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.
Is he actually sabotaging us on purpose at this point?
Since day one.
So it’s not just that he’s stupid, it’s the russian asset thing?
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.
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.
Actually he’s a pants-shitting, trundling confluence of all of the worst possible qualities a person could have in this context: He hates American citizens and believes he is above them, and he is personally embittered by the rejection he experienced by the elites and craves spite and retribution, and is committed to the interests of rival powers by choice or by pressure, and is a brainbroke stroke victim with advanced dementia who was never actually intelligent to begin with, and also is just in all of this out of self-interest, whether that’s profit, indulgence, or just plain evading prison and consequences for his many many crimes.
The issue here is that it can be, and is, many terrible things at once, but we humans tend to reduce everything to a single and primary cause… That’s not wrong to do, but it does blind us to the depth of the threat he poses and the future damage he will cause.
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.
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
Yes but his golf buddies own fossil fuel companies, not renewables.
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 a bit, but he is also really fucking stupid.
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
/s
Wind power is great bit it’s not exactly free energy.
No energy source is free. What’s your point?
The post I replied to implied that it’s free energy. My point is that it isn’t, exactly.
The question is what gas companies does he own?
He’s using government money to shut down the competition
The ART OF THE DEAL, ladies and gentlemen.
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?
the fuck…
Using our taxpayer dollars to screw us over harder each day…
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.
Trump to be refunded this personally by the Oil companies
RWE should take the money and go back home and not reinvest it.
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.
