Europe

America has become a torture chamber for smart people. Ooh the pain!

just so people are aware, this is FIFTH TIME the administration has done this: Source

If this sounds at all familiar, it's not your imagination. In March, the Republican administration announced that it had agreed to pay a foreign company almost $1 billion in American taxpayer money to abandon two wind farm projects that would have produced enough electricity to power more than 1.3 million homes and businesses [...]

At the administration's insistence, the company will instead proceed with different energy projects that will cost more and pollute more. [thanks to] President Donald Trump, many American consumers will pay for the privilege of paying more to turn on the lights, all while polluting our own air.

Then in April, it happened again, when the Republican administration announced plans to pay energy companies almost $900 million to abandon plans for two offshore wind farms. Two months later, Team Trump spent $765 million to buy back another group of offshore wind leases.

In late June, a fourth example emerged, when the administration announced plans to pay Duke Energy $129 million to abandon an offshore wind project off the coast of North Carolina.

With a fifth instance this week, the combined price tag for the developments is approaching $4 billion.

Both countries have governments run by very stupid, selfish manbabies and their cronies.

$1.2 Billion to make a project not happen sounds like a pretty costly subsidy.

Especially not on fossil fuels!

The US could switch off their nuclear powerplants to accelerate the transition to hydrocarbons.

The day's not over yet!

They'd already spent that billion on preparations. If they hadn't received their money back the shit would have hit the fan.

Exactly, European energy generation during an extreme summer has shown that renewables are the most reliable, until systems are in place for storage. The world can't rely on fossil fuels or even nuclear at the moment due to climate change.

Yeah man, that’s the point. It’s backward as fuck. It’s absolutely, mind-numbingly idiotic.

Why not use the $1.25bn and reinvest it into a wind park in the North Sea

Because the same brain rot makes the same kind of people go insane there, too, and then vote for corrupt "conservatives" that sabotage renewables for fossil fuels (read: for the juicy bribes the fossil industry pays).

Germany is just working on new legislation to prevent renewables where the grid isn't build up to handle it while also providing zero reasons for grid providers to build up the grid. Then they complete the package with no guaranteed feed-in compensation anymore.

Which obvious leads to a "sure you can build renewables, but a third party benefitting from fossil fuels has total control over your ability to sell your product"-situation were exactly noone will ever invest in renewables anymore. (PS: storage was also blocked by insane double taxation for years before a different government fixed that, and so instead the CEO of the record-holder in burying applications for connecting storage to the grid in red-tape -literal years for a process that should take a few days- was awarded with a job as Minister of Economy and Energy...)

They are doing exactly the same bullshit, they are just not as obnoxiously loud and boastful with their insanity as the orange moron.

Depends if I am an american or not. Hospital costs factor into this if you live in the home of the fee.

As a non american? I don't know $500K or so? I mean it would suck but not the worst thing to be paid for.