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For Sale Mar 24, 2026 at 1:37 AM

US to pay TotalEnergies $1 billion to stop developing offshore wind in US

Posted by snowcat0


https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/trumps-latest-anti-wind-effort-pay-companies-to-abandon-offshore-leases/

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snowcat0 Mar 24, 2026 +1
I didn't know winning was to pay large sums of Tax Payer money to go back to the stone age, they really want us to go back to coal...
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Interesting-Risk6446 Mar 24, 2026 +1
The administration is using taxpayer money to prevent coal plants from closing. One such coal plant still hasn't reopened. Why spend free money. We are being fleeced.
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Extension_Pin_6359 Mar 24, 2026 +1
If we'd leaned into wind 20 years ago, we wouldn't give a f*** who ruled in Iran and nobody else would either.
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OldSchoolBubba Mar 24, 2026 +1
Once again we see big "donor" money in action which proves we still have the best government money can buy Our tax dollars at work
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2HDFloppyDisk Mar 24, 2026 +1
How conservative of our government.
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Redtex Mar 24, 2026 +1
That's the American taxpayers dollars that he's giving there by the way. All because he wants to charge more for the gas you buy
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Agressive-toothbrush Mar 24, 2026 +1
Relax people, this is just as expensive as 12 hours in the war in Iran... /s
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Careful-Rent5779 Mar 24, 2026 +1
$1Billion of US tax payer funds. Simply because DonOld ~~Trump~~ Quixote has a windmill phobia. >*"Fortune is guiding our affairs better than we could have wished; for you see there before you, friend Sancho Panza, some thirty or more lawless giants with whom I mean to do battle."*
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Bishopjones2112 Mar 24, 2026 +1
Yeah the Trump administration wants to pay one billion to stop putting in wind generators because they “don’t work and drive the whales crazy”. I’m waiting to hear about how the earth is maybe flat come from Trump.
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SlyJackFox Mar 24, 2026 +1
They should keep building anyway.
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Key-Incident6020 Mar 24, 2026 +1
Why do we pay taxes?
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AINonsense Mar 24, 2026 +1
So ‘President’ Pedo Piggy PoopyPants can use them to protect his cronies’ investments. And so his cronies don’t have to, ofc.
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SuperDuper00001 Mar 24, 2026 +1
Will we have to dress like the 1890s, too?!
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AINonsense Mar 24, 2026 +1
Only women, ofc.
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Intel-Source Mar 24, 2026 +1
So they are going to make floating solar barges instead?
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DistractedPhoenix Mar 24, 2026 +1
This just seems downright fiscally conservative
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