Tom Pyle

President of @IERenergy and @AEA in Washington, DC. Our mission: promote energy realism and fight for consumers. Co-host of @TheUnregPodcast.

[Anas Alhajji @anasalhajji]

🔴Any journalist who covers this and fails to question the price angle is fooling themselves before they fool their readers. Clean energy has NOT lowered overall energy bills. In many places, it has raised them.

🪸Clean energy has always been sold as being about “clean air and water,” never about lowering prices. So why are they changing the narrative now?

[Kevin Mooney @KevinMooneyDC]

@IERenergy
Explodes false study
Energy Innovation’s “Soaring Bills” Study Is Nonsense https://t.co/b0ZbjFRauU

[Kevin Mooney @KevinMooneyDC]

@IERenergy points out that #Massachusetts is the only New England that has an internal "cap and trade on top of being in RGGI. @https://www.realclearenergy.org/articles/2026/10/16/proposed_natural_gas_pipeline_expansion_forecast_to_lower_energy_bills_in_massachusetts_1211908.html

[Tom Pyle @TomJPyle]

This 👇

[Rep Ken deGraaf, CO HD-22 @COrepKdeGraaf]

RFS/RIN mandate adjustment (largest effect): Recent high RIN prices (~$1.75–2.40 for D6 ethanol RINs) create an estimated compliance cost of ~30–37¢/gal passed through into gasoline/diesel prices (EPRINC, IER, and related analyses cite ~27–37¢ or higher in peak 2026 periods; annual totals $50–60+ billion). This acts as a tax on petroleum fuels and a subsidy to ethanol. Rough removal of the RFS pass-through from gasoline and addition of the embedded RIN value to the ethanol-heavy E85 (~75% ethanol × ~$2 RIN) produces policy-adjusted pre-tax estimates of roughly ~$3.45–3.50/gal for regular and ~$3.10–3.20/gal for E85.⁠Instituteforenergyresearch

Production credits (45Z) + energy density: Section 45Z Clean Fuel Production Credit adds roughly $0.10–0.35/gal (typical corn ethanol range; higher with low-CI practices or CCS; one reported example ~$0.33). Adding a midpoint ~$0.20 on the ethanol portion raises the adjusted E85 figure by ~$0.15. On an energy basis (E85 ~70–75% of gasoline BTU content, ~73% used here), the policy- and credit-adjusted energy-equivalent cost of E85 rises to roughly $4.20–4.60/gal equivalent, comparable to or higher than the adjusted gasoline cost.

[Tom Pyle @TomJPyle]

@AlexEpstein Need to waive the RVO obligation as well.

[Tom Pyle @TomJPyle]

@US_OGA In the old days they had subcommittee and full committee markups and conference reports. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Tom Pyle @TomJPyle]

@BioDaddy76 @OilandGibbs No. I'm saying they will use the biofuel that makes sense for them to use, but they won't have to pass on the cost of the mandate.

[Tom Pyle @TomJPyle]

@OilandGibbs Are you suggesting that people won't use your product if it's not mandated?

[Tom Pyle @TomJPyle]

@BioDaddy76 @OilandGibbs Not true. Refiners would still blend ethanol. RIN cost is a pure pass through.

[Tom Pyle @TomJPyle]

Another suggestion: The renewable-fuel obligation (aka tax) is embedded in wholesale diesel. A broad, time-limited waiver or lower RVO can lower the price by ~37 cents a gallon. Suspend the federal diesel tax (24 cents) and that 61 cents right there. Are you with me, @chuckgrassley?

[Chuck Grassley @ChuckGrassley]

A suggestion 4 Pres Trump: Since ur hearing frm Big Oil abt diesel prices & the problems w an embargo tell Big Oil 2reduce their prices 4 Americans/not charge global price This is an America 1st issue WHY B ENERGY INDEPENDENT IF WE ARENT GOING 2USE IT WHEN WE NEED IT

[Tom Pyle @TomJPyle]

How about you share the language with us so we can decide for ourselves?

[Sen. Lisa Murkowski @lisamurkowski]

Permitting reform is one of the best things we can do for our country, and the package negotiated in the Senate is objectively good for our country. We should take it up and pass it this work period, instead of waiting and potentially missing our window.

[Tom Pyle @TomJPyle]

@ElectricCat8 “Trust us, this bill is awesome.”

[Tom Pyle @TomJPyle]

How would we know? You won’t make it public.

[Martin Heinrich @SenatorHeinrich]

The permitting deal is not dead.

[Tom Pyle @TomJPyle]

@KurtCouchman I’m old enough to remember that.

[Energy In Depth @EnergyInDepth]

"Export bans would lead to less fuel production, tighter supplies, and rising costs." @TomJPyle of @AEA lays out why a diesel export ban could backfire and leave consumers worse off.
https://t.co/Nk2ZDiCVyS

[Tom Pyle @TomJPyle]

@STUARTTURLEY16 It 'aint over 'till its over, Stuart.

[Tom Pyle @TomJPyle]

@verandatw It's not simple, unfortunately. I wish it were.

On a separate note, for someone who has "try to be nice EVERYONE! Don't be the problem" as their motto, you posts seem to run contrary to that. Just sayin'

[Tom Pyle @TomJPyle]

@timburchett I ate fewer calories today than I burned, yet I didn't lose any weight.