Shoot… I would have not built a wind farm for only a million!
Paying not to build something feels like the most expensive way to do nothing.
Pay them 1 billion, they pay someone else 900 million to do it instead. +100 million profits
Again the ever quixotic Don tilts at windmills! Onward, Rocinante!
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!
Bold of you to assume they don’t see France as an enemy.
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
Just to be clear, this money was already spent by the previous administration on federal leases that were going to be used to build these offshore farms. The government will now be reimbursing the company the money it spent on those leases. Not quite just paying the company to not do something like the headline makes it seem. But that’s now $1 billion that could certainly be put to better use elsewhere that will be wasted paying this company back.
It’s also embarrassingly short sided for a myriad of reasons but that doesn’t matter anymore. We’re great again!
STOP GIVING AWAY OUR MONEY, FUCKO
Won’t anyone think about the oil?
Also, won’t anyone think about the fact that Trump literally makes energy policy based on the fact that he thinks wind turbines are ugly?
Hey I’m not going to build windmills either, where the fuck is my check?
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.
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
Is this notheonion?
