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German energy company RWE has said it will abandon its offshore wind projects in the US after reaching a $1.2bn (£892m) payout deal with Donald Trump’s Department of the Interior (DOI).
RWE said that it will now reinvest the sum into conventional gas projects, including $900m (£669m) in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export terminal project in Louisiana.
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Using our taxpayer dollars to screw us over harder each day…
I really think je wants to have global warming kill humanity before hè dies himself. It’s the only explanation
Donald Quichot strikes again!
This is same deal that was announced 3-6 months ago? Company is getting free money to break lease, in exchange for investing 75% of it with likelihood of making good ROI from that money. US would have more energy if project stayed. I’m sure some climate terrorist interests will find money for LNG under the couch cushions.
Infuriating: https://xcancel.com/SecretaryBurgum/status/2085409733989589124
Americans deserve an energy system built on common sense, not one dependent on costly subsidies
Costly subsides like giving them $1.2bn to cancel a project that will generate free energy?
It’s a good thing the US doesn’t heavily subsidize fossil fuels
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Exactly! We paid them 1.2bn and they built nothing!
Wind power is great bit it’s not exactly free energy.
No energy source is free. What’s your point?
Is he actually sabotaging us on purpose at this point?
At this point?
The US have more gas/oil resources than most other countries and especially China. It’s more financially efficient to use fossil fuels and the US economy is built around them. If there is a plan it seems to be putting the squeeze on global oil trade (Iran, Venezuela, Greenland), and then holding all the cards so that their economy prevails. The worst thing that could happen to them is the rest of the world being able to thrive without fossil fuels.
I think they lose anyway though. It’s inevitable.
But renewables are already cheaper than fossil fuels and the rest of the world IS going to move on, we can’t stop them, he is limiting our ability to produce energy at the same time the economy is being propped up by new data centers
He’s (when I say he, obviously he’s not really in charge) creating an environment such that the world (especially Europe) can’t move on, by squeezing their need for fossil fuels in the short term and delaying their ability to invest in their own infrastructure. Furthermore, the USA is one of the best-placed countries (especially Vs china and europe) in a warming climate due to the size of their natural resources of water. Russia is a silent winner in all of this due to their own natural resources.
If you look at the actions of the USA since trump took office, and ignore the figureheads on the television, the USA is doing the best it can to accelerate global warming and protect it’s own economy at all costs.
Yes but his golf buddies own fossil fuel companies, not renewables.
Ask a climatologist why!
Since day one.
So it’s not just that he’s stupid, it’s the russian asset thing?
There’s always corruption waiting in the wings. Did the German company pay him? Maybe. Did the oil/coal/gas companies pay him? Maybe.
This is much like the tariff refunds, right? Trump makes money by insider trading, probably gets bribed too, and the US taxpayers foot a gigantic bill which pays the people who bribed him.
What is shocking, if you haven’t seen it before, is the difference in the amount he makes versus the amount it costs us. For example, if you give Trump a million dollars, he’ll happily waste a hundred million of our dollars… You might think 100x is excessive, like can’t he steal a little more efficiently, amirite, but basically criminals don’t give a shit about collateral damage, so the thought never crossed his mind.
Maybe. Or maybe sufficiently advanced corruption is indistinguishable from high treason.
lol, I think this is the most important takeaway here. We feel a natural pull to understand as critical thinking humans, but at the end of the day, it doesn’t matter if it’s maliciousness or incompetence
They don’t call him “Agent Krasnov” for nothing.
He doesn’t like them ruining his view so he makes up bullshit about renewables efficiency and impact
He’s dumb and selfish, literally all about image
Also, petro is masculine, solar and wind: gay and feminine.
What is more masculine than harvesting the biggest available energy source in the solar system? Or extracting energy out of the movement of air like a Wizard? Using long dead microorganisms feels pretty mundane in comparison.
Nope: drilling into the ground and pumping it out so you can “roll coal” on bikers and hybrids/EVs - heroic and manly, obvs.
Harvesting wind and solar: means UR GAY.
I’m of course kidding, but for a whole lot of men (and toxic women) they are dead serious about this kind of thing.
I remember one of my roommates pointedly throwing an aluminum can into the trashcan with about ten people in the kitchen with him - when the recycling bin was right there - it was butted up next to the trash can. It was not about effort.
When either myself or someone else asked him - uh, WTF, man? His response, not even kidding: “Recycling?!!! I’m not a F__!” I mean, this was the mid-90s and recycling was slowly creeping into daily life, but even then, there was kind of this general expectation that everyone is part of society and we have exactly one planet, and this kind of casual homophobia was not exactly embraced in most circles even back then.
But this guy was so worried he might be perceived as womanly or gay over giving a shit about the environment…
This is such a sad story. So many men do not realize what patriachism is doing to them, making them behave like idiots and morons. It’s also the source of why these men are so scared of being perceived as anything else than super-masc.
Patriarchism hurts everyone, not just women or the LGBT community. The expected behaviours are also violent against everyone who cares about their environment at large.
Also, it seems like a certain kind of man spends so much time on obsessing over this kind of thing. I just don’t get how someone can possibly have the time or energy for such nonsense, though I’ve definitely had these types in my life in high school and in college.
But seeing someone like Jesse Watters clutching his pearls with his “rules for men” is so wild that I sometimes wonder if he’s not really something like a Sacha Baron Cohen character doing a very long con.
I mean, telling men they cannot cross their legs, or drink soup or use straws in public? Is he serious with that shit? If Jesse Watters was someone in my life, I’d go out of my way to do all three in front of him. Maybe I’d drink soup through a straw, while crossing my legs, LOL.
Same goes for what I hear about some of the younger “influencers” telling a bunch of young men/teenagers how to be men…it borders on the comical, but I think it’s also quite dangerous to our culture.
I have to agree, and want to add to you last paragraph.
The “influencers” are only able to spread their bullshit because we left young men behind somewhere 20 years ago in feminism. I agree that feminism should be primarily about women, but most of feminism did never think about what role young men should strive towards when patriarchism is dismantled. We now have a situation where feminism was able to improve the situation of women somewhat, but it also created a lot of uncertainty in young men who feel that they now have no place in a society that often is prejudicial against them because it is expected that they behave just as bad as the previous generations. This opens up an opportunity for the worst of humanity, coming from the right wing - they are filling their minds with misogynist and anti-LGBT ideas to give them an identity that they are missing because the previous push against patriarchism offered no alternative to them.
The next wave of feminism should take that as a lesson: you can’t just dismantle a system without offering the participants of that system a worthwhile position in the new system, or they will refuse your system - often violently.
I hope RWE will spend the money on renewable systems in Europe then.
As I read it, part of the deal was that RWE is investing that money into natural gas in the US.
The ART OF THE DEAL, ladies and gentlemen.
the fuck…
The question is what gas companies does he own?
He’s using government money to shut down the competition
Yep, have you not been paying attention for the past entire decade?
Trump to be refunded this personally by the Oil companies
I want you to shoot yourself in the foot. How much?
More like: how much can I pay you to shoot myself in the foot?
RWE should take the money and go back home and not reinvest it.
