America’s renewable energy rent seekers sought to snare $billions from Trump’s $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus and failed. Now they’re back with a vengeance, and hard at it again. The wind and solar ‘industries’ have always exhibited their very own gobsmacking version of audacity. But, with America facing an economic calamity of a magnitude not seen … Continue reading Gobsmacking Audacity: Wind & Solar Industries Demand $Billions in Handouts From COVID-19 Stimulus Package
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Trump Slams Wind Power: Making America Great Again Means Coal, Gas & Nuclear Power
Teenage girls in woolly hats weren’t the only ones screaming when Donald Trump took the presidency, the wind and solar industries were furious, too. Trump has never been a fan of the wind industry, not least because of his battle with a wind developer keen on spearing 11 of these things next to a golf … Continue reading Trump Slams Wind Power: Making America Great Again Means Coal, Gas & Nuclear Power
Bluff & Bluster: US Wind Industry Furious Over Trump’s Promise to Slash Massive RE Subsidies
Way back in 1984, wind cultist Christopher Flavin’s told us that “in a few years’ time wind energy will not need to be subsidised.” 34 years on, the subsidies just keep on flowing and, without those subsidies, the so called wind ‘industry’ would disappear like a snowflake in summer. No matter where they ply their … Continue reading Bluff & Bluster: US Wind Industry Furious Over Trump’s Promise to Slash Massive RE Subsidies