Trump’s Back on the Wind Power Kick Again.
And this time, it’s in a room full of oil executives.
Ah, Donald Trump.
The obsession with wind power continues.
Who can forget his multiple rallies with the tangents on wind mills? Remember when he claimed they caused cancer, and killed the birds? Oh, it’s not over, and now he’s ranting about wind power in front of a room full of oil executives.
Maxine Joselow and Josh Dawsey with The Washington Post write:
“…“I hate wind,” Trump told the executives over a meal of chopped steak at his Mar-a-Lago Club and resort in Florida, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe a private conversation.
Trump’s comments reveal how he is wooing potential donors with his long-standing hostility to wind farms and pledges to halt this form of renewable energy if he returns to office. His stance poses a potential threat to one of the linchpins of America’s clean-energy transition, according to more than a dozen Trump allies, energy experts and offshore wind industry officials…
…And if Trump were to return to the White House?
“If I were in the offshore wind industry, I would probably be pretty, pretty nervous,” said a…
