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U.S President administration cites national security in stalling 165 wind farms | Onshore wind development in the United States is being brought to a standstill.
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Seems like the super genius wealthy investor would understand the importance of diversifying your assets. Guess not :shrug:
We MUST Ensure that our Energy is RUN and Protected by US! Under control of ENEMY Countries!
-National Security Republicans!
Gotta protect the oil and coal companies who continue to write me those checks. – the orange Cheeto
Fuck this guy, he is singlehandedly trying to stop energy independence in the U.S.
Oh wait, that’s not what this is about. The orange bafoon is mad he can’t control the global supply of oil anymore if renewable energy is the dominant energy source.
He got half a billion dollars from the oil industry. It was a good investment for them. Sure, it fucked over farmers, truckers and working class people but rich people got to get a lot richer and that’s the most important thing.
I mean, he’s right to panic about the growth of cheap renewable energy as a threat to national security. The shrinking global demand for oil being sold in US dollars will decimate the ability of the US to impose economic sanctions on countries it doesn’t like. That will directly lead to less national security.
The problem is that while he can frustrate domestic demand to build this stuff, he can’t stop it globally, and building clean energy will continue exponentially. The oil decline is unstoppable, so the primary result of these actions will be to make the US further behind the energy future and economically disadvantaged on top of the petrodollar decline.
Ironically, starting a war with Iran seems to be quickening the global pace of EV sales and renewable energy adoption.
The shrinking global demand for oil being sold in US dollars will decimate the ability of the US to impose economic sanctions on countries it doesn’t like. That will directly lead to less national security.
Isn’t messing with other countries what leads to more threats to the US, aka less security?
The greatest threat to national security doesn’t come from the outside, it’s the people inside that aren’t onboard with the regime’s plans. The idea of threats from abroad results in the erosion of liberty at home under the guise of homeland security. We’re the ones they’re securing their homeland from.
It’s a very complicated picture in the details and you’re not wrong. I’m just pointing out that while invoking “national security” as a reason to deny windmills (that he openly hates even when not indebted to Big Oil’s $1B political contributions) sounds ludicrous at first, there is undoubtedly some twisted logic to the claim.
Trump’s recipe is to weaken the US globally. Meanwhile every other country in the world is building renewables as quickly as possible. The petro dollar is fucked, trump is a pedophile and a fucking idiot. We’re losing a race we could easily dominate because half of the US to too fucking dumb to tie their shoes.
He’s not an idiot, his family is making bank. When everything’s fucked they can just leave.
Absolutely evil, but they are meeting their objectives. It’s the true American way: “I got mine, fuck you”
If you read “national security” as a reason anywhere, you can read that as “bullshit”. True for any administration.
Mwagood luck USA if they start having a Coal/Gas crisis.
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He literally just doesn’t like seeing them from his golf courses. That’s it, that’s the entire reason.
And I still don’t get the hate. Personally I think they look neat. Beats a big ugly building, and one potentially spewing smoke.
People hate change. Those smokestacks were there so he long ago learned to ignore them.
Which is so insane to me because wind turbines have been around for as long as I can remember. Yet some people treat them as a new threat. They‘re delulu.
So, you’re telling us we should paint them gold and stick his orange fuckface on them to get them approved?
“National Security” has been used to:
Hey new, its a really really nice ballroom, or something.
We’re well aware of his decor preferences…
But where did all that private funding go now that they will use tax dollars after all? Oh I am sure humble as the president is he denied all of those hefty donations after all to not be biased. Surely he didn‘t pocket all of that himself like a 5th grader reaching for the cookie jar when they think nobody is looking.
Republicans whining about their energy bills:
Everyone else:
Misusing national security should be grounds for imprisonment. Just add it to his long list of felonies.
Ah yes, because making us more susceptible to fluctuations in the global energy market increases our security…brilliant.
the title is correct is you consider the u.s. president the national security treat
I hope the next president authorizes surrounding mar-a-lago with wind generators. Make them extra loud.
So it is in the best interest of our national security to be more dependent on oil, as recently demonstrated?
We need to stop the energy crisis by making less energy.
Yeah the value of the oil we use for our energy is dependent on foreign adversaries, but the real national security issue is the fucking wind turbine chilling on our own coastline…
Oh and the whales. Republicans suddenly care about whales. Well… Ok… not those whales that are protected because they’re about to go extinct. We removed the protection for those whales so we could drill for oil there…. But the ones near the wind turbines, those whales we really care about!
Republican = GOP = Gas and Oil Party. Everything they do can be traced to trying to benefit Oil and Gas companies.
Windmills are a national security threat? How?
Trump thinks its going to kill the government spy drones(birds)
“The nation” here defined as Israel and their assets, ie the American politicians they blackmail.
Because we have to import most of our wind from China? I mean, where does wind come from, really?
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Using “security” as an excuse to funnel money towards the Oil & Gas industry instead of Renewable Energy. That’s what’s happening here. While real security means diversifying into all forms of energy, not stalling any. (more O&G is actually bad for security when you consider climate damage).
Oh it is not just about the climate. It is estimated that 5 million people die a year from lead in gasoline alone. The amount of pollution, cancer, and death O&G causes are far beyond most people’s comprehension.
Right, but I kind of specialize in climate myself.
He forgot he’s Don Trump not Don Quixote
Don’t disrespect Don Quixote that way.
This is new, and somehow related to onshore wind farms. Courts have issued rulings that DoD BS about radar interference was BS related to offshore windfarms, (previously OK’d by DOD for not creating interference) essentially allowing them to resume. This would be even more BS, with no possible chance of passing court review, because DoD can’t make radar BS claim.
I fewl like it’s a national security risk to not have energy independence from fossil fuels as a consumable. My gas price says so. And the coming food and plastics shortages that are on the way as well.
If it gets us to kick fossil fuels, that’d be great imo. Remove the oil subsidies! Ya’ll wanted to cut government spending, right?
Isn’t that president the biggest threat to national security? Aside from from being a criminal and the most named person in the Epstein files.
I suppose that’s why you need to invade all those oil producing nations, right? Makes sense.
How very Don Quixote.
Just shut off all the solar and turbines - er.. “windmills”, until he acknowledges the problem he’s caused.
Shooting ourselves in the foot to try to get the guy who notoriously will not admit to mistakes to admit his mistake is a bold suggestion…
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