Phew! Good! This WAR has Taught me the LAST thing I want my Tax Dollars going towards is Energy that our Enemies DONT Control!
-Republicans!
The Art of the Deal
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BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 1 day ago
IAmYouButYouDontKnowYet@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Usas economy relies on other countries use of oil.
USA is going to collapse once the world wakes up to fact it’s played out like a Mafia neighborhood.
krisevol@lemmus.org 1 day ago
They rely on other countries using the Petrodollar, not buying oil. Once other countries move to another currency America will go bankrupt, and that isn’t speculation, it’s very much reality. America is doing everything to stop this.
It won’t work though, the talk have already started happening. Americans better get used to the a lower standard is living because it’s going to be impossible to increase moving standards under the current debt.
Objection@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
Bold of you to assume they don’t see France as an enemy.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
I would like to throw my hat in the ring and say that I will not build a wind farm for a mere $500M
Denjin@feddit.uk 1 day ago
Hey, if we all club together we could get through the first few stages of getting our own windfarm approved and then Trump could pay us a billion to cancel and we all walk away with a share.
Who’s in?
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
And then build it anyways.
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Well yea, that’s what we need the billion for.
howrar@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Bring the money to Canada and build it here!
TrickDacy@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I feel like in that case laws would suddenly exist for billionaires again, for just that case. “You defrauded the government!!”
prettybunnys@piefed.social 1 day ago
… Hookers and Blackjack?
vivalapivo@lemmy.today 1 day ago
Count me in
m3t00@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
echodot@feddit.uk 10 hours ago
What’s hilarious about all this is if you actually go there and look out to see you can barely even see the wind turbines.
Lagviper@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
This is beyond stupidity.
China will be decades ahead in energy with these moronic decisions and eventually that’s also proportional to AI scalability.
lechekaflan@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The more America becomes the villain, the more it is causing other countries to realign to the Middle Kingdom.
snoons@lemmy.ca 2 hours ago
I never realised how tiny Winnie the Pooh’s hands are until now.
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
China has the mandate of heaven
Quexotic@infosec.pub 14 hours ago
This is simply treason.
m3t00@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
fortunately everything isn’t run by federal decree. as much as they wish. setbacks are not permanent but when the factory down the street shuts down, they lose support.
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 19 hours ago
I have an idea… Take the money… And then do it anyway. That’s what he did countless times in his life
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The terms are that the trump admin will give them the Money only if/when that french company builds a gigaproject on fossil fuels. And it’s 99.9% sure that he will change his taco mind on that when it’s time to open the wallet
areakode@riskeratspizza.com 1 day ago
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Wait, was Tony a pedo?
Cossty@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Just a criminal, racist, homophobe, murderer, misogynist. And I don’t doubt that his character could off-camera “fuck” some 17 year olds. So, pretty close to Trump on all accounts minus the incoherent ramblings.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
I think that was referring to Trump exclusively. I do not remember Tony being a pedo, nor do I know of any accusations towards James Gandolfini himself
xia@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Shoot… I would have not built a wind farm for only a million!
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
You’re killing the market with your undercutting. If we’re going to be Not Building Oligarchs, we have to implement price fixing. Nobody can go under $750 million.
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
American farmers are paid to not grow crops to keep crop prices high lol
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Let’s not build one for $1B and put it toward actual infrastructure, covering states in the order they joined the union.
brown567@sh.itjust.works 20 hours ago
Again the ever quixotic Don tilts at windmills! Onward, Rocinante!
merdaverse@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Apparently, this has been going on for a while! archive.is/9BNsM
slaacaa@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Just to be clear, this money was already spent by the previous administration on federal leases that were going to be used to build these offshore farms. The government will now be reimbursing the company the money it spent on those leases. Not quite just paying the company to not do something like the headline makes it seem. But that’s now $1 billion that could certainly be put to better use elsewhere that will be wasted paying this company back.
It’s also embarrassingly short sided for a myriad of reasons but that doesn’t matter anymore. We’re great again!
Kolanaki@pawb.social 13 hours ago
He heard it called a wind farm and thinks they produce wind there.
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 1 day ago
STOP GIVING AWAY OUR MONEY, FUCKO
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 22 hours ago
Stop paying taxes, fucking mark.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 45 minutes ago
I will gladly update my W-4 to stop withholding federal taxes as soon as you manage to convince everyone else in Kansas to do the same
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Yeah, cause drawing a giant federal target on my back during the most oppressive, likely-to-murder-Americans regime in our history is a good idea.
Got any other Shark Tank worthy gems for us?
WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 19 hours ago
From the guy that promised to lower the price of everything.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
For himself.
Blackmist@feddit.uk 19 hours ago
He really is still salty Scotland built some and spoiled the view off his golf course.
Jaimesmith@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Paying not to build something feels like the most expensive way to do nothing.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 hour ago
It’s to build fossil fuel plants instead.
BoJackHorseman@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
Tell that to American farmers who are paid to not farm
Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Won’t anyone think about the oil?
wjrii@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Also, won’t anyone think about the fact that Trump literally makes energy policy based on the fact that he thinks wind turbines are ugly?
bearboiblake@pawb.social 1 day ago
Take the money and use it to fund renewables anyways. Trump loves breaching terms of contracts, I’m sure he’d be cool with it.
purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 17 hours ago
WHY IS THIS LEGAL?!
Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Hey I’m not going to build windmills either, where the fuck is my check?
Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They are not really getting paid, they are getting the money back they paid for windfarm permits and in exchange they have to invest the money in oil and gas in the US.
Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Pay them 1 billion, they pay someone else 900 million to do it instead. +100 million profits
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Now the French will learn that Trump never pays his bills, the check is in the mail so to speak
Oh, it’s not his money? I got nothing
roserose56@lemmy.zip 19 hours ago
Live your myth in USA! USA! USA! USA! Let’s go Trump! Trump! Mid terms!!
RedRibbonArmy@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
I guess it was being built with federal money or in federal land/sea? The states can still do their own thing and they should.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au 22 hours ago
If you pay american taxes you are guilty.
Dont ruin literally everything. Tell irs to fuck itself.
beerclue@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is this notheonion?
Avicenna@programming.dev 15 hours ago
Is this the fine US is paying to UAE for fucking up in the middle east
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 50 minutes ago
I want these ghouls to not be alive anymore man