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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million,
which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?" -@CostaSamaras
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We will need a new word for corrupt, as these actions far exceed the meaning.
dalton99a
(95,048 posts)DFW
(60,375 posts)Take your pick
Passages
(4,433 posts)I like corrupidity (ha!). Don't forget straight up corruption and greed also. My guess is that it's support for extraction industries too. Feds just denied an request from Indiana to close a coal fired power plant.
Note that interior secretary Burgum's home state of North Dakota has the largest known lignite coal deposit, and is the second largest oil producer in the US. Just taking care of the home folk eh?
dickthegrouch
(4,608 posts)As usual when Greedy Old Pigs are in charge.
Passages
(4,433 posts)Attilatheblond
(9,142 posts)but those industries like to raise bloody hell about us having to give some subsidies^^ to fledgling alternate energy development
*tax breaks, legislation making it easier for those industries to take land very cheap for their own benefit, foreign labor laws to help those industries, grants and other financial incentives over the decades, plus the foreign policies and even wars fought on behalf of energy company interests. Lives, Treasure, and the environment sacrificed to Oil, Gas, Coal production.
^^ some short term tax breaks, some grants, damned little else to help
LakeVermilion
(1,622 posts)looking for fraud.
This is the Twilight Zone!
Passages
(4,433 posts)vapor2
(4,807 posts)mopinko
(73,843 posts)hoping someone can cancel this.
in2herbs
(4,496 posts)of a company in this manner? Do these companies have stock holders? If so, when was the meeting(s) held to approve this corp to accept govt money? If a corp accepts money from the govt it must be in furtherance of an intent stated in the Art of Inc . ..
We should have learned by now that we can't depend on Congress to police the unlawfulness of this regime.
wnylib
(26,349 posts)just as it was with Neocons and Bush Sr and Jr.
republianmushroom
(22,569 posts)Wounded Bear
(64,528 posts)Once on the initial contract, again for trump's cancellation, and again when we start them back up after trump is gone.
pat_k
(13,785 posts)... asking to borrow $50 to help her get through to pay day. She is struggling. So am I, but less so. I think she knows I would give her the money -- and would loan more, but she only borrows the smallest bit she needs because she doesn't want to run up a debt.
Anyway, no real point here, but the juxtaposition -- paying off corporations nearly a billion to UNDO beneficial projects against a sister who is so close to the wire, she can't afford basics week to week... A person for whom $50 fucking dollars is a lifeline...
It breaks my brain - and my heart.
questionseverything
(11,920 posts)His whole goal is to weaken us for Putin
travelingthrulife
(5,484 posts)Passages
(4,433 posts)Our system of capitalism as it is, is a disgraceful mess.
Justice matters.
(9,998 posts)Once again, those who can less afford the bills will have to pay back the debts plus the interests on the debts.
That's the Republicrooks way.
BurnDoubt
(1,844 posts)Republicans who were Republicans decried the notion of government making winners and losers. It rankled their sense of fairness, apparently.
Now, its all about who plays golf with you-know-who.
diane in sf
(4,251 posts)samsingh
(18,468 posts)The most corrupt administration in U.S. history.
vapor2
(4,807 posts)Wonder Why
(7,210 posts)BeneteauBum
(701 posts)Peace ☮️
IbogaProject
(6,037 posts)One thing to simply not make any further approvals but to pay money to get partially completed projects canceled is insane. The big use for wind power is that it tends to peak at times when the sun is less bright and they compliment each other well.
ABC123Easy
(333 posts)I'm SO tired of all of the "winning"