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Pentagon Delays Put 150 Wind Projects on Ice as Trump Targets Wind Power

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16 pointsgiwook5 comments

Projects on private land, by private capital. 30gwh / 9 million homes of energy. In an energy cost crisis (nevermind the climate crisis).

Can you possibly dream of a stupider, more self destructive, more anti-capitalist, more anti-american policy? Its truly indefensible.

Does anyone know why Trump hates wind power so much? Why does he continue to support and subsidize coal so heavily?

Supposedly this stems from a petty lawsuit he filed to stop a wind project being built off the coast of one of his golf courses in the UK [1]. His solid scientific argument against them was "they are ugly." He lost that case and is quite bitter about it. For sure, he will go down in history as the bestest president ever, yuge success in all things he does, and liberator of the hormuz.

> Why does he continue to support and subsidize coal so heavily?

Money.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_International_Golf_Club_...

Right wing media turned against wind across the globe in that same 2006-2012 time period.

It basically got good enough to be a threat.

It wasn't driven by grass roots, Republican leaning voters stayed very positive on wind and solar up until Trump ran and it's been sliding downhill since then, but steady for Democratic leaning voters. But the WSJ was putting out op-ed attacking it as part of their climate change denial at that time. Obama ran on supporting it in 2007.

I'd say "votes" rather than "money". A fair bit of coal comes from states that can be tipped by coal mining interests, including West Virginia, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. Some of these were formerly Democratic strongholds, when coal-mining unions were powerful, but with the demise of unions these areas have become solidly Republican -- so long as Republicans continue to love coal.

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