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The government paid like $1B for wind farm developers to abandon projects.
Most of the time government slows things down, but the current administration actively fights against progress or shatter people want. wtf does he care about wind farms in New England enough to shut them down
I mean the alternatives are not all wine and roses. We pay among the highest electricity prices in the country and a big part of that is depending on wind farms that are already like a decade behind. Previous governments slowed them down, letting everyone be heard, but they didn’t actively oppose
Oh, I agree with you on that. We should not be picking winners and losers based on politics. That way leads to ruin.
When the right complains about wind farm and solar subsidies, I agree with them. They need to prosper or not on their own, not with tax money.
When the left complains about oil and gas exploration subsidies, I agree with them, too. For the same reason as above.
I get why people want to nationalize all these industries, and it's because those industries were created in large part by using our money.
I also know that when a government constantly shields its citizens, including their businesses, from their own mistakes, it tends to create an attitude of dismissal towards improvement.