So hold on, doesn't this mean that companies can just threaten to build wind turbines and get a bunch of bribes? Any sensible businessman would immediately spin up 500 companies to do this as fast as possible.
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Phew! Good! This WAR has Taught me the LAST thing I want my Tax Dollars going towards is Energy that our Enemies DONT Control!
-Republicans!
Usas economy relies on other countries use of oil.
USA is going to collapse once the world wakes up to the fact it's being played out like a Mafia controlled neighborhood.
They rely on other countries using the Petrodollar, not buying oil. Once other countries move to another currency America will go bankrupt, and that isn't speculation, it's very much reality. America is doing everything to stop this.
It won't work though, the talk have already started happening. Americans better get used to the a lower standard is living because it's going to be impossible to increase moving standards under the current debt.
The petrodollar was slowly dying already and the iran war is the final nail in the coffin
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Hey, if we all club together we could get through the first few stages of getting our own windfarm approved and then Trump could pay us a billion to cancel and we all walk away with a share.
Who's in?
And then build it anyways.
Well yea, that's what we need the billion for. It's the AI startup model.
wait that's it you're a genius. Al controlled wind farm. we'll use Al to turn the farm to face the right direction so it gets the most out of the wind (al is a loose hing at the top of the windmill don't tell anyone. or we hire a guy named AL. i dunno)
there's no precise definition of AI, it can just be an arduino taking the input from a couple sensors to decide where the turbine should point.
see that's way more complicated than just hiring a bunch of folk
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I feel like in that case laws would suddenly exist for billionaires again, for just that case. "You defrauded the government!!"
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Count me in
This is beyond stupidity.
China will be decades ahead in energy with these moronic decisions and eventually that’s also proportional to AI scalability.
The more America becomes the villain, the more it is causing other countries to realign to the Middle Kingdom.
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I have an idea... Take the money... And then do it anyway. That's what he did countless times in his life
The terms are that the trump admin will give them the Money only if/when that french company builds a gigaproject on fossil fuels. And it's 99.9% sure that he will change his taco mind on that when it's time to open the wallet
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it's about the offshore view from his golf course. self-serving scumbag. needs oil platforms
I can't imagine thinking wind turbines are ugly. There's something wrong with conservative brains
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What's hilarious about all this is if you actually go there and look out to see you can barely even see the wind turbines.
As a huge metal fan I love this but as a wind power fan I regret to inform you those aren't made of metal, they're composite, metal is weigh too heavy and expensive.
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.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/23/climate/trump-totalenergies-offshore-wind-cancellation
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I would like to throw my hat in the ring and say that I will not build a wind farm for a mere $500M
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Again the ever quixotic Don tilts at windmills! Onward, Rocinante!
The Interior Department hailed the “innovative agreement” with the French energy giant and said, “the American people will no longer pay for ideological subsidies that benefited only the unreliable and costly offshore wind industry.″
I want these ghouls to not be alive anymore man
Shoot... I would have not built a wind farm for only a million!
You're killing the market with your undercutting. If we're going to be Not Building Oligarchs, we have to rig the government procurement process. Nobody can go under $750 million.
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Take the money and use it to fund renewables anyways. Trump loves breaching terms of contracts, I'm sure he'd be cool with it.
From the guy that promised to lower the price of everything.
For himself.
Won't anyone think about the oil?
Also, won't anyone think about the fact that Trump literally makes energy policy based on the fact that he thinks wind turbines are ugly?
He really is still salty Scotland built some and spoiled the view off his golf course.
He heard it called a wind farm and thinks they produce wind there.
You might be onto something. Isn't wind a pretty big annoyance for golfers ? And we're talking about the guy who watched a solar eclipse with his bare eyes here.
like who cares? let USA die if they want, not a problem for the rest of the world. When you start a war, don't expect others to help you.
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Hey I'm not going to build windmills either, where the fuck is my check?
Paying not to build something feels like the most expensive way to do nothing.
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They are not really getting paid, they are getting the money back they paid for windfarm permits and in exchange they have to invest the money in oil and gas in the US.
WHY IS THIS LEGAL?!
European here, I am fine with that.
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