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...

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and fellow oil-producing allies (OPEC+) are back in the driver’s seat as U.S. shale oil is no longer the marginal fuel due to President Joe Biden’s anti-oil and gas policies. Brent oil jumped to $85 a barrel since members of OPEC+ including Russia announced production cuts  of 1.16 million barrels per day on April 2, adding to earlier cuts the bloc made. OPEC+ wants higher prices to pay for Saudi Arabia’s domestic projects and...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss former President Trump's legal woes, a new paper from the Institute for Energy Research, the GOP and DNC swapping seats across the country, and more.

Links:

• Read the full indictment against Trump
• IER Paper: Energy Security Is National Security
• Wisconsin: Janet Protasiewicz flips Wisconsin Supreme Court
• North Carolina: Charlotte Rep Tricia Cotham switches to the GOP, creating a veto-proof majority for...

The United States and Japan reached a trade agreement for critical minerals used in batteries–a deal aimed at allowing Japan to meet sourcing requirements for new electric-vehicle subsidies in the United States and beginning to shift energy supply chains away from China. Under the deal, the United States and Japan agreed not to levy export duties on critical minerals they trade and coordinate labor standards in producing minerals, among other steps. The Biden administration has started ...

Senator Joe Manchin, Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, is not happy about how his wording in the Inflation Reduction Act is being interpreted by President Biden’s Department of the Treasury.  Treasury’s proposal allows a much wider claim on the electric vehicle tax credit than he says he intended. The Treasury Department is offering U.S. automakers leniency  in being able to use more foreign-sourced minerals and battery parts without losing the tax break and...

New York will become the first state to pass a law banning natural-gas and other fossil-fuel hookups in new buildings on its way to meeting President Biden’s net zero carbon goals and the state’s own targets for greenhouse-gas reduction. The New York State Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act, passed in 2019, calls for a reduction in economy-wide greenhouse-gas emissions of 40 percent by 2030 and 85 percent by 2050 from 1990 levels.

The ban  is to be added to the state’s...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the highlights from a busy week in Washington and their thoughts on the new season of Major League Baseball.

Links:

• Zycher testimony
• Governor Gavin’s Big Oil Bill LA Times
• Biden’s WOTUS tanks in Senate
• We Own the Science
• Rep. Gary Palmer Calls Out Smirking TikTok Lobbyist Sitting Directly Behind CEO

The American Energy Alliance urges all members to vote yes on final passage of H.R. 1 the Lower Energy Costs Act.

This legislation includes common sense reforms and policy changes which will lower energy costs for Americans and encourage domestic investment in resource development as well as reducing red tape for a broad spectrum of energy and energy-related projects. With persistently high inflation, these types of actions to lower costs are all the more needed. The incremental steps...

WASHINGTON DC (03/31/2023) – Today, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act.

AEA President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement: