Summary
Donald Trump criticized the U.K.'s renewable energy focus, calling to “open up” North Sea oil production and abandon wind turbines.
His comments followed reports of declining North Sea oil production and U.S. company Apache’s planned exit by 2029.
Oil firms have reduced investments due to higher taxes and declining resources, while the U.K. aims to decarbonize its energy sector by 2030, expanding offshore wind power.
However, the offshore wind industry faces financial challenges, including rising costs and reduced investments, prompting debates on balancing energy security and green transition goals.
The cunt doesn’t want turbines purely because it “ruins” the view from his golf course at Balmedie (unsurprisingly, on the North Sea Coast), the utter self-centred closed-minded wankturtle.
The US has far bigger problems on it’s plate, shit that’s going on across the pond in a country he’s got fuck all to do with should be lower on his list of things to worry about.
He doesn’t want turbines because oil companies paid him $75 million to promote their interests.
He wanted a billion dollars but apparently 75 million is almost as good. Art of the deal.
If your daily cost of living is met and your lifestyle doesn’t change between 75m and 1b what is the actual difference besides the paper in a bag/vault? It’s the same reason I don’t understand why billionaires always want more…elon having 5b and 500b doesn’t change what it’s like to live and travel and have access. Once you’re over a certain threshold, having more doesn’t actually mean doing more.
I mean, Twitter cost him what, like 49 billion? I’d argue that was a good deal for him, considering what happened the past few weeks… But in general I agree with you. One person just should not be allowed to have that much money.
It is a high score in a game. You always want to improve it and be in the top 10
Yup, gotta get those numbers higher than the next person.
Perhaps they did, but the whole view thing is nothing new either.
The more this dipshit is focused on petty nonsense like this, the less he’s fucking up shit for real.
Except that’s not what’s going on here.
Trump is very much brain to mouth. He just says shit. It doesn’t even have to make sense.
Everyone else takes what he says and deals with the ramifications of “what if he actually does it”. The problem with this approach is that it wastes our time and energy chasing his thoughts, while behind closed doors he does his real nasty shit.
All the while, the right just praises their god that they can be racist, transphobic, homophobic, bastards.
We need to get rid of the right.
Oh no, not the golf course!
Imagine the world we would have lived in if there were oil rigs there instead.
I imagine the oil barons would find lucrative ways to keep Trump happy.