So hold on, doesn't this mean that companies can just threaten to build wind turbines and get a bunch of bribes? Any sensible businessman would immediately spin up 500 companies to do this as fast as possible.
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Then use the money to build an even bigger solar farm.
It's contingent on building fossil fuel plants.
The Interior Department hailed the “innovative agreement” with the French energy giant and said, “the American people will no longer pay for ideological subsidies that benefited only the unreliable and costly offshore wind industry.″
I want these ghouls to not be alive anymore man
Phew! Good! This WAR has Taught me the LAST thing I want my Tax Dollars going towards is Energy that our Enemies DONT Control!
-Republicans!
Usas economy relies on other countries use of oil.
USA is going to collapse once the world wakes up to the fact it's being played out like a Mafia controlled neighborhood.
They rely on other countries using the Petrodollar, not buying oil. Once other countries move to another currency America will go bankrupt, and that isn't speculation, it's very much reality. America is doing everything to stop this.
It won't work though, the talk have already started happening. Americans better get used to the a lower standard is living because it's going to be impossible to increase moving standards under the current debt.
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like who cares? let USA die if they want, not a problem for the rest of the world. When you start a war, don't expect others to help you.
Climate change is everyone's problem.
Not anymore. It's only problem for the rest of the world. If MR president does not like it, then they won't get perks like wind farms.
They normalized pedophilia, and now they normalizing wars, at some point people are this is fine, lets wait mid terms, right? They don't care about climate change. Just watch some NBA this week and see how people care.
are you serious?
Sure, cause hurricanes stop at the border
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It's a problem for Canada lmao
Yes and no. It opens up a lot of land and minerals to us, we're just not so morally bankrupt as to want to take advantage and encourage it like some demented orange fucks, and given the way Americans have been over the last while, Canadians will do what it takes and unify to protect our borders from the little American tribes that squabble below us in the divided oblast.
Folks closer to the equator are truly fucked. Say bye bye to Jabba's Palace ie Mar-A-Lago, not that Donald the Demented will be around much longer anyway.
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I would like to throw my hat in the ring and say that I will not build a wind farm for a mere $500M
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Hey, if we all club together we could get through the first few stages of getting our own windfarm approved and then Trump could pay us a billion to cancel and we all walk away with a share.
Who's in?
And then build it anyways.
Well yea, that's what we need the billion for. It's the AI startup model.
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You take the billion bucks, fold the company, start a new company, and build more windmills!
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it's about the offshore view from his golf course. self-serving scumbag. needs oil platforms
As a huge metal fan I love this but as a wind power fan I regret to inform you those aren't made of metal, they're composite, metal is weigh too heavy and expensive.
I can't imagine thinking wind turbines are ugly. There's something wrong with conservative brains
Yes.
Primarily, too much fear response. Fear makes you stupid.
Secondarily, too much in-group loyalty. They'll do and believe anything if that's what the group believes.
Easiest question to shut them up: "Would you rather live next to a wind turbine, or an oil refinery?"
Or nuclear reactor, or coal powerplant.
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What's hilarious about all this is if you actually go there and look out to see you can barely even see the wind turbines.
This is beyond stupidity.
China will be decades ahead in energy with these moronic decisions and eventually that’s also proportional to AI scalability.
Will be?
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I have an idea... Take the money... And then do it anyway. That's what he did countless times in his life
The terms are that the trump admin will give them the Money only if/when that french company builds a gigaproject on fossil fuels. And it's 99.9% sure that he will change his taco mind on that when it's time to open the wallet
Ahh so then they should pull their pants down (and their underwear) and say 'do me like you did Bill Clinton and then we'll talk!'
Instead, TotalEnergies will now spend the money on the development of a new liquified natural gas plant in Texas that will help export US LNG overseas to Europe, CEO Patrick Pouyanné said in a statement.
Again the ever quixotic Don tilts at windmills! Onward, Rocinante!
The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/23/climate/trump-totalenergies-offshore-wind-cancellation
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He heard it called a wind farm and thinks they produce wind there.
You might be onto something. Isn't wind a pretty big annoyance for golfers ? And we're talking about the guy who watched a solar eclipse with his bare eyes here.
He really is still salty Scotland built some and spoiled the view off his golf course.
Paying not to build something feels like the most expensive way to do nothing.
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