Summary

Donald Trump criticized the U.K.'s renewable energy focus, calling to “open up” North Sea oil production and abandon wind turbines.

His comments followed reports of declining North Sea oil production and U.S. company Apache’s planned exit by 2029.

Oil firms have reduced investments due to higher taxes and declining resources, while the U.K. aims to decarbonize its energy sector by 2030, expanding offshore wind power.

However, the offshore wind industry faces financial challenges, including rising costs and reduced investments, prompting debates on balancing energy security and green transition goals.

      • palordrolap
        link
        fedilink
        163 months ago

        Sadly, I doubt anyone will get to use it any time soon. His faithful are our contemporaries and they won’t let that happen.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      373 months ago

      Party on day 1

      Day 2 travel to pay my respects by drinking all the soda and refilling the bottles with my piss.

      On the 3rd day, go to the grave and dump all the piss I have accumulated and leave a fresh shit too

      • vortic
        link
        fedilink
        English
        63 months ago

        Any grave is a gender neutral bathroom if you want it to be.

  • PhobosAnomaly
    link
    fedilink
    English
    98
    edit-2
    3 months ago

    The cunt doesn’t want turbines purely because it “ruins” the view from his golf course at Balmedie (unsurprisingly, on the North Sea Coast), the utter self-centred closed-minded wankturtle.

    The US has far bigger problems on it’s plate, shit that’s going on across the pond in a country he’s got fuck all to do with should be lower on his list of things to worry about.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      343 months ago

      He doesn’t want turbines because oil companies paid him $75 million to promote their interests.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        133 months ago

        He wanted a billion dollars but apparently 75 million is almost as good. Art of the deal.

        • @[email protected]
          link
          fedilink
          English
          63 months ago

          If your daily cost of living is met and your lifestyle doesn’t change between 75m and 1b what is the actual difference besides the paper in a bag/vault? It’s the same reason I don’t understand why billionaires always want more…elon having 5b and 500b doesn’t change what it’s like to live and travel and have access. Once you’re over a certain threshold, having more doesn’t actually mean doing more.

          • @[email protected]
            link
            fedilink
            English
            33 months ago

            I mean, Twitter cost him what, like 49 billion? I’d argue that was a good deal for him, considering what happened the past few weeks… But in general I agree with you. One person just should not be allowed to have that much money.

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      93 months ago

      The more this dipshit is focused on petty nonsense like this, the less he’s fucking up shit for real.

      • @[email protected]
        link
        fedilink
