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, America’s independence from cheap energy sources, and America’s independence from looking after our children and grandchildren.
I had to double check that this wasn’t The Onion
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.
Talk about getting on the wrong side of history. We’d still be bashing rocks together if idiots like this had their way everywhere. Luckily it’s only the US that wants to slide into obscurity.
Holy third World country Batman! This administration is fucking insane.
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
“Don’t worry Jeffery…I’ll show them. I’ll destroy their precious America for what they made me do to you…”
Don’t be rude. “Third World” countries aren’t this idiotic and know that renewable energy is the cheapest form of electrical energy, and the easiest to implement, that there is.
I was about to say, all those third world countries in Africa and South America are looking to do wind, solar, etc because it’s cheap and independent, rather than relying on coal or gas from other nations.
Yep. It’s time people start remembering that those # World groupings were geographical in nature, not economical.
It was about support during WW2.
Yes, and decimate use to mean to destroy one tenth of something.
Definitions change from their original usage.
Close but wrong, it was the alignment during the cold war:
- First World: USA & allies
- Second World: USSR & allies
- Third World: non-aligned
Yes, already edited.
That’s explicitly false.
They’re ideological, a hangover from the cold war.
The first world: The US, plus its allies in NATO which were mostly in Western Europe.
The second world: Russia and the USSR, plus its sphere of influence through the Warsaw pact.
The third world: Literally everyone else.
So for example the underdeveloped backwards hellholes of… er, Finland, Sweden, and Switzerland were all non-aligned and thus technically “third world” nations.
Fair enough. My point mostly was that for most (older) Western Europeans 3rd world is a synonym for an economic hellhole. Like, Switzerland. Fracking socialists 😤 Wait, that sounds… Wrong…? No? Anyways, it’s not just ‘poor Africans’.
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
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wright#cite_note-LibertyLeadership-14
The insane people are the ones who voted for this.
Blatant corporate capture.
Maybe being unable to feel empathy and only caring about being powerful and pleasing those in power can be considered as insanity?
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.
If he was sane he would pivot his company to renewables. Companies change what they do all the time.
Competing with China is too much work. Easier to game the system than it is to change a business.
Exactly. One of the big mistakes the average person makes is assuming aligned interest. When they make a move that we consider “insane” it’s because we’re focused on different outcomes.
Why are you doubling down on an energy sector that is more expensive, in decline, and causes pollution? You’d be insane not to pivot to renewables!
But… oil is subsidised, and they don’t care about pollution or oil decline because those are too far out. They can make money right now, more of it than they will ever need. So they do.
While I understand this sentiment and do agree that we should have a high sense of climate urgency, oil companies aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. A big first step is simply to stop burning oil, but even if we do that we will still require a huge amount of it. All plastics, ALL of them, are oil derivatives.
Look around you, wherever you are, and you will see things that are made with plastics. And if they aren’t made out of oil derivatives, they are made by oil derivatives either as a source of energy, or the machinery to make it has plastics. The clothes you are wearing, your shoes, your hair comb, your toaster, car, glasses, pc, t-shirt, birding binoculars, camping tent, the list is never ending because it’s everyfuckingwhere. The prints on your glass, the pen with which you write or the keyboard you type on, it is so incredibly pervasive.
So we can rant at these oil companies, but an enormous chunk of the economy depends on it and that’s a simple fact. I’m not claiming to have the answers, but we can’t just get rid of oil, which is why I say that step 1 is to simply stop burning it. That will already stop the worst, the bleeding if you will.
And sure, renewables are good and to have renewable energy is infinitely better than burning oil, but they only solve the most obvious problem. The real issue is what would we use instead of plastics? And as far as I know, there is no alternative.
we need a c/wildlyinfuriating
We already have news, politics
Adding this to my list of reasons why I hate this fucking holiday.
Fucking ghoul
What a cunty cunt.
Look at his dead eyes. There is no life or soul in his eyes at all. He’s a psychopath. It’s so creepy and disturbing that we allow psychopathic monsters to rule us.
They will be outcompeted by the world. Pissrael can’t help them.
Last week the French had to turn off many of their nuclear power stations because they couldn’t cool them down. The Germans sent them electricity. Generated by renewables.
That said, the German government wants to get rid of renewables too.
That said, the German government wants to get rid of renewables too.
Because they’re maniacs feasting on and being pulled out of Mango Mussolinis Arsehole.
With our demographics though it’s the government that was to be expected and - if there’s no miracle waiting around the corner - might be the best government for many years to come. I’m so sick of this shit.
It’s soo sad seeing that there was zero hesitation when this guy spoke. Like no twitching of remorse to understand that what they are saying is obscenely ignorant and dismissive. But on the flip side great actor maybe??
Money is a decent motivator, especially when you’re a sociopath that really doesn’t give a fuck about facts or logic. Member when the right wing imbiciles took over YouTube, the goal was to coopt reality, because they knew what they were doing, lining their pockets with both elite money, and idiot money - not bringing truth to power of the lieberal media.
That dude is not blinking, Im not say its def Ai, but I wouldny be surprised if theyre using AI to release status updates like this.
We also cant give land for renewables, but data centers itsa aokayyy
okay
Has to be AI. Wtf
They’ve been caught doing it multiple times iirc, its difficult to say but it is odd that you can’t see his hands
Except he does blink? Like many many times?
These losers can’t read the room. Energy prices have skyrocketed, and we’re all stuck holding the bag again, just like we always do. Also, since this is blatant propaganda, why would anyone use wind or solar if it didn’t work? Simple question. God what a clown show.
They’re trying to crash the country they don’t care how so the billionaires can carve it up into city states. This isn’t a secret plan, Peter Thiel and his ilk have been pretty open about this plan.
Yep. States like Oklahoma are already petty fiefdoms ran by whatever christofascist can yell the loudest. We have zero government transparency or accountability because the federal government refuses to enforce the law.
It’s basically a hostile merger. They cut their teeth in unregulated markets and then noticed the government over there just getting tax money for nothing.
Not surprised. Just tired.
Romania is averaging 70% renewable production on sunny days
Solar is about 40%
Hydro fills in really nicely for solar and wind when conditions are rough
Number 1 issue right now is lack of storage capacity leading to nighttime imports and thus high bills, but that will hopefully be resolved in the coming years
People keep pointing to China, but there’s plenty European countries doing way better. The US is way behind. So is China
The reason people keep pointing to China is because China’s solar generates around half the electricity of the EU does from all sources.
They’re ‘behind,’ because unlike Europe they’re trying to lift around a billion people out of poverty and have already lifted 800 million out of poverty while making practically all solar panels that the entire world installs.
