Why do cuts to loans and tax credits constitute a setback to US energy security? The fact that this is being reported in the Washington Post also gives me pause. From what I can see, Mr Trump is bent on unleashing US energy production including clean coal.
Regarding those "red state Republicans" hanging on to those egregious green scam subsidies, they should be ashamed. Those idiotic windmills and Chicom bird roasters are a blight on the landscape and should be and should be shut down and destroyed.
Since carbon and carbon dioxide are the basis for all life on earth, "low carbon" policies sound like a death cult to me. Still, nukes will power AI and much else if allowed.
Ultimately, the European oligarchs may appear to concede to obvious realities in their public statements, but all previous bad thinking and behavior will still weigh them down.. It's a lot easier to keep nuclear plants than to un-mothball, recreate or expand them.
". . . but even the French heavily subsidized their nuclear fleet."
Well yes, but we need to remember that most of the cost, especially those due to process delay, are government mandated - so they force the expenditure with the hidden left hand, and then publically subsidize the plant with the visible hand.
Of course the rate payer is on the hook twice here so it's not a breakeven - we pay once for the expenditures (plus interest/admin/taxes) on the power bill and once on the direct tax bill for the subsidies.
I do not think the people in Congress intend this - but the net effect of cancelling subsidies for Nuclear while keeping them for green waste might, in the end, reduce rather than increase long term (50 years+) total costs to the rate/tax payer. Weird huh?
The UK needs to dump the Labour lite Conservative party but Farage is not a great replacement. His principals are flexible and like most politicians he'd rather hear himself talk than do anything. But still, Reform is an improvement over the hapless Tories and Marxist Labour. I hope England pulls out of its tailspin, not much time left.
He's U-turning on the U turn and doing other things like cosying up to the EU that make his recently found "anti-immigration" stance implausible. The man is a total incompetent with a tin-ear and he's going to kill Labour in much the same way the Sunak killed the Tories.
About the American Republican Party. The Washington Generals (the staged opponent to the famed Harlem Globetrotters) have more self-respect than does the GOP. I can appreciate that Donald Trump is not a "Republican". So what! Trump needs the GOP to pass his budget plan. So why is the GOP including such idiotic policies in the bill? As for Trump and his refusal to deal with policy details? Well that is what will sink his second term. The man needs better advisors who will stop bad policy from becoming law.
Why do cuts to loans and tax credits constitute a setback to US energy security? The fact that this is being reported in the Washington Post also gives me pause. From what I can see, Mr Trump is bent on unleashing US energy production including clean coal.
Regarding those "red state Republicans" hanging on to those egregious green scam subsidies, they should be ashamed. Those idiotic windmills and Chicom bird roasters are a blight on the landscape and should be and should be shut down and destroyed.
Since carbon and carbon dioxide are the basis for all life on earth, "low carbon" policies sound like a death cult to me. Still, nukes will power AI and much else if allowed.
Ultimately, the European oligarchs may appear to concede to obvious realities in their public statements, but all previous bad thinking and behavior will still weigh them down.. It's a lot easier to keep nuclear plants than to un-mothball, recreate or expand them.
". . . but even the French heavily subsidized their nuclear fleet."
Well yes, but we need to remember that most of the cost, especially those due to process delay, are government mandated - so they force the expenditure with the hidden left hand, and then publically subsidize the plant with the visible hand.
Of course the rate payer is on the hook twice here so it's not a breakeven - we pay once for the expenditures (plus interest/admin/taxes) on the power bill and once on the direct tax bill for the subsidies.
I do not think the people in Congress intend this - but the net effect of cancelling subsidies for Nuclear while keeping them for green waste might, in the end, reduce rather than increase long term (50 years+) total costs to the rate/tax payer. Weird huh?
The UK needs to dump the Labour lite Conservative party but Farage is not a great replacement. His principals are flexible and like most politicians he'd rather hear himself talk than do anything. But still, Reform is an improvement over the hapless Tories and Marxist Labour. I hope England pulls out of its tailspin, not much time left.
Regarding 2 Tier Keir and his U turns.
He's U-turning on the U turn and doing other things like cosying up to the EU that make his recently found "anti-immigration" stance implausible. The man is a total incompetent with a tin-ear and he's going to kill Labour in much the same way the Sunak killed the Tories.
https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/starmers-putting-reform-on-steroids
https://lowstatus.substack.com/p/strangers-in-a-strange-land
Time for Germany to declare Britain’s Reform party a security threat and unleash Germany’s modern day Gestapo.
About the American Republican Party. The Washington Generals (the staged opponent to the famed Harlem Globetrotters) have more self-respect than does the GOP. I can appreciate that Donald Trump is not a "Republican". So what! Trump needs the GOP to pass his budget plan. So why is the GOP including such idiotic policies in the bill? As for Trump and his refusal to deal with policy details? Well that is what will sink his second term. The man needs better advisors who will stop bad policy from becoming law.
Next up: Mark Carney as Don Cherry.