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A thriving energy market doesn’t just benefit our economy. It spreads freedom the world over.

Economic Resurgence Through Energy Dominance - Life:Powered The new Republican Party platform for the 2024 election includes a list of 20 promises to the American people — promises to right the ship drifting dangerously off course and to return our nation to the peaceful waters of economic strength, national security, and liberty. Republican leaders are...

Most, if not all, of the utilities in Texas have bent the knee to the climate cartel by embracing ESG and opposing reliability standards for heavily subsidized alternative energy sources, namely wind and solar.

This has weakened our infrastructure such that even a relatively mild storm — Beryl struck Texas at just category one — can render millions without power for days.

Misallocation of Funds, Not the Storm, Caused Beryl Power Failures - Life:Powered When Hurricane Beryl approached the Texas coast, families in the storm’s path were rightly worried about gale-force winds and flooding. Power outages are always expected in hurricane season — but nobody anticipated over a million households and businesses losing power, and nobody expected 500,0...

The "Despacito" music video, which got 5 billion plays on YouTube, consumed as much energy as Chad, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia Sierra Leone, and the Central African Republic put together in a single year.

The Energy Cost of Social Media - Life:Powered Natural gas is the reason you can tweet. Coal powers your Facebook stalking and snapchat streaks. Oil allows you to post outfits of the day and vacation updates on your Instagram. Bottom line, fossil fuels make possible the connections and conversations facilitated by social media. Without the utili...

POLL: 46% of electric vehicle owners say they are "likely" to switch back to a gas-powered car.

NEXT WEEK is the Energy Future Forum, presented by RealClear, on June 26 in Washington, D.C. or via livestream for those who cannot attend in person! Don't miss the exciting one-on-one conversations with leading energy policy experts.

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The Energy Future Forum | Dialogues at the Intersection of Technology, Markets, and Policy The Energy Future Forum is a one-day event featuring one-on-one conversations with the foremost experts across energy and environmental policy, capital markets, alternative energy, automotive, oil & gas, mining, nuclear energy, and the grid. The event will be held 8:30AM - 5:00PM EDT in Washington,....

We should welcome the energy transition’s passage through the issue-attention cycle. It means that today’s ineffective and ill-considered climate-mitigation strategies will be abandoned, making room for a more thoughtful and informed approach to responsibly providing for the world’s energy needs.

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Opinion | The ‘Climate Crisis’ Fades Out As the energy transition inches through the ‘issue attention’ cycle, a wiser approach should emerge.

"We have fossil fuels to thank for the twenty-first century for being the best time in human history to be alive." - Fmr. Rep. Jason Isaac in RealClearEnergy

Fossil Fuels: The Best-Kept Secret in Our World Today Apparently, you can litigate anything these days, and it’s gotten far more insidious than suing McDonald’s over hot coffee being, you know, hot. A new climate activist group called Our Chi

"The physical infrastructure needed to support an all-EV future will entail overall costs ranging between $2 trillion and $4 trillion."

READ the NCEA's report from Jonathan Lesser highlighting the cost of mass EV adoption⬇️

Infrastructure Requirements for the Mass Adoption of Electric Vehicles - National Center for Energy Analytics By Jonathan A. Lesser, Ph.D. Download Report Lesser-EV-Report-FinalDownload

TOMORROW: Join us for an insightful panel on the Net-Zero policy reversals in Europe and what happens to Net-Zero in the U.S. if it continues with its current policy trajectory.

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Lessons of Europe’s Net-Zero Policy Failures President Biden is desperately clinging to the unrealistic goal of Net-Zero emissions by 2050, even as Americans push back against his aggressive electric vehicle mandates and multi-trillion-dollar climate initiatives that are continuing to drive up costs. Meanwhile, countries across Europe are back...

Join us on Tuesday for an exciting panel on the failure of Net-Zero policies in Europe and what the U.S. can learn from these mistakes.

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Lessons of Europe’s Net-Zero Policy Failures President Biden is desperately clinging to the unrealistic goal of Net-Zero emissions by 2050, even as Americans push back against his aggressive electric vehicle mandates and multi-trillion-dollar climate initiatives that are continuing to drive up costs. Meanwhile, countries across Europe are back...

Virginia is standing up for Americans’ consumer choice and freedom and rejecting California’s absurd and authoritarian EV mandate!

Governor Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares: Virginia Will Exit California Electric Vehicle Mandate at End of Year Governor Glenn Youngkin, 74th Governor of Virginia

From the Texas Public Policy Foundation's Jason Isaac: The UN’s is underway, where world leaders disembark from their gas-guzzling private jets to spout climate misinformation and tout the U.N.’s China-led agriculture group who lecture people to eat bugs.

