Once upon a time, offshore wind power was seen as a subsidy Bonanza that would outlast religion. That was then. This is now. The Trump administration has all but destroyed the promise and is well advanced in its efforts to destroy the threatened disasters in the making. Which brings us to this week’s roundup. A … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 5 October 2025
Category: ending renewable energy subsidies
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 27 July 2025
Slash the massive subsidies and the so-called wind and solar ‘industries’ would disappear in a heartbeat. The chaotic delivery of part-time power has never made any sense. And the world is waking up to that unassailable fact. Which brings us to this week’s roundup, starting the team from Jo Nova reporting on BP’s moment of … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 27 July 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 20 July 2025
Where occasionally generating power using breezes onshore is ludicrously costly, doing so offshore is positively bonkers. The exorbitant and exponentially rising costs associated with planting these things in marine environments has seen dozens upon dozens of projects scotched in the US, UK, Europe and now Australia. Which brings us to this week’s roundup. The team … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 20 July 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 13 July 2025
Any country that signed up to the subsidised wind and solar scam is facing the inevitable power pricing and supply calamity that follows. Now that they’re facing the inevitable backlash from taxpayers and power consumers (ie voters), many of those same countries are quietly crab walking away from the avoidable disasters they created. The outbreak … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 13 July 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 6 July 2025
As Americans celebrated the 4th of July, Donald J Trump was busy delivering Independence from the grand subsidised wind and solar scam. Their President hates these things, with a passion, and is determined to Make America The Great Energy Powerhouse Again. Unleashing America’s vast hydrocarbon reserves and turning them into productivity and prosperity is part … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 6 July 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 June 2025
The subsidised wind and solar chickens are coming home to roost - power prices are rocketing out of control in any jurisdiction attempting to run on sunshine and breezes. Adding mega-batteries only makes matters worse. With the ever-present threat of total blackouts, rent-seekers and their propaganda machines are still attempting to deflect and bury what … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 1 June 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 6 April 2025
With Donald Trump’s tariff-led geopolitical strategy in train, watch countries rapidly ditch their obsession with chaotically intermittent wind and solar. Cheap and reliable energy is, always and everywhere, the key to competing in the global marketplace. That’s precisely why China dominates in manufacturing all of the stuff that the West consumes and uses. And within … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 6 April 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 23 March 2025
Among rent-seeking wind and solar subsidy grifters and their spin masters, desperation is the new black. Donald Trump’s moves the throttle their so-called ‘industries’ on American soil has rattled investors and seen plans for dozens of large-scale wind and solar factories scrapped, around the globe. Which brings us to this week's roundup. Paul Brown gives … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 23 March 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 25 February 2025
Wind and solar sit at the heart of the net-zero CO2 emissions scam which, thanks to Donald J Trump, is in its terminal phase. Indeed, the climate cult and its beneficiaries are in more trouble the Ned Kelly and his bushranger brothers at Glenrowan. Kicking off this week’s roundup, Robert Bryce provides a delightful summary … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 25 February 2025
Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 16 February 2025
Thanks to Donald J Trump, wind and solar rent-seekers are facing total Armageddon - pro-reliable and affordable energy bloggers are having a field day. First up, Roger Caiazza smashes the “wind is always blowing somewhere” myth with data gathered from across the USA, proving (if ever there was any doubt) that wind (and its sunshine-dependent … Continue reading Stop These Things’ Weekly Round Up: 16 February 2025