“An America First energy agenda … focuses on creating a transparent and fair regulatory environment that creates a level playing field for all energy sources to compete, eliminating harmful regulations and barriers to growth across industries, allowing for investment in crucial infrastructure and jobs, reducing dependence on unstable foreign energy sources, and protecting the environment.”
Previous posts at MasterResource have examined the energy positions of the Jill Stein/Green Party, Kamala Harris, GOP Platform, American Petroleum Institute, and Heritage Foundation/Agenda 25. This post reproduces the energy positions of America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a think tank in the Trump fold.
Pillar VII of AFPI’s “Make American Energy Independent” begins:
Our American energy sector achieved something else as well: in attaining new heights of innovation and development, the U.S.…
Continue Reading“EPA is attempting to hide its illegal electric vehicles mandate behind a ‘fleetwide’ average…. Congress has not directed EPA to force the adoption of electric vehicles, EPA is claiming this mandate unilaterally.” -CRA Tailpipe Coalition Letter (below)
The public/citizen backlash against Energy Statism grows. The most recent victory came last week with House passage of a Congressional Review Act resolution of disapproval, introduced by Reps. John James (R-Mich.) and Russ Fulcher (R-Idaho), against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed de facto electric vehicle mandate, “Multi-Pollutant Emissions Standards for Model Year 2027 and Later Light-Duty Vehicles“.
The vote was 215-191, with all but one Republican and eight Democrats in favor. Twenty-five members did not vote.
“The very idea that the federal government would try and kill off gas-powered cars should scare anyone concerned with basic freedoms in this country,” noted Daren Bakst , Director of the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Center for Energy and Environment.…
Continue ReadingI have always preferred to focus on specific policy issues and not get too involved in personalities and relative character. In my feuds with David Boaz, Tom Palmer, and Steve Horwitz over Donald Trump/TDS, utter distain, even Hate, seems to trump public policy.
Trying to understand this better, I recently visited the website of The UnPopulist, which describes itself as in favor of “liberal democracy” as opposed to “intolerant populist nationalism, including in the United States…”
I immediately read a piece by Steve Chapman, “Kamala Harris Might be Less Injurious to the American Economy than Trump.” It can with the subtitle: “Neither is exactly a devotee of Milton Friedman but at least Harris won’t use fiscal and economic policy to settle personal scores and violate the rule of law.”…
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