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On April 15, Biden’s Interior Department’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) finalized a new rule requiring federal offshore oil and natural gas leaseholders to provide an estimated $6.9 billion in additional financial assurances to cover offshore decommissioning costs. The goal of the financial assurances is to limit the number of abandoned wells in the Gulf of Mexico’s Outer […]
On March 29, 2024, Good Friday, Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rolled out its new electric truck mandate, which will require that electric semi-trucks make up an increasing share of manufacturer sales from 2027 through 2032, similar to its recent rule for passenger cars. EPA’s rule would effectively require electric models to account for 60 percent of new urban delivery trucks […]
On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss recent movement on Capitol Hill and cover a litany of headlines from a busy week in the beltway and beyond. Links: American Energy Alliance · #175: The Last American (3/27/24)
WASHINGTON DC (03/20/2024) – Today, the Biden administration finalized a gas-powered vehicle ban that aims to remake the transportation sector and fundamentally upend the American way of life. The regulation mandates electric vehicle adoption by requiring 67 percent of new light-duty and 46 percent of new medium-duty vehicle sales to be EVs by 2032. It […]
The cost to consumers of two offshore wind projects expected to support New York’s self-imposed climate goals has more than doubled from their original estimates, which were high to begin with. Developers had threatened to cancel their offshore wind projects without higher prices, citing inflation, supply chain challenges and rising costs driven by the pandemic, Bidenomics […]
Supposedly, the reason for switching to electric vehicles from gasoline-powered vehicles is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by using less gasoline and thus oil. However, a country that was way ahead of the United States in the transition to electric vehicles found that its oil demand did not decline from EV use despite electric vehicles making up 64 […]
BYD, China’s largest EV auto maker, which recently surpassed Tesla as the world’s biggest seller of electric vehicles, is reviewing potential locations for a plant in Mexico that would allow it to bring its low-cost electric vehicles into the United States. Mexico offers close proximity to U.S. markets, relatively low labor costs and the opportunity to take […]
In a concession to automakers and labor unions during an election year, the Biden administration plans to relax elements of its regulations to limit tailpipe emissions that are designed to get Americans to switch from gas-powered cars to electric vehicles. Biden’s EPA is planning to give automakers more time to ramp up sales of electric vehicles. The […]
On this episode of The Unregulated Podcast Tom Pyle and Mike McKenna discuss the left’s war on coffee and modern life, as well as the latest from the 2024 race for the White House. Links: American Energy Alliance · #166: Forward Down the Field (1/26/24)
WASHINGTON DC (09/19/2023) – Gasoline prices are on the rise as Saudi Arabia and Russia have announced another round of production cuts. Meanwhile, President Biden and congressional Democrats are doubling down on their efforts to make energy harder to produce and more expensive to purchase in the United States. The Biden administration claims it wants […]