Comment on Trump pledges to scrap offshore wind projects on ‘day one’ of presidency

Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• natecox@programming.dev ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  He’s begging for money from big oil, maybe possibly potentially related to this particular hot take.

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• neoman4426@fedia.io ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For Trump specifically I think it's personal in this case, I remember a planned one from Scotland that he claimed would ruin the view from one of his clubs there, so might be as revenge against the concept for that

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• henfredemars@infosec.pub ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I know people who are strongly against wind renewables. Why? Uhh… because they kill birds. And whales! And they uhh, don’t break down, or something. So they’re not perfect, and we should buy more oil.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’s probably because they’re adhering to their in-group’s beliefs. The in-group (conservatives) doesn’t like renewables, so they don’t. When pressed for why, they don’t really have a good answer, so they’ll desperately grasp for anything that’s remotely plausible.

    We’re all susceptible to this, and it probably had advantages for ancient humans.

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  • DMBFFF@kbin.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    infrasonics, apparently.

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• 800XL@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fossil fuel companies don’t like renewables for 2 main reasons:

  • They haven’t successfully lobbied for enough anti-competitive fees to be placed on them yet that makes it too cost-prohibitive to support
  • They haven’t successfully attained a monopoly over production by purchasing the leaders in the industry so that they still receive all the profits

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• laughterlaughter@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Who actually has anything against renewables besides fossil fuel companies?

  There’s your answer.

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• prole@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Super rich assholes don’t want to have to see them when they visit one of their several beach houses every year or two.

  I’m not even kidding.

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  • P1nkman@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We’re having the same issues in Denmark. Nearly everyone wants solar panels and wind turbines, but there’s so much NIMBY that it’s stopping nearly every project… Fucking idiots.

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