Team Trump uses tax dollars to scuttle renewable energy project (yet again) As one member of Congress summarized, “It is hard to imagine a more backwards use of taxpayer money.”

 For the FOURTH time…

The Trump administration on Monday said it would pay Duke Energy $129 million to abandon its plans to build an offshore wind farm off North Carolina.

It was the fourth such deal struck by the administration to throttle the development of offshore wind power, a source of renewable energy that President Trump has disparaged for decades.

The new agreement is regressive but straightforward: The Republican administration will reimburse Duke Energy $129 million, which is roughly what it paid for the lease under the Biden administration, and in exchange, the company will abandon the project and reinvest the money in what the Times described as “other sources of energy, such as coal and oil, favored by the Trump administration.”

This, while the country and planet bake under record temperatures, made worse by the burning of fossil fuels, as Europe and most of the world moves toward wind and solar investments, after Trump took one BILLION dollars from Big Oil, to further their profits and agenda.

The most lucrative investment of all time, not even counting the billions in windfall profits from Trump’s attack on the oil basket of the world.

Thanks again, you MAGA morons.