I wonder how much money the Congress critters who are tweeting about this have invested and are making off the projects, like
From the link
The Trump administration on Monday said it would pause leases for five wind farms under construction off the East Coast, essentially gutting the country’s nascent offshore wind industry in a sharp escalation of President Trump’s crusade against the renewable energy source.
The decision injected uncertainty into $25 billion worth of projects that were collectively expected to power more than 2.5 million homes and businesses across the Eastern United States, according to Turn Forward, an offshore wind advocacy group. The five wind farms were projected together to create about 10,000 jobs.
It left intact just two operational wind farms in U.S. coastal waters — one small project off Rhode Island that has been complete since 2016 and a larger project off New York that has been fully operational since 2023.
The five wind farms targeted on Monday had all obtained leases from the Biden administration. But citing unspecified national security concerns, the Trump administration said it would freeze those leases, effectively blocking construction or operations and jeopardizing billions of dollars that have already been invested.
I love the video of the turbines, which were not turning, meaning they provide no power.
Anyhow, every single one of these projects has lots people in those areas who were dead set against the projects, from fisherman to people who live there to people who are going to have to deal with the unreliable, undependable, and more expensive electricity. Turbines which can easily be damaged by enemies of the U.S. They don’t even have to totally destroy them to disable them. Seems like a weak excuse using “national security,”, though, if I’m being honest. Really, they should just let the projects go forward, and without federal money, let the residents in these Dem voting states deal with the fallout.
How can Big Donnie (and trump_inc get their “taste”) of these billions? That’s Don’s concern.
“Big Donnie” will probably be dead in not too many more years; he’s 79 years old, obese, and eats junk food. Perhaps the Don of the Trump family will pass his title on to the next generation, and will be creating a new oil “Barron.”
Or, perhaps, we’ll use the seized Venezuelan tankers to partially replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that the dummkopf from Delaware used to try to bring down fuel prices and help the crackpot from California on the election. Venezuelan oil isn’t the best: it’s very ‘heavy’ and more difficult to refine, but in the end, oil is oil.
In case I hadn’t mentioned it previously, I read Mario Puzo’s The Godfather a couple of weeks ago.
Literacy is good.
What we really need to defend these offshore windmills is more BATTLESHIPS
BATTLESHIPS! Are the crucial missing key to the defense of my great country.
Natural gas pipelines do not even need any BATTLESHIPS pipelines are made of STEEL
I love the video of the turbines, which were not turning, meaning they provide no power.
They were never intended to provide power. Their only purpose is to transfer money from the federal treasury to a host of companies with no-bid contracts to people with connections to Democrats. Trump is shutting off the Democratic party looting of the treasury, the money laundering and the kickbacks. Democrats hate that. Almost as if they had a personal financial interest in the outcome.
… But citing unspecified national security concerns…
On the radio, they were quite specified. The towers with large spinning masses, block the radar signatures of whatever might be behind them. Enemy fleets would sail right up to the coast undetected. Enemy missile launches would not be detected until well within engagement ranges of friendly ships and shore installations, giving defensive weapons very little time to effectively respond.
Speaking on just my own behalf, shutting off wasteful spending is reason enough. Oil, natural gas and coal power plants never needed massive federal funding to get built. Power companies borrowed money and paid back the loans with profits from selling electricity.
There are many many types of radar Most are no longer not limited to line of sight. Things have changed. This is not WW2
OMG
There was an enemy fleet sneaking up behind a windmill!!
Really?;
You think that could happen? Are you delusional?
Read what I wrote, not what the voices in your head told you I wrote. Reading comprehension is good.
You’re a typist, not a writer. Reading your pontifications is not pleasant.
You typed: “Enemy fleets would sail right up to the coast undetected.”
Because of the windmills, right? That deserves mockery.
Then you typed: “Oil, natural gas and coal power plants never needed massive federal funding to get built.”
You’re clearly not a professor of economics!! Coal, oil and natural gas industries do NOT pay for the damages resulting from their pollutants. Cancers, pulmonary diseases, water and air pollution and, of course, global warming remediation. That’s worth trillions of US dollars! The people have and will pay and the execs and investors will make billions of US dollars! So, in a sense they are subsidized, aren’t they. The roads, highways, bridges, sea walls and airports are subsidies, too!! Floods and hurricanes and droughts, oh my!! FEMA is a subsidy.
What saves the coal, oil and gas industries is that their output – electricity – is important!!
Read what I wrote, not what the voices in your head told you I wrote. Reading comprehension is good.
Rimjob hasn’t the slightest acquaintance with notion of reading comprehension.
His lack of writing skills exhibit the same.
Most onshore wind turbines are in red states.
Wind power provides 12% of all electricity generated in the USA with that going up to 24% 2026.
And coal falling to 15%. Within 3 years wind will equal all coal fired electricity The average age of a coal plant being 50+ years. They are dinosaurs and going extinct very very inefficient. Renewables keep getting cheaper. Who knows what the cost of fossil fuels will be in 20 years or even if they will still be legal?
Times change faster than people do(can) the clock in fact speeds up for old people.
The DOE guarantees loans for many many different energy projects including both generation and transmission
Bush signed off on 41 billion in guaranteed(subsidies)
The 12% figure mentioned by johnnie boy in his statement might refer to wind’s share of total generating capacity in 2023, not actual generation.
Actual electricity generation can vary based on weather conditions (e.g., weaker winds in 2023 caused a slight dip in production despite increased capacity).
Now who is delusional?
“I wonder how much money the Congress critters who are tweeting about this have invested and are making off the projects”
My goodness. How else do you expect them to grow a $50M portfolio without a real job?
It’s now labeled “Conservation Activism”.
Check out the wife of Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Sandra.
https://commstrader.com/politics/meet-sandra-whitehouse-whose-husbands-votes-funneled-millions-into-ngo-that-pays-her/
TrumpInc has added $2-3 BILLION to their portfolio this year alone, with Donnie not having a real job!!
Add a few hundred million for the QATARi luxury plane!
It comes down to basic math. Your typical coal/gas/nuke plant produces 1000 MW actual power continuously. A windmill 3.5 MW. So you’re gonna need 300 windmills to replace 1 old school plant. And that’s under ideal conditions. Output is proportional to the cube of the wind speed. Drop from the rated 20 mph wind to 10 and you need eight times as many mills spinning.
The whole wind power thing is a taxpayer ripoff by some and virtue signalling by others.
No sense wasting good money on bad ideas. If clueless, gullible fools wanna waste their own money on windmills, let them. Windmills are just another foolish democrat idea they expect others to pay for.