Instead of phony climate fights that will ruin lives and benefit China, our world leaders should focus on projects that improve the lives of those they serve.

JASON ISAAC: The U.N.’s Crusade Against Misinformation Is Pure Climate Hypocrisy The U.N. and its climate cartel are the ones pushing the fake news.

Does Climate Czar John Kerry know that EV batteries, solar panels, and wind turbines can’t be produced without fossil fuels? Getting rid of this affordable and reliable energy source should be a non-starter.

The temperatures are dropping in Texas—and so is our ability to rely on wind and solar. The Pirkey Power plant closure in East Texas and the rush to net-zero could make things worse.

Winter is Coming, and We’re Losing Reliable Power The temperatures are dropping in Texas—and so is our ability to rely on wind and solar. A power plant closure in East Texas could make things worse. Fresh off a grid-straining summer, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is preparing for potential energy emergencies this winter with a...

EV subsidies and the Biden administration’s regulatory regime are forcing the transition to EVs to happen much faster than consumers want it, and much faster than automakers are able to make it happen. – TPPF’s Brent Bennett

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Biden’s electric vehicle push speeds past market demand; dealerships at loss, taxpayers paying costs A new study calculates taxpayers are on the hook for a staggering $50,000 for every electric vehicle sold or $22 billion annually, but electric vehicle sales have cooled.

The Biden administration’s Department of Energy is trying to push its electric vehicle agenda with some misleading claims about EV sales. Despite this EV propaganda, the facts speak for themselves and prove that the American people aren’t buying it.

Projects to build EV charging ports have received billions in federal subsidies, all paid for by YOU – the taxpayer. The increased charging stations also put a HUGE strain on the electric grid. Fast charging one EV in under an hour may consume as much power as 100 homes.

A large part of consumer hesitation on EVs comes from the higher upfront cost, and EV sales still only account for a very small portion of the market.

The truth is that EVs are still not affordable enough to compete with gas cars. Our research shows that EVs benefit from generous subsidies, making the true cost of an EV nearly $50,000 more than the current sticker price over 10 years.

The Biden administration’s ESG scam and climate change agenda will tank our markets and destroy rural economies.

Opinion | Companies That Can’t Make Money The SEC pushes a plan to misallocate capital by buying land and taking it out of productive use.

The decision from the Texas State Board of Education to reject textbooks that don’t align with Texas standards will positively impact our education system and Texans for generations to come. - TPPF's Jason Isaac

TPPF Applauds Texas SBOE Decision on New Science Textbooks Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Jason Isaac, Senior Fellow for Life:Powered, released the following statement on the Texas State Board of Education’s (SBOE) decision to approve new classroom scientific materials: “The Texas State Board of Education should be applauded for adopting ...

Winter is coming, and we’re losing reliable power due to net-zero insanity.

Winter is Coming, and We’re Losing Reliable Power The temperatures are dropping in Texas—and so is our ability to rely on wind and solar. A power plant closure in East Texas could make things worse. Fresh off a grid-straining summer, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is preparing for potential energy emergencies this winter with a...

The Texas Public Policy Foundation's Brent Bennett and Jason Isaac found that fueling electric vehicles costs roughly $17 per gallon, but EV drivers are only paying a fraction of that cost.

“EV advocates claim that the cost of electricity for EV owners is equal to $1.21 per gallon of gasoline. Adding the costs of the subsidies to the true cost of fueling an EV would equate to an EV owner paying $17.33 per gallon of gasoline.”

Fueling electric vehicles costs roughly the equivalent of $17 a gallon: Study A new study found that fueling electric vehicles costs roughly $17 per gallon.

🚨🚨NEW from Dr. Brent Bennett and Jason Isaac: President Biden’s administration wants 67% of new cars sold to be electric vehicles by 2032.

The problem is that this green dream is physically impossible to achieve in the next 10 years, and our new research at the Texas Public Policy Foundation shows how much Americans are already paying to try to achieve it.

READ the full piece in The Dallas Morning News:

The true cost of EVs is more than the sticker price The strain of charging an EV results in an average of $11,833 in grid costs per vehicle over 10 years. Instead of spending hundreds of billions of dollars to...

Life:Powered’s Jason Isaac testified before the Committee on Ways and Means GOP on Capitol Hill to highlight the dangers of ESG investing and the threat it poses to Americans’ retirement savings.

Electric vehicles are a bad bargain for the American people. In 2021, $22 billion of government subsidies hid nearly $49,000 of the cost of producing EACH EV. To repeat: $49,000 of hidden costs per vehicle. These costs are borne by gasoline vehicle owners, taxpayers, and utility ratepayers, who are all paying a hefty price for someone else’s EV.

Electric vehicles are a bad bargain for everyone If electric vehicles are as good as the Biden administration would have us believe, why are they so unpopular?