This is so incredibly stupid
America has become a torture chamber for smart people. Ooh the pain!
Good thing there are so few of those left there
I think it’s just the USA, the other 29 countries in America aren’t that bad
just so people are aware, this is FIFTH TIME the administration has done this: Source
If this sounds at all familiar, it’s not your imagination. In March, the Republican administration announced that it had agreed to pay a foreign company almost $1 billion in American taxpayer money to abandon two wind farm projects that would have produced enough electricity to power more than 1.3 million homes and businesses […]
At the administration’s insistence, the company will instead proceed with different energy projects that will cost more and pollute more. [thanks to] President Donald Trump, many American consumers will pay for the privilege of paying more to turn on the lights, all while polluting our own air.
Then in April, it happened again, when the Republican administration announced plans to pay energy companies almost $900 million to abandon plans for two offshore wind farms. Two months later, Team Trump spent $765 million to buy back another group of offshore wind leases.
In late June, a fourth example emerged, when the administration announced plans to pay Duke Energy $129 million to abandon an offshore wind project off the coast of North Carolina.
With a fifth instance this week, the combined price tag for the developments is approaching $4 billion.
Both countries have governments run by very stupid, selfish manbabies and their cronies.
I wonder if that company earned more from being banned from making wind turbines or would be from selling electricity
“After careful consideration, it was determined there is no path forward to permit these projects in the US for the foreseeable future,” the company said in a statement.
From the article it looks like this wasn’t just a carrot being dangled but also a stick being threatened. My guess is that they foresaw the path to completion would be too fraught under the United States government as it is and they don’t see any point in fighting an unwinnable war when they can just get paid anyhow.
The long and short of it is that Germany and Europe as well as the rest of the world at this point sees no point in investing in America’s future because we have none.
That company will just build elsewhere instead.
Well yes but they earned money from anti windmill administration and I wondered how long would this farm would need to work to earn it back
Levels of dumb never thought possible.
The US could switch off their nuclear powerplants to accelerate the transition to hydrocarbons.
The day’s not over yet!
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a statement posted on X that Americans deserve an energy system built on common sense and not one dependent on “costly subsidies”.
Thank god we’re not paying costly subsidies
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said in a statement posted on X that Americans deserve an energy system built on common sense and not one dependent on “costly subsidies”.
I actually want to vomit from how stupid as fuck that whole country is to not have done anything to these people.
Hey America, I am going to build an offshore wind park. Please pay me to stop.
A Shame
1.2 billion of free money to not do work. Wow the trump administration sure knows how to waist money.
So it’s not just the american “business” people that are corrupt, it’s “business” people everywhere, throughout the land. Time to go back to hunting and gathering methinks. /s
dj is serving the oil companies, not the people
If I was president I would order every new wind turbine be planted out side every trump golf course in the United states. 6 per golf course and tackey hotel
What the heck? Why would they care if Germany is generating power?
Im THIS close to throwing my phone into an open fire
The US was paying them to build wind power projects in the US, now the US is paying them to build gas power projects in the US.
Ohh that makes a lot more sense, i skimmed across the article
No, they paid a German company that was building massive off-shore wind power production in the US to cancel the project and reimbursed them for voiding the lease on those off-shore areas.
Basically the US pays to keep economically viable wind power financed privately away, then pays again for the subsidies to get economically non-viable fossil fuel power generators build instead. All while screaming how they don’t want to take part in that renewable scam that only works because of subsidies.
It’s so stupid, you would be laughed out of the room if you brought up such an idea in serious fiction…
RWE is a shitty company anyways
They are getting paid $1.2B to build other power projects in the US. Not to simply do nothing.
