Biden Buries Restrictive Lease Plan Under Holiday Weekend

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 […]

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Watch Rep. Rho Khanna Backtrack on Domestic Oil Production

Many leading Democrats in Congress, including Rep. Rho Khanna, ran for office promising to end domestic production of natural gas, oil, & coal. Back in October of last year, he praised oil companies for decreasing oil production in Europe and asked if they were embarrassed because they were increasing production in the United States.  Now […]

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Biden Rolls Back Another Trump Era Reform

President Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposes to restore authority to states and tribes under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act to veto gas pipelines, coal terminals and other energy projects, reversing a Trump administration rule that had curtailed that power. Prior to 2020, the Clean Water Act gave states and tribes the ability to review […]

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Biden’s Lease Sales Account for Less Than 0.01% Of Federal Land

On Friday, April 15, President Joe Biden announced 144,000 acres of the federal mineral estate opened for oil and gas leasing—just 0.00589 percent of the 2.46 billion acres the American people own. Along with this announcement, Biden increased the rents on leased land and the royalties companies must pay on every barrel of oil and every cubic foot […]

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Biden Attacks Oil Producers To Shift Blame On Gas Prices

President Joe Biden is expected to call on Congress to pass legislation enacting “use it or lose it” fines on wells that oil companies have leased from the federal government but have not used in years and “on acres of public lands that they are hoarding without producing…Companies that are producing from their leased acres and […]

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The Unregulated Podcast #76: The Passage of Time

On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast, Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss Vice President Harris’ muddled messaging generally and the Biden administration’s mixed messaging on energy production specifically. Links: KAMALA HARRIS: “The significance of the passage of time, right? The significance of the passage of time.” One of the problems with CA’s gas rebate […]

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Rep. Ro Khanna Flip Flops After Seeing Poll Numbers

Rep. Ro Khanna, a Democrat from California, has been putting pressure on domestic oil companies to lower production for months. In October he was interrogating oil CEO’s about why they were increasing production as their ‘European Counterparts’ were lowering their own—seemingly a moral good in Rep. Khanna’s eyes. Now that gas prices in his state […]

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Biden Doubles Down On Anti-Energy Onslaught

Biden’s campaign promise: “No more subsidies for the fossil fuel industry. No more drilling including offshore. No ability for the oil industry to continue to drill period. It ends.” That President Biden is now asking the U.S. oil industry to produce more is ironic after taking steps to do just the opposite. Further, he has little understanding […]

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