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
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...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...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
Read More...Coming off a U.S. Supreme Court win last year, energy companies have once again petitioned the high court to resolve a key jurisdictional issue in the climate litigation campaign, this time citing the lawsuit filed by the City and County of Boulder and the County of San Miguel, which has struggled to build local support
Read More...If you’re scratching your chin over U.S. energy policy these days, you aren’t alone. The Biden administration has been sending mixed signals for months over how it will shape the future of domestic energy production and consumption. And nowhere has that been more obvious or confusing than in the administration’s rhetoric and actions on oil
Read More...Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg became the latest Biden administration official to display a stunning lack of awareness around how the oil and natural gas markets work during an interview Sunday on ABC News “This Week.” When program host George Stephanopoulos asked Buttigieg about the national average price for a gallon of gasoline quickly approaching $5
Read More...The Washington Post is calling the White House to task for President Biden’s fantastical claim that his plan to fight inflation and reduce energy costs would save families $500 in annual utility savings. The Washington Post rated the claim at four Pinocchios – a score that goes beyond “significant factual error.” Whoops President Biden cites
Read More...The Oil and Gas Threat Map, a newly launched interactive map from two anti-fracking activist organizations, simply rehashes flawed research in an updated format. The map, a product of Earthworks and the FracTracker Alliance, is a virtual tool with a dynamic user interface that purports to map out “threat zones” around the country where the
Read More...With gasoline prices soaring, the Biden administration is scrambling to find a way to give Americans some relief at the pump—including bringing back a ban on crude oil exports. But banning exports of American energy would do little to lower gasoline prices and could even cause prices to increase in the long run. Speaking to
Read More...In an odd turn of events this week, President Biden appeared to do a complete 180 from the previously stated White House position that the administration is using every tool in its toolbox to encourage increased U.S. oil production, as a tool to lower the price at the pump. Let’s hear the president’s seemingly new
Read More...It’s only been a few short years since the United States demonstrated that it can compete in the global oil market, and in fact, quite literally drilled its way to lower gasoline prices. Yet, with gasoline prices once again on the rise, the Biden administration continues to look beyond U.S. borders to OPEC+ to solve
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