We’re dealing with a President that IS ONLY hunting money and ego…..
This while being upfront about being against RENEWABLE fuels….
Which IS Not Helping American’s
President Donald Trump has taken jabs at offshore wind all year. On Monday, he threw a haymaker that threatens to knock the U.S. industry to the mat.
The president’s decision to pause construction of five offshore wind projectscapable of powering nearly 2.7 million homes along the East Coast marked an escalation of a yearlong effort to shut down the industry, jolting the political debate surrounding rising electricity prices.
In New England, the regional grid operator warned the stoppage could send power prices soaring and threaten the reliability of its six-state electric system. In Virginia, the utility building the country’s largest coastal wind project said the pause hinders its ability to keep up with rising electricity consumption from data centers. And on Capitol Hill, the order threatened to stymie a long-debated bipartisan energy permitting bill winding its way through Congress. Senate Democrats said Monday they were halting negotiations over the bill in response to the stoppage.
Rising electricity prices have emerged as a growing political problem for Trump’s party and as a campaign theme for Democrats hoping to claw back control of Congress next year. And Trump’s newest move jeopardizes major new power sources that were already on their way to completion.
“It is coming at a time when the main topic is affordability, affordability. This is running contrary to that in my opinion,” said Tim Ennis, a power market analyst at GridStatus, a website that tracks wholesale electricity markets. “If you want to make the argument that these projects are too expensive and we shouldn’t build more, that’s one thing. But these projects are in the water.”
Monday’s action also complicates life for Democratic New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, who personally lobbied Trump in May to save one of the five wind projects in question.
Trump campaigned on a pledge to stop offshore wind development for his second term and immediately set about fulfilling the promise with a Day 1 executive order calling for a review of offshore wind permits. Federal agencies have since proposed pulling permits for projects yet to start construction, launched national security investigations into imported turbine components and even tried unsuccessfully to block two projects under construction.
Monday’s order goes beyond that. The Interior Department said it was issuing an immediate pause to the five projects, citing classified reports from the Department of Defense on wind turbines’ impact to military radar….
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“President Trump has been clear: wind energy is the scam of the century,” said Taylor Rogers, a White House spokesperson, repeating a favorite administration talking point. “For years, Americans have been forced to pay billions more for the least reliable sources of energy.”
The move came as the five projects continue to advance….
image…REUTERS/Tom Little/File Photo
Oh Trump will tell those Republican clowns to shut the Hell up and they will.
Jack?
I read that up to Fifty present members of Congress gonna quit
Something ain’t Right….
Democrats ARE gonna use the House to leverage the money against Trumps actions come 2027….
Bet on this
Your “ faith” in the Republican Party is touching.
You keep telling us how they are going to reign Trump in and they keep jumping when he snarls at them.
While james has been mostly offbase in that regard for a long time, we have to take notice of what happened in Indiana a couple of weeks ago. Before that was his failure to keep Republicans in Congress in line over the Epstein files.
His control may be getting weaker, though certainly nowhere weak enough.