Trump Administration Will Pay More Energy Firms to Cancel Wind Farms | In exchange, the companies will invest in oil and gas projects, echoing earlier deal with the French energy giant TotalEnergies
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/climate/trump-administration-wind-farms.html?unlocked_article_code=1.eFA.7LKn.XtmvpBkItUgY
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UnspecificGravity@piefed.social · 79 pts · 139d
Remember when Congress was in charge of how money got spent?
radiofreebc@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 139d
Asafum@lemmy.world · 58 pts · 139d
This is absolutely fucking infuriating.... WE'RE PAYING to fuck our future and enrich his fuckass buddies...
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 138d
And him, first and foremost him
patruelis@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 139d
The level if stupid is not even funny anymore.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 139d
Get ready for the price of electricity to jump
silence7@slrpnk.net · 24 pts · 139d
The only real hedge against that is to install rooftop solar
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 139d
Some states moving to make that illegal, or making you pay the electric company for not being connected
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 139d
That's atrocious.
Crt_static@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 139d
Doesn't help people in apartments with electricity hitting $500/no in some seasons
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 139d
"Just be a homeowner"
Frustrating to see the libertarian ideology of economic isolationism persist in an increasingly fascistic economy.
As though even home ownership spares you from artificially high home installation prices created by the Trump tarrifs
Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 139d
Really pissing me off since I had hoped to have a few more years before financing a solar installation.
fitgse@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 139d
Would love to but many states still make it incredibly hard/expensive.
newton@feddit.online · 4 pts · 139d
Here we have negatif prices
https://www.energyprices.eu/electricity/belgium
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 139d
Hey now, the US managed negative fossil fuel prices just last March, thanks to overproduction
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 34 pts · 139d
Pure malice, cool.
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 139d
We could have cheap climate-positive energy sources if it wasn't for these fucks and their greed...
newton@feddit.online · 2 pts · 139d
https://www.energyprices.eu/electricity/belgium
Prices are going negatif ,
homes@piefed.world · 17 pts · 139d
Trump AdministrationThe American Taxpayer will pay...bagsy@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 139d
total piece of shit. just an unlimited amount of disgusting bullshit from this creature.
kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 139d
Fuck Off you backwards assholes.
anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 139d
Good idea - especially during an energy crises he’s causing.
/s.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 139d
This screws over the north east with less energy. Trump/GOP likes to cancel their projects then point that them for mismanagement. North east has to import energy, and boats from TX/LA count as imports. With Jones act shipping rates.
stumu415@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 139d
Hahaha. The US is so fucking imbecile. Hahaha. OMG. I can't breathe..
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 139d
The child rapist wants us to stop using renewables, everyone.
He wants that.
Go buy whatever you want now. It's a capitalist society, and we have the buying power. Solar and wind can displace the energy companies on a local level for low cost.
Seriously. You can do it for less than 3 grand.
santa@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 139d
It’s a race to Earth’s headstone…
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 0 pts · 139d
I have an idea: why don't we all come up with the money to build a huge glass dome to put over the US so they fuck themselves and leave the rest of us alone? When their air becomes breathable again (say, in 100 years from now), we can remove it and let them be part of the planet again... if they are not a wasteland by then.
null@lemmy.org · 0 pts · 139d
Make it make sense.
mech@feddit.org · 4 pts · 139d
It makes perfect logical sense. The money comes from the tax payer and goes into the pockets of Trumps buddies.