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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/17/trump-wind-power-oil-executives/At a fundraising dinner, Donald Trump doubles down on promises to derail a key form of clean energy that competes with fossil fuels
By Maxine Joselow and Josh Dawsey
April 17, 2024 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
Former president Donald Trump repeatedly ranted about wind power during a fundraising dinner with oil and gas industry executives last week, falsely claiming that the renewable-energy source is unreliable, unattractive and bad for the environment.
I hate wind, Trump told the executives over a meal of chopped steak at his Mar-a-Lago Club and resort in Florida, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.
Trumps comments reveal how he is wooing potential donors with his long-standing hostility to wind farms and pledges to halt this form of renewable energy if he returns to office. His stance poses a potential threat to one of the linchpins of Americas clean energy transition, according to more than a dozen Trump allies, energy experts and offshore wind industry officials.
Even if President Biden were to win reelection, experts say, opponents of offshore wind will remain emboldened by Trumps stance and well positioned to challenge a new generation of projects in federal waters.
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Walleye
(31,030 posts)hatrack
(59,587 posts)Botany
(70,525 posts)Even though Apple makes the phones but it is carriers such as Verizon that do 5G. And you expect Trump to
understand that we burn coal & gas, have nuclear, hydroelectric dams, wind turbines & solar to make electricity?
Layzeebeaver
(1,625 posts)😉
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,071 posts)Chemical warfare Trump style.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)global1
(25,253 posts)"I will break wind."
They say this was one of those times he actually told the truth.
Then he passed gas.
(sarcasm)
Bo Zarts
(25,399 posts)Chopped steak!? Classy joint. That should really impress those oil men.
Midnight Writer
(21,770 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,014 posts)tanyev
(42,580 posts)sop
(10,208 posts)(BBC, 2019) "Donald Trump's Aberdeenshire golf resort must pay the Scottish government's legal costs following a court battle over a major North Sea wind power development...Mr Trump battled unsuccessfully in the courts to halt the project before he became US president...A total of 11 turbines make up the development off Aberdeen...Judges have now ruled Trump International Golf Club Scotland Ltd should pay the legal bills incurred....Mr Trump had argued the development would spoil the view from his golf course at Menie."
NJCher
(35,691 posts)When you cannot accept change and have to battle everything in a court of law.
Isnt this just one of lifes lessons? To learn to deal with whatever is lobbed your way?
He has this basic insistence that the world should be constructed according to his desires. It doesnt matter one bit if its for the common good.
To a large extent, we can make our own world by how we think of it and react to it. This means he has never known a moment of peace.
3Hotdogs
(12,394 posts)Vegetarianism will be declared a religion that is hostile to the state. That'll be part of his first State of the Onion speech.
Harker
(14,027 posts)He will have his retribution.
Kid Berwyn
(14,921 posts)It must be true as people around SF have reported he smells like a mixture of cheeseburgers and flop sweat.
Hugin
(33,167 posts)But, I like yours better.
AllaN01Bear
(18,275 posts)NameAlreadyTaken
(978 posts)NameAlreadyTaken
(978 posts)in renewable sources instead of fighting them? Oil and gas are going to run out someday, then where will they be?
TexasBushwhacker
(20,205 posts)Why invest in greener energy sources when it won't produce as much profit NOW?
Martin Eden
(12,872 posts)When Smelvis speaks
The atmosphere reeks
SWBTATTReg
(22,144 posts)absolutely no say in how our energy is generated in MO, you moron.
Of course he hates wind. It messes up his carefully crafted hairdo!
Irish_Dem
(47,166 posts)Nothing at all.
Their addiction to money and power is all that matters.
C_U_L8R
(45,005 posts)I never knew an anal polyp could sprout legs and whine so much.
Delmette2.0
(4,168 posts)got along before they had the Rural Co-op 1930's
Each farm had their windmill that generated electricity and stored it in batteries. They had lights for the evening and early morning and hoped the wind blew the next day. It was almost always windy on the Rocky Mountain front.
Wind power is nothing new, just better batteries.