Accept.
Then use the money to build an even bigger solar farm.
It’s contingent on building fossil fuel plants.
So hold on, doesn’t this mean that companies can just threaten to build wind turbines and get a bunch of bribes? Any sensible businessman would immediately spin up 500 companies to do this as fast as possible.
Instead, TotalEnergies will now spend the money on the development of a new liquified natural gas plant in Texas that will help export US LNG overseas to Europe, CEO Patrick Pouyanné said in a statement.
Phew! Good! This WAR has Taught me the LAST thing I want my Tax Dollars going towards is Energy that our Enemies DONT Control!
-Republicans!
Usas economy relies on other countries use of oil.
USA is going to collapse once the world wakes up to the fact it’s being played out like a Mafia controlled neighborhood.
They rely on other countries using the Petrodollar, not buying oil. Once other countries move to another currency America will go bankrupt, and that isn’t speculation, it’s very much reality. America is doing everything to stop this.
It won’t work though, the talk have already started happening. Americans better get used to the a lower standard is living because it’s going to be impossible to increase moving standards under the current debt.
The petrodollar was slowly dying already and the iran war is the final nail in the coffin
I agree.
Oil’s being openly sold in yuan now and america can’t do anything about it
where???
One of the reasons the petroyuan was created was that Russia, Venezuela and Iran may be able to avoid the United States’ sanctions, so nations such as Saudi Arabia, one of the main oil producers and extractors could avoid dollar hegemony and U.S. pressure. The yuan’s main problems are its volatile liquidity and short scale extension, however the Chinese government intervened increasing its gold reserves to back the petroyuan.
And moving away from oil is a good way to move away from the petrodollar, too. (Not to mention better for our future.)
I agree.
Lower? Bitch if we stop being a world power our standard of living will probably get higher. We can stop wasting all our resources on the military and propping up stupid shit and actually get some fucking healthcare.
I disagree with this, our standard is living is only possible because we “tax” the world though money printing. When other countries stop using the dollar we will no long be able to run on debt. A lot of things we pay for will shutdown.
Like the government? And the airports? And the parks?
And medical, and social security ect.
Bold of you to assume they don’t see France as an enemy.
Hey, if we all club together we could get through the first few stages of getting our own windfarm approved and then Trump could pay us a billion to cancel and we all walk away with a share.
Who’s in?
And then build it anyways.
Well yea, that’s what we need the billion for. It’s the AI startup model.
wait that’s it you’re a genius. Al controlled wind farm. we’ll use Al to turn the farm to face the right direction so it gets the most out of the wind (al is a loose hing at the top of the windmill don’t tell anyone. or we hire a guy named AL. i dunno)
there’s no precise definition of AI, it can just be an arduino taking the input from a couple sensors to decide where the turbine should point.
see that’s way more complicated than just hiring a bunch of folk
Hire a guy named AL to point the windmill and say it’s AI (just use a non-serif font)
I feel like in that case laws would suddenly exist for billionaires again, for just that case. “You defrauded the government!!”
Bring the money to Canada and build it here!
Then sell the electricity back to the us at premium prices
. . . Hookers and Blackjack?
You take the billion bucks, fold the company, start a new company, and build more windmills!
Count me in
Screams old, pedophilic con man.
Wait, was Tony a pedo?
I think that was referring to Trump exclusively. I do not remember Tony being a pedo, nor do I know of any accusations towards James Gandolfini himself
Just a criminal, racist, homophobe, murderer, misogynist. And I don’t doubt that his character could off-camera “fuck” some 17 year olds. So, pretty close to Trump on all accounts minus the incoherent ramblings.
he was a saint!
I have an idea… Take the money… And then do it anyway. That’s what he did countless times in his life
The terms are that the trump admin will give them the Money only if/when that french company builds a gigaproject on fossil fuels. And it’s 99.9% sure that he will change his taco mind on that when it’s time to open the wallet
Ahh so then they should pull their pants down (and their underwear) and say ‘do me like you did Bill Clinton and then we’ll talk!’
This is beyond stupidity.
China will be decades ahead in energy with these moronic decisions and eventually that’s also proportional to AI scalability.
The more America becomes the villain, the more it is causing other countries to realign to the Middle Kingdom.
I never realised how tiny Winnie the Pooh’s hands are until now.
This is simply treason.
China has the mandate of heaven
Will be?
fortunately everything isn’t run by federal decree. as much as they wish. setbacks are not permanent but when the factory down the street shuts down, they lose support.
The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/23/climate/trump-totalenergies-offshore-wind-cancellation
Just to be clear, this money was already spent by the previous administration on federal leases that were going to be used to build these offshore farms. The government will now be reimbursing the company the money it spent on those leases. Not quite just paying the company to not do something like the headline makes it seem. But that’s now $1 billion that could certainly be put to better use elsewhere that will be wasted paying this company back.
It’s also embarrassingly short sided for a myriad of reasons but that doesn’t matter anymore. We’re great again!
it’s about the offshore view from his golf course. self-serving scumbag. needs oil platforms
I can’t imagine thinking wind turbines are ugly. There’s something wrong with conservative brains
Yes.
Primarily, too much fear response. Fear makes you stupid.
Secondarily, too much in-group loyalty. They’ll do and believe anything if that’s what the group believes.
Easiest question to shut them up: “Would you rather live next to a wind turbine, or an oil refinery?”
Or nuclear reactor, or coal powerplant.
Many things wrong with them.
coming from the same people that wouldn’t hesitate to sell yosemite to a megacorp.
What’s hilarious about all this is if you actually go there and look out to see you can barely even see the wind turbines.
As a huge metal fan I love this but as a wind power fan I regret to inform you those aren’t made of metal, they’re composite, metal is weigh too heavy and expensive.
I would like to throw my hat in the ring and say that I will not build a wind farm for a mere $500M
shit, I won’t do it if they call it square on my medical bills.
I’m a cheap date.
Again the ever quixotic Don tilts at windmills! Onward, Rocinante!
Apparently, this has been going on for a while! https://archive.is/9BNsM
STOP GIVING AWAY OUR MONEY, FUCKO
Stop paying taxes, fucking mark.
Yeah, cause drawing a giant federal target on my back during the most oppressive, likely-to-murder-Americans regime in our history is a good idea.
Got any other Shark Tank worthy gems for us?
Yes. Obey in advance. Work towards the fuhrer. Snitch on any brown neighbors to ice even if you were in the room when they were born. Post exterminationist anti-queer propaganda on twitter. Offer the cops who polive you free donuts and coffee. Invent a new fascist political tendency. Be the vanguard of every lynch mob. Join the kkk. Start an apocalyptic christian sect. Beat your wife. Enlist in ice.
Do whatever it takes to keep yourself safe!
Not inviting the IRS to audit my family is part of why I have the upper class luxury of being able to skip work to go protest.
Yell at the system, not me.
The freedom to beg them to stop is absolutely worth paying the salary and buying the gun and buying the bullet that will fucking kill me.
Thank you comrade. Thank you for your solidarity. A few more like you and the worlds ptoblems will be fixed. How can they not listen to your voice when you obey so completely?
Love you too, sexy.
The day people like you accept the fact that the umbrella of antifascism covers everyone who hates fascists, not just everyone who thinks, fights, and advocates like you will be a good day.
Until then, have the one you deserve. 💋
Im saying the sacrifice is larger than the effort in your case. Protests are no longer meaningful anti-fascism.
This guy glows in the dark lmao
I will gladly update my W-4 to stop withholding federal taxes as soon as you manage to convince everyone else in Kansas to do the same
Of course you can only follow the herd.
I would bet my left leg that you haven’t abstained from paying federal taxes either
How much we talking?
The Interior Department hailed the “innovative agreement” with the French energy giant and said, “the American people will no longer pay for ideological subsidies that benefited only the unreliable and costly offshore wind industry.″
I want these ghouls to not be alive anymore man
Shoot… I would have not built a wind farm for only a million!
For 500,000$ I also would swear not to ever build a wind farm!
You’re killing the market with your undercutting. If we’re going to be Not Building Oligarchs, we have to rig the government procurement process. Nobody can go under $750 million.
American farmers are paid to not grow crops to keep crop prices high lol
Their precious “Free Market” at work.
Let’s not build one for $1B and put it toward actual infrastructure, covering states in the order they joined the union.
Think theyll pay my company to not install the ~4M in solar we have lined up?
