, April 10
• An Insiders View of Energy Policy With Mike McKenna

Not only is President Biden changing regulations to force Americans to buy electric vehicles by establishing new, rigorous standards for tailpipe emissions for model years 2027 through 2032 that gasoline-powered vehicles cannot meet, he is also forcing an 80,000 mile, eight-year warranty for electric vehicles on automakers. The auto standards, expected to be the toughest  in U.S. history, are designed to cap emissions allowed per mile, encouraging the sale of electric vehicles that do not...

The New York Times notes that EPA is releasing rules that are intended to ensure that electric cars represent between 54 and 60 percent of all new cars sold in the United States by 2030 and 64 to 67 percent by 2032—in 9 years. That would exceed President Biden’s earlier goal announced in 2021  to have all-electric cars account for half of new car sales by 2030. The purpose of the new EPA regulations is to essentially regulate cars with combustible engines out of business by making...

WASHINGTON DC (04/12/2023) – Earlier today, the Environmental Protection Agency released a set of proposed rules that would effectively regulate cars with internal combustible engines out of business. The rule is an attempt to accelerate the number of electric vehicle sales to 67 percent by 2032.

Today, less than six percent of cars are electric, despite years of generous tax credits and other favorable treatment at all levels of government. The federal government is also providing...