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.

The current administration has thrown up roadblocks at every turn for offshore wind projects; a type of energy that President Donald Trump has personally reviled for years. After trying and failing to block construction on more mature projects, this announcement is the first sign of a new strategy: The federal government is paying to stop wind farms before they begin.

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[–] 79 points 6 months ago

So glad that “power of the purse” and those “checks and balances” are working as designed.

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  • [–] 70 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    If the headline made it sound bad, it's worse:

    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. The money will also go towards the company’s development of oil drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico and shale oil projects elsewhere in the US.

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  • [–] 46 points 6 months ago

    I mean, I would have not built wind farms for $950 million. I'm right here

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  • [–] 41 points 6 months ago

    Step 1: Get wind farm contract during Democratic Presidential term.

    Step 2: Do nothing until a Republican becomes president

    Step 3: ????

    Step 4: Get paid one billion dollars.

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  • [–] 28 points 6 months ago

    Anything and everything but actually making life better for people in this country.

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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    What kind of complete idiots voted for these corrupt assholes? How stupid do you have to be? These are people who should be wearing helmets just to get through the day unscathed, but instead they’re carrying guns.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (2 children)

    I like to think even the idiots who voted for Trump didn't want half of what he's doing.

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  • I am so tired.

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  • [–] 16 points 6 months ago

    Where are the MAGAts who whinge about not wanting their taxes to go to x, y, z? Silly question, really. They'll support anything the Orange Shit Dildo spends their taxes on, but not anything Democratic Presidents spend their taxes on.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago

    ArT oF ThE DeAl

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    Corruption to the core

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (8 children)

    At this point, we all deserve it for not fighting back.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    what am i supposed to do, take him out myself???

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    That is one possibility, staging meaningful protests are another, less violent variant. At this point all USA citizen are complacent. After WW2 the only good Germans were those in the resistance.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    protests never seem to work. contacting my representatives doesn’t seem to work either. i don’t think peace is the way to get change anymore unfortunately, but it’s a big ask to want someone to take a violent action that will most likely lead to jail time.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Protests in the way they are currently done in the USA are meaningless, that's why I added meaningful in front of it. If the protest is scheduled to end after 6 hours and happens every few weeks, why should the government care?

    And don't come with the "we are economically scared and don't have enough funds for that" bullshit. Do you think the people protesting the socialist governments at the end of the 80s under fear of being taken prisoner had a big secure funding or did they protest because they were fed up with their situation and protested as long as necessary to bring down their dictators?

    Do you think the people protesting the islamist governments in the Arab Spring under fear of being taken prisoner had a big secure funding or did they protest because they were fed up with their situation and protested as long as necessary to bring down their dictators?

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Best I could do was emigrate and deprive the regime of our taxes. My family and my wife's were Americans for less than two generations anyway, to fuckery with the empire.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    Congratulations on getting out! I do not envy you for having to make that decision. But not everybody has the means for emigration though. So hopefully they can stop that madness sooner than later.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    So they bribed an oil company into investing in oil instead of renewables. Usually that's the other way

    But this guy did ghost write the art of the deal...

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago

    Art of the deal

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I thought the US was having an energy emergency

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  • [–] 12 points 6 months ago

    We're kind of not at all having an energy emergency, actually. Most states have pretty diverse energy generation portfolios, so electricity costs are not as responsive to global oil prices as e.g. gasoline for cars. The reality is there's already tons of wind and solar online, and that's going to continue even if Trump tries to stop projects on federally controlled land

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    Of course he will. He's on a roll... he's got a 100% streak going presently - he's on track to 100% destroy America by our "250th birthday".

    It makes putin wet in the crotch area just thinking about it... his lifelong goal of destroying America and U.S. democracy is within his grasp.

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