Holy third World country Batman! This administration is fucking insane.
US Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “I'm thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will end the subsidies for wind and solar projects”
Submitted 20 hours ago by Wudi@feddit.uk to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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michaelalf@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Veserr@sh.itjust.works 19 hours ago
I don’t think he is insane at all. He went to MIT. He owns an oil company.
In 2011, he founded Liberty Energy, then known as Liberty Oilfield Services.[15] As of February 2023, the company was valued at $2.8 billion, according to The Wall Street Journal. As the CEO of Liberty Energy, Wright earned $5.6 million in 2023.
In 2019 Wright drank fracking fluid to demonstrate that it was not dangerous. In a video posted to LinkedIn in January 2023, he said, “There is no climate crisis and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either”.
On November 16, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced his nomination of Wright to serve as U.S. secretary of energy
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wright#cite_note-Libe…
The insane people are the ones who voted for this.
snooggums@piefed.world 16 hours ago
If he was sane he would pivot his company to renewables. Companies change what they do all the time.
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
None of this is proof of sanity, especially the drinking fracking fluid bit. I’d argue just owning an oil company in this day-and-age alone qualifies one for some kind of major personality disorder.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Blatant corporate capture.
FundMECFS@piefed.zip 10 hours ago
Maybe being unable to feel empathy and only caring about being powerful and pleasing those in power can be considered as insanity?
Stormy@thelemmy.club 18 hours ago
It’s intentional. Remember the big show of him and billionairs flying to grovel to China a month ago?
The help he’s given Russia and the surrender to iran.
He’s destroying the place on purpose
4am@lemmy.zip 17 hours ago
“Don’t worry Jeffery…I’ll show them. I’ll destroy their precious America for what they made me do to you…”
Fit_Series_573@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
This is happening as the nation is in a massive heatwave that’s about to cause unbelievable electric bills to a large chunk of the country since we already barely produce enough energy as it is… Idiocracy grows by the day
OccamsTeapot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
“Low value energy” because “the sun doesn’t always shine and the wind doesn’t always blow.”
Oil, on the other hand, famously requires no effort whatsoever to locate, extract and refine before use. The wells are just spewing out oil constantly, for free, for eternity. We never have to transport it. Oil just spawns nearby population hubs as
AllahyahwehJESUS wills it. There’s no way a hostile country could close a relatively small waterway and make that a lot less convenient. And no, oil will not run out eventually. It’s eternal. Omg what a cuck who cares about climate change? CO2 is just plant food. Did you fail high school science?Thank you. I’m thrilled to be destroying the climate (and getting rich) on this blessed day of independence
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Funnily enough, oil is just solar energy stored in molecules.
Sparrow_1029@programming.dev 3 hours ago
“Buried sunshine”
echodot@feddit.uk 15 hours ago
If only it were possible to stockpile energy against any future need.
blarth@thelemmy.club 15 hours ago
The wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining. It’s absolute hell!
OccamsTeapot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
Just imagine! We would be so stuck. It would require some kind of hydrocarbon-based fuel to be held in storage just in case. Or we could try to split the atom. But that’s pure madness. It’d never work
Vorticity@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Why does everything that comes from this administration have to be the worst possible decision for any given situation? They’re so dumb, you’d think they’d stumble into a good thing every once in a while.
Fuck these malicious assholes!
Tattorack@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
A stupid person flailing around with their decisions will end up making a number of good decisions by sheer statistical probability.
America hasn’t made one good decision, not even by accident. So the only conclusion I can draw is America is incredibly malicious and has become hostile to all things good.
Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
That’s not entirely true, they stopped minting pennies pretty early on.
7101334@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
So the only conclusion I can draw is America is incredibly malicious and has become hostile to all things good.
Yeah, only not “has become”, but “always was”. It was just more convenient marketing to pretend otherwise.
HCSOThrowaway@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Because there’s big money in doing the worst possible decision and the American voters are more or less fine with money in politics.
cecinestpasunecommunication@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 hours ago
There are things the majority of Americans want and have no option to vote for. Have wanted for years.
I don’t like Americans.
I do not think Americans would make good or compassionate decisions.
But the american people simply are not in control here. The entire electoral system is built to keep them away from power.
TachyonTele_Esq@piefed.social 4 hours ago
You have no understanding how the county works, do you
monotremata@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
They do very occasionally blunder into something that has merits. Like, they rescheduled marijuana, and they’re fast-tracking research on therapeutic psilocybin and MDMA. Those are positive things, broadly speaking. Removing the tax on tipped workers was also helpful for some working-class people.
I can’t think of anything else off the top of my head, but part of that is probably availability bias: the vaguely positive stuff that they do is a lot less emotionally charged, and therefore less memorable, than the wildly awful stuff they also constantly do.
AA5B@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Removing the tax on tipped workers was also helpful for some working-class people.
I’m much more cynical about this. Tipping has always been the most acceptable kind of tax fraud, that we all willingly participate in. I’m sure it’s changing as credit cards dominate, but tips paid in cash leave no record trail, no evidence that they ever existed. Why would wait staff be diligent about reporting it? At the same time, it’s small potatoes to the IRS, hardly worth trying to enforce. Why even bother?
7101334@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Like, they rescheduled marijuana
As someone in the cannabis industry, that is very unlikely to be a positive thing for anyone except rich dicks who own MSO’s.
For reference, cannabis legalization in California was, by and large, terrible for the average consumer. You have people sucking on heavy-metal laden commodified cannabis (vape carts) for the first time on a large scale as a result of it, prices are generally higher, and quality is universally lower.
AA5B@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
they rescheduled marijuana
Half-assed it. How do you schedule the drug differently when it’s “medical” vs recreational? I don’t partake so it doesn’t affect me either way, but a lot of people like it for anxiety and to help calm the mind to sleep.
How is it that a person in Massachusetts trying to calm their anxiety is using “drugs with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.”, but a person in Florida using it exactly the same is using “ as drugs with a moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence.”?
Avicenna@programming.dev 11 hours ago
worst possible decision stated in the worst possible trump cock sucking way possible
Furbag@pawb.social 8 hours ago
They do, every once in a rare while, actually make a really bold but good decision. It’s always framed as “we’re doing [insert good thing] to own the libs!” And them they get all surprised when we’re not angry about it. And then they quietly yank the bill or get Trump or some republican governor to veto it or something so they aren’t embarrassed thay they actually passed bipartisan popular legislation.
jestho@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Short term profits (bribes)
Mereo@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Well USA, you have signed your demise against China.
crandlecan@mander.xyz 18 hours ago
Ssssst! They don’t know yet!!
axh@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
They know. They just don’t care. North Korea might be a poor shithole but Kim is an Emperor for life, and can do whatever he wants. I would guess that’s what Donny aims for.
fizzle@quokk.au 17 hours ago
Indeed.
In fairness the USA has been fairly methodical about regressing in this way, not like this one thing had totally fucked them.
OctopusNemeses@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
The problem will go away if they post enough “china bad” on social media.
DERRALEXANO@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Backwards af
Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 16 hours ago
“I’m thrilled to report that after 35 years, on July 4th, we will take the future of our grandchildren out into the backyard and shoot it into the head until it dies on the altar of fossil fuel profits.”
npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
Oh, no, they wouldn’t do that. That’s murder! No, no, they shoot the grandkids in the legs and arms, then complain they’re lazy and entitled and say nothing was done to them. Bring your popcorn, and if you’re feeling generous, you can smother it in crude and offer it to the grandkids.
mechoman444@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I was just about to say as opposed to what burning coal?
b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
America and Americans fucking suck dude. What a bunch of shitty dumbarses.
Pollo_Jack@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Don’t tolerate religious conservatives in your country. It could happen to you.
7101334@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
This country is founded on religious conservatives lol
Not to say your sentiment about them being bad is wrong, but rather to say, you should extend that sentiment to realizing that America is what America has always been. Just ask the natives, or most South Americans, or the Vietnamese, or the Iraqis, or the Yemeni people, or the Palestinians, or…
victorz@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Some Americans are pretty cool, though. Not everyone is a piece of shit like in the administration. Many are, but many are also pretty based.
Speaking as a European.
SpraynardKruger@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Thanks. As someone from the USA, I will say that perhaps the vast majority of us are dumbass pieces of shit. But it’s not everyone, and there are some pockets of civilized people, even in this hellhole. Hope you’re managing to keep cool in the heat wave over there!
UltraBlack@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Germany has Katherina Reiche. Equally as retarded
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Not all americans, but all the ones at the top that can make money are absolutely abusing and exploiting the system at the cost of the earth and life itself. Green supercedes everything in America. Unbelievably sad.
7101334@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
It’s not abusing or exploiting the system. Massive wealth accumulation is the goal of capitalism and is inevitable so long as egregiously wealthy families are able to pass that wealth on.
Alternatively / additionally, “the purpose of a system is what it does”
FoxtrotDeltaTango@sh.itjust.works 5 hours ago
This unfortunately, truth nuke. This administration is the worst
vimdiesel@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I think your country your country’s citizens suck a lot more though, just to put that out there.
See how blanket statements are ridiculous and dumb af?
davidagain@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
US Energy Secretary: “I’m thrilled to report that tomorrow morning, on July 4th, we will end subsidies for wind and solar projects”
Celebrating America’s independence from rational thought, independence from cheap energy sources, and independence from looking after our children and grandchildren.
TrippingBalls@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
I had to double check that this wasn’t The Onion
davidagain@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
The Onion has got me so regularly because Republicans are so willing to do crazy shit that’s obviously a Very Bad Idea Indeed and completely bonkers, just to “own the libs” that the Onion can write batshit crazy nonsense and not sound any different from trump.
el_twitto@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
Fuck those stupid fucking motherfuckers. Fuck, I hate what these ignorant fuckwits have done to my country. I hope they all get cancer and die soon.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Considering that theyre doing this to prop up oil and coal, they might. I mean, we all might too.
manxu@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Silly you: no more wind farms means no more cancer! The Prez said so! /s
tal@lemmy.today 16 hours ago
I mean, there are a bunch of people who are involved in the oil and gas (and coal, but those guys are are a corpse) industry who are terrified of things going away. If coal goes, so does, say, Gillette, Wyoming. That’s part of where Trump got support from.
But it’s not gonna change the general trajectory much on carbon. They might kick the can down the road a little more, but it’s gonna die sooner or later.
Mangoholic@lemmy.ml 6 hours ago
We are happy to announce, that we managed to fucked your future for our profit. Thank you.
Mediocre_Bard_Redeux@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
America is the dumbest fucking country.
switcheroo@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Wind and solar are free, hence why they’re being axed by this miserable fucks. Oil and gas can be sold and their lobbyists pay shitheads like this clown big bucks.
We got other countries with surplus because they went solar and wind-- literally giving back to the community because of excess-- but since the Pedo Party can’t make a buck off it, we suffer for it
vimdiesel@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Nothing is free, but they are a better alternative to fossil fuels, but don’t make such uneducated statements as “wind and solar are free”
khannie@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
It’s… Just like looking at a car crash in slow motion.
Like renewables just keep on giving and provide so much energy security. I honestly can’t see why any country, even with the vast reserves of fossil fuel that the US has, willingly ignores the future. Wild.
catboy_slim@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Who needs green energy when we have a green reflecting pool?
Eddbopkins@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
This guy does not have the American interest in mind and heart.
UpperBroccoli@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
“Ha ga fuck you all, hope you die. God bless America yadda yadda”
Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
Unfortunately, the sun and wind have no money to “donate” to our political parties, and the oil companies have many billions of dollars, so sun and wind is out on its ass.
crwth@piefed.zip 4 hours ago
One neat thing about solar and wind energy, that might have national security implications in light of recent events, is that it’s really hard to blockade.
HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Not surprised. Just tired.
Slovene85@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
jaykrown@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
End all subsidies for coal NOW.
k0e3@lemmy.ca 13 hours ago
What stupid fucking country lmao
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
Well, I guess Americans are going to have expensive energy bills next. After groceries and heath care. Next thing is a sports drink company going to buy the rights to water? So Brawndo will replace tapwater. Because it’s what plants crave, it has electrolytes.
SpraynardKruger@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Now there’s an idea! We can finally stop giving them water, which is used in toilets.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
All these fuckers need to be closed into a room with a running engine.
scarabic@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
California was 67% powered by alternative sources in 2024: 22.8% Solar 13.8% Wind 12.5% Hydroelectric 11.1% Nuclear 5.0% Geothermal 1.9% Biomass
Source: California Department of Energy
We have also been adding an enormous amount of battery storage to the grid. Cheap (but large and heavy) sodium batteries don’t work well for cars but they’re great for stacking up next to solar farms.
Meanwhile Republicants whine about how it can’t be done. Fucking losers. The sad fact is that the US is diverse and a place like California is essentially a modern country but we also have petrostates like Alaska and Louisiana that fall apart without oil.
myrrh@ttrpg.network 3 hours ago
…texas is trailing at 41% low-carbon but wind and solar are gangbuster growth industries here…
22% wind
12% solar
7% nuclear
48% natural gas
11% coal
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
realitista@lemmus.org 19 hours ago
…but not for fossil fuels
NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
Won’t somebody rid me of this meddlesome Energy Secretary…
Kaliax@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
This is going to be part of their messaging for why energy prices are going up–NOT Surveillance Centers–but, renewable energies… fuck these people forever.
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
I did an experiment with this - knowing nothing about this guy, I was like “I bet he either worked or currently still works for the oil industry.” Then went to Wikipedia and the second sentence of his article is:
Nailed it lol
RogueJello@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
Good news! (For him) Under the current lack of rules he probably didn’t have to give up any of the stock in Liberty Energy! Hope that works out for him (not really) when we start living under the rule of law again.