Some Biden administration officials are coming forward to douse a healthy dose of reality on the rhetoric and mixed messages coming out of the White House that continues to blame U.S. companies for rising prices at the pump. During an American Clean Power Association forum on Wednesday, the director of the Energy Department’s Loan Programs
Read More...Democrats from oil producing states are pushing back against the Biden administration’s prospective proposal to reinstate the crude oil export ban as a hopeful solution to bring down the price of gasoline for American consumers. The letter, signed by Reps. Henry Cuellar (Tex.), Vicente Gonzalez (Tex.), Sylvia Garcia (Tex.), Lizzie Fletcher (Tex.), Tim Ryan (Ohio)
Read More...Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will meet with energy leaders today to discuss solutions to lower record high gasoline prices. The meeting was prompted after President Biden sent a letter last week to companies where he blundered over refinery capacity and the media began calling out top Democrats over their mixed messages. Ahead of the meeting,
Read More...Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency denied the state of Utah’s request to seek a waiver from the ozone nonattainment list, ignoring key data that shows the majority of the state’s ozone problems lie outside of the state’s control. Utah’s waiver, submitted last year by the state’s Department of Air Quality (UDAQ) and known as
Read More...On Thursday, Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm will hold a meeting with leaders in the petroleum refining sector as prices at the pump recently hit a record high of $5 per gallon. The meeting comes on the heels of President’s Biden letter to energy companies demanding they ramp up refining capacity that, as Energy In Depth
Read More...Leading national media outlets just aren’t buying the spin from top Biden administration officials and Congressional Democrats on gasoline prices that recently hit a record high of $5 per gallon. This past week, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) were both called out by major cable TV hosts on their mixed messages
Read More...The past week has been filled with President Joe Biden blundering over gasoline prices and refinery capacity, the Interior Department once again delaying federal lease sales, and a leading Democratic senator calling for tax increases on energy companies. Lost in the shuffle, John Kerry – the U.S. Special Presidential Envoy for Climate – was busy
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Read More...High efficiency natural gas furnaces could soon be on the chopping block if a proposed new rule from the Department of Energy is implemented. The proposed rules would raise minimum efficiency standards from 80 percent today to 95 percent efficiency by 2029. If approved, it would ban cost-effective and highly efficient natural gas furnaces in
Read More...Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, June 17, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100
Read More...Energy Poverty Is the Result of Green Energy Policies Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog…. .… … [Editor’s Note: Energy poverty is the result of stupid green energy political correctness and the only real solution to more affordable energy is more oil and gas
Read More...It has been a year to the day since a federal judge issued an injunction against the ban on oil and natural gas leasing on federal lands and ordered the Department of Interior to resume holding lease sales, and yet, no onshore lease sales have taken place. In fact, the department postponed (again) sales that
Read More...The Biden administration continues to show a lack of understanding on how energy markets work as the public calls for solutions to gasoline prices hitting a record high $5 per gallon nation average. Most recently, the president sent a letter to major U.S. oil companies demanding they increase refining capacity and blaming them for “blunting
Read More...Climate Corporatists and Totalitarians Want to Shut Us Down! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. The climate cult consists of corporatists and ideological totalitarians now trying to shut down any dissent over their raid on the treasury and halls of power. Political correctness has oozed into every corner of civil society today. It
Read More...A top Democratic senator wants to increase taxes on American oil companies despite gasoline prices recently hitting a record high of $5 per gallon. It continues the mixed messages from President Biden, top administration officials, and congressional Democrats who have all vowed to bring down prices at the pump but are proposing policies that would
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