The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US.
The current administration has thrown up roadblocks at every turn for offshore wind projects; a type of energy that President Donald Trump has personally reviled for years. After trying and failing to block construction on more mature projects, this announcement is the first sign of a new strategy: The federal government is paying to stop wind farms before they begin.
So glad that “power of the purse” and those “checks and balances” are working as designed.
If the headline made it sound bad, it’s worse:
Instead, TotalEnergies will now spend the money on the development of a new liquified natural gas plant in Texas that will help export US LNG overseas to Europe, CEO Patrick Pouyanné said in a statement. The money will also go towards the company’s development of oil drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico and shale oil projects elsewhere in the US.
As if it’s even worth pointing out the atom-thin silver lining: at least they called the Gulf of Mexico by its actual real name
Not only has the company been paid off, it seems ol’ Pat got himself a nice, tidy bag o’ cash on the side.
I mean, I would have not built wind farms for $950 million. I’m right here
Step 1: Get wind farm contract during Democratic Presidential term.
Step 2: Do nothing until a Republican becomes president
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Get paid one billion dollars.
Anything and everything but actually making life better for people in this country.
What kind of complete idiots voted for these corrupt assholes? How stupid do you have to be? These are people who should be wearing helmets just to get through the day unscathed, but instead they’re carrying guns.
I like to think even the idiots who voted for Trump didn’t want half of what he’s doing.
yet they would vote for him again. its vibe democracy.
Because they have been brainwashed to the point where the alternative feels worse than dying to them.
Where are the MAGAts who whinge about not wanting their taxes to go to x, y, z? Silly question, really. They’ll support anything the Orange Shit Dildo spends their taxes on, but not anything Democratic Presidents spend their taxes on.
I am so tired.
ArT oF ThE DeAl
Wow.
Corruption to the core
At this point, we all deserve it for not fighting back.
what am i supposed to do, take him out myself???
General strike.
I thought the US was having an energy emergency
We’re kind of not at all having an energy emergency, actually. Most states have pretty diverse energy generation portfolios, so electricity costs are not as responsive to global oil prices as e.g. gasoline for cars. The reality is there’s already tons of wind and solar online, and that’s going to continue even if Trump tries to stop projects on federally controlled land
Art of the deal
So they bribed an oil company into investing in oil instead of renewables. Usually that’s the other way
But this guy did ghost write the art of the deal…
