The Art of the Deal
2026-03-24 13:30 UTC
Replies (35)
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@rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-25 06:52
I would like to throw my hat in the ring and say that I will not build a wind farm for a mere $500M
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@BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 2026-03-24 13:54
Phew! Good! This WAR has Taught me the LAST thing I want my Tax Dollars going towards is Energy that our Enemies DONT Control! -Republicans!
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@Denjin@feddit.uk 2026-03-24 13:35
Hey, if we all club together we could get through the first few stages of getting our own windfarm approved and then Trump could pay us a billion to cancel and we all walk away with a share. Who's in?
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@areakode@riskeratspizza.com 2026-03-24 13:46
 Screams old, pedophilic con man.
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@ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 2026-03-24 20:01
I have an idea... Take the money... And then do it anyway. That's what he did countless times in his life
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@Lagviper@lemmy.zip 2026-03-24 22:37
This is beyond stupidity. China will be decades ahead in energy with these moronic decisions and eventually that’s also proportional to AI scalability.
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@slaacaa@lemmy.world 2026-03-24 13:30
> The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/23/climate/trump-totalenergies-offshore-wind-cancellation
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@brown567@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-24 18:40
Again the ever quixotic Don tilts at windmills! Onward, Rocinante!
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@AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 2026-03-24 13:51
STOP GIVING AWAY OUR MONEY, FUCKO
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@starman2112@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-25 14:27
>The Interior Department hailed the “innovative agreement” with the French energy giant and said, “the American people will no longer pay for ideological subsidies that benefited only the unreliable and costly offshore wind industry.″ I want these ghouls to not be alive anymore man
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@xia@lemmy.ca 2026-03-24 23:24
Shoot... I would have not built a wind farm for only a million!
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@Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 2026-03-24 14:40
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@BCsven@lemmy.ca 2026-03-24 13:45
Won't anyone think about the oil?
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@bearboiblake@pawb.social 2026-03-24 13:59
Take the money and use it to fund renewables anyways. Trump loves breaching terms of contracts, I'm sure he'd be cool with it.
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@WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 2026-03-24 19:22
From the guy that promised to lower the price of everything.
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@Blackmist@feddit.uk 2026-03-24 19:56
He really is still salty Scotland built some and spoiled the view off his golf course.
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@Fishnoodle@lemmy.world 2026-03-24 14:35
Hey I'm not going to build windmills either, where the fuck is my check?
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@Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-03-25 02:12
He heard it called a wind farm and thinks they produce wind there.
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@roserose56@lemmy.zip 2026-03-25 22:05
like who cares? let USA die if they want, not a problem for the rest of the world. When you start a war, don't expect others to help you.
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@Jaimesmith@lemmy.world 2026-03-24 22:05
Paying not to build something feels like the most expensive way to do nothing.
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@Squirrelsdrivemenuts@lemmy.world 2026-03-24 14:10
They are not really getting paid, they are getting the money back they paid for windfarm permits and in exchange they have to invest the money in oil and gas in the US.
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@purplerabbit@piefed.blahaj.zone 2026-03-24 21:40
***WHY IS THIS LEGAL?!***
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@Jiral@lemmy.org 2026-03-24 21:54
European here, I am fine with that.
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@Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-03-26 12:48
Accept. Then use the money to build an even bigger solar farm.
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@Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 2026-03-24 14:55
Now the French will learn that Trump **never** pays his bills, the check is in the mail so to speak Oh, it's not his money? I got nothing
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@Th3D3k0y@lemmy.world 2026-03-24 22:24
Pay them 1 billion, they pay someone else 900 million to do it instead. +100 million profits
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@beerclue@lemmy.world 2026-03-24 14:43
Is this notheonion?
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@roserose56@lemmy.zip 2026-03-24 19:18
Live your myth in USA! USA! USA! USA! Let's go Trump! Trump! Mid terms!!
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@Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-03-27 09:27
So hold on, doesn't this mean that companies can just threaten to build wind turbines and get a bunch of bribes? Any sensible businessman would immediately spin up 500 companies to do this as fast as possible.
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@rollerbang@lemmy.world 2026-03-26 13:22
> Instead, TotalEnergies will now spend the money on the development of a new liquified natural gas plant in Texas that will help export US LNG overseas to Europe, CEO Patrick Pouyanné said in a statement.
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@RedRibbonArmy@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-25 03:53
I guess it was being built with federal money or in federal land/sea? The states can still do their own thing and they should.
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@flandish@lemmy.world 2026-03-25 22:23
What a windy jerk.
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@Avicenna@programming.dev 2026-03-24 23:32
Is this the fine US is paying to UAE for fucking up in the middle east
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@flandish@lemmy.world 2026-03-25 22:28
what a windy jerk.
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@youcantreadthis@quokk.au 2026-03-24 16:46
If you pay american taxes you are guilty. Dont ruin literally everything. Tell irs to fuck itself.