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The USofA is a broligarchy not a capitalist society, so there's that. Trump has his thumb on the scales, cancelling wind farms in progress via executive order,
by defrost 7mo ago
The USofA is a broligarchy not a capitalist society, so there's that.
Trump has his thumb on the scales, cancelling wind farms in progress via executive order, not cancelling the federal subsidies for fossil fuels, etc.
There are always transition overheads to breach - in China the government there subsidised the non existant EV industry into being, now that's going gang busters the government support has dropped back to near zero.
- sheikhnbake 7mo agoBroligarchy is the natural end stage of unfettered capitalism. We've arguably never been more capitalist.
- ordu 7mo ago> cancelling wind farms in progress via executive order He is going to pay them $1B to drop their plans: https://www.npr.org/2026/03/23/g-s1-114868/trump-totalenergies-offshore-wind-leases https://www.npr.org/2026/03/23/g-s1-114868/trump-totalenergi...
- defrost 7mo agoOnly if they give that money to the fossil fuel industry ... bit of an important detail in the context of US energy subsidies and thumbs on scales. Environmental groups denounced the deal as an alternate way to block wind projects, with one group calling it a "billion-dollar bribe" to kill clean energy. "After losing again and again in court on his illegal stop-work orders, Trump has found another way to strangle offshore wind: pay them to walk away," said Lena Moffitt, executive director of Evergreen Action.