As talks intensify on the once ambitious “Build Back Better” reconciliation measure, the conversation has shifted towards how to pay for a slimmer, but no less disruptive package of subsidies for wind, solar, electric vehicles, and other non-energy related measures. The Democrats would be satisfied to raise corporate taxes.  Some in the business community, however, are rumored to be lobbying the Democrats to tax energy instead. Enter S. 2378, a proposal  by Senator Chris Coons (D-DE) to...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast, Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna disscuss President Biden's "secret plan" to defeat inflation and other headlines from this week.

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• One year ago today, Joe Biden held one of the most embarrassing press conferences in American history, claiming it was "highly unlikely" the Taliban would take over Afghanistan. One month later, it happened.
• RIP Woody Williams, the last surviving MOH recipient from WW2. All gone. All 472.
• "You didn't answer his...

The Biden administration has recently called on America's natural gas and oil companies to invest billions of dollars into increasing production, BUT at the same time, President Biden and his cronies are promising to run them out of business in the next few years!

It's time for Biden to get his story straight on American energy production.

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President Biden’s Department of Interior released its draft offshore lease plan late on  July 1—just before the Fourth of July holiday, as American families were paying historically-high gasoline prices for their travels.  The plan is required by law and a final plan was due by June 30, when the current plan ended. The draft plan lays out several options for public input regarding the number of offshore oil and gas lease sales that should be held over the next five years, ranging from ...

Russian natural gas supply to Europe via the Nord Stream 1 pipeline capacity fell to 40 percent recently as Russia cut flows awaiting the return of equipment sent to Canada for repair and warns that more delays in repairs could lead to cutting all flows, putting additional strain on Europe’s ability to refill its natural gas inventories and raising prices by 40 percent . Gazprom, the state-controlled gas company, indicated that Western sanctions made it impossible to secure the return...

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast, Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss Team Biden's latest ideas on how to tackle inflation, energy prices, and the crisis in Europe, as well as the latest round of decisions from the Supreme court.

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• High fossil fuel prices are good for the planet – here’s how to keep them high while avoiding riots or hurting the poor
• Biden administration report shows massive fossil fuel industry job losses
• Letter to Haaland
• Tom on Varney & Co.
• US...

Chief Justice Roberts Writes for a Six-Justice Majority in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency

WASHINGTON DC (06/30/2022) – Today, the Supreme Court decided West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency. Chief Justice Roberts wrote the Court's opinion concluding that the EPA lacks broad authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants under the Clean Air Act.

AEA Director of Policy and Federal Affairs Kenny Stein issued the following...

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that nine new fields will come online in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico this year, which will account for 5 percent of natural gas production and 14 percent of oil production in U.S. federal Gulf of Mexico waters by the end of 2023 . However, EIA expects that the additional capacity from these new fields will not sustain oil production at levels similar to the end of 2021 in offshore fields. According to EIA, declining production...

Between August 2021 and February 2022, President Biden’s Bureau of Land Management’s approval of drilling permits was low, averaging about 200 per month. After Russia invaded Ukraine, however, the approvals picked up with 473 approved in March and 357 approved in April. Those approvals were still much less than the 600+ approved in April and May 2021. And, there is still a large number of pending permits: over 4,400. Biden’s call on U.S. oil and gas producers to drill more — and his...

Monday, June 27, AEA president Tom Pyle joined Stuart Varney on Fox Business to discuss the Biden administration's refusal to embrace energy realism. Watch the video below to see Tom call out Biden for chasing the "green dream" even while scaring away investments in reliable, affordable sources of energy.

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