Below is an editorial from the Oklahoman about the American Products, American Power bus tour, a project of the Institute for Energy Research and the American Energy Alliance. Get out of the way. That, in a nutshell, is the message preached by the American Energy Alliance, a right-leaning nonprofit that stumps for free-market energy policy. The [...]
The Obama Administration Teams with Private Equity Firm to Single Out a Individual Refinery for Help
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Obama administration played “a central role” in encouraging a private equity firm to rescue a struggling refinery in Pennsylvania. This is rather ironic since part of the reason for the refinery’s financial troubles were the Obama administration’s burdensome regulations. Earlier this year, refineries on the East Coast [...]
August 22, 2012 | Emissions Standards, Facts, News, Threats
New Congressional report exposes the fact that fuel economy mandates are ideologically driven and will put Americans’ safety at risk
For years we at the Institute for Energy Research have highlighted the problems with the Obama administration’s corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) mandate. We have written comments to the administration (here and here) and explained how raising the fuel economy standard will reduce safety, price drivers out of the market, and reduce automobile choice and [...]
August 10, 2012 | Corporate Average Fuel Economy, Emissions Standards, News, Renewable Fuel Standard, Threats
ISSA REPORT: ‘DISTURBING, BUT NOT SURPRISING
WASHINGTON D.C. — IER President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement upon today’s release of the House Oversight Committee report, entitled “A Dismissal of Safety, Choice, and Cost: The Obama Administration’s New Auto Regulations.” The investigation — led by Oversight Chairman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) — reveals how White House officials misled the American public and [...]
August 10, 2012 | Corporate Average Fuel Economy, Emissions Standards, News, Threats
American Energy Alliance Releases ‘Phantom Fuels’ Video
WASHINGTON D.C. — The American Energy Alliance released a video today exposing the failure of renewable energy mandates that raise the cost of producing and consuming transportation fuels in the United States. The “Phantom Fuels”video tells the story of cellulosic biofuel, a plant-based fuel source that is not commercially available despite federal law requiring [...]
June 18, 2012 | News, Renewable Fuel Standard
