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Absolutely. The US unfortunately was too politically pigheaded to build manufacturing for solar and wind and continue to pay for it. Go thank your local GOP r
by boringg 4y ago
Absolutely. The US unfortunately was too politically pigheaded to build manufacturing for solar and wind and continue to pay for it. Go thank your local GOP rep and global warming conspiracy theorist for handing out those jobs offshore.
- jdhn 4y agoThe US shouldn't be subsidizing those jobs. What should be happening is that tariffs should be slapped on companies like Vestas that are basically government backed companies in order to even the playing field.
- cinntaile 4y agoVestas is not a government backed company, see my other comment.
- missedthecue 4y agoWhy? If the Danish taxpayer is going to subsidize my country's wind infrastructure, why should I stop them?
- jimmydorry 4y agoYou get short-term subsidised infrastructure at the cost of cutting off all future local R&D and local manufacturing capacity. For a small country, this is probably worth it. For a global behemoth? Probably not. Like all things in life, there are trade-offs, and allowing the decimation of local capability on what should be of national concern (energy security) was short-sighted at best.
- pstuart 4y agoIt's heartbreaking that alternative energy has been so horribly politicized -- we all win with its success.