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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/gop-budget-bill-poised-to-crush-renewable-energy-in-the-us/
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From the article: Far from the front lines of the climate crisis, 100 men and women in air-conditioned offices, 61 of them millionaires, are making decisions that could increase United States carbon dioxide emissions, and the warming of the climate they are driving, for decades to come.
In the latest political wrangle over energy and climate policy, a group of Republican senators over the weekend added provisions to the U.S. federal budget bill that, as currently written, would end clean energy tax credits at the personal level and at utility scale and increase taxes on foreign-made parts for solar power equipment.
Ending federal subsidies for most renewable energy projects, including residential heat pumps, for example, would affect thousands of projects that are already in planning or development and jeopardize future investments in manufacturing renewable energy equipment.
Friday, June 27, hours before the Senate released the latest draft of the reconciliation bill just after midnight, U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright claimed on the Department of Energy website that wind and solar are unreliable and that federal subsidies have made energy more expensive, although he did not cite any official reports or peer-reviewed studies to support that claim.
On the Department of Energy website, Wright wrote, “wind and solar brings us the worst of two worlds: less reliable energy delivery and higher electric bills …If sources are truly economically viable, let’s allow them to stand on their own,” he wrote, ignoring that the fossil fuel industry gets annual subsidies of about $20 billion annually, according to estimates by Oil Change International, a nonprofit watchdog group.
But hundreds of studies show that renewable energy is much less expensive and, in a well-planned grid, can make energy supplies more secure.
“The proposed GOP tax on wind and solar is a danger to the United States,” Mark Z. Jacobson, a Stanford University renewable energy researcher who has authored numerous studies on wind and solar power, wrote via email.
Republicans: “Windmills are going to ruin our view on the shore”
Also Republicans: “Let’s bulldoze our national forests and open up the attic for new oil wells”
Funniest part of all this
They’re going to PRAISE and WORSHIP the next folks that un-fk this mess while those that helped start this are just names in the wind….gone. I don’t see anyone being remembered for doing sht like this.
Well, if nothing else, at least it appears we have found the Great Filter…
American oil is more expensive to drill for than to sell. It was always a game to delay the inevitable
I just drove from the west coast to Chicago, through Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, Iowa then Illinois.
Everyone of those red states(except Utah) is absolutely covered in windmills. I think I saw a sign in Nebraska promoting a $1.3billion windmill farm project that was underway.
Kansas is windmills and solar all along i70.
This will hurt red states more than the blue ones.
If the buying party is wealthy enough to afford green solutions then they don’t need my money to pay for it.
If the solutions are too expensive without my money, they are unsustainable and not a good solution.
What’s funny, is that this is all for completely short term profits, and will crush the same people that will benefit form this in the next 5010 years in 20-30 years. We’re already at a point where renewables are cheaper than oil/gas. The only thing that’s left is mass adoption, and that’s already happening. The ONLY thing that this will accomplish is to make the US poor in a generation because were are actively giving up technological leadership for the current industrial revolution. This is like investing in horses when the Model T is already rolling off the production line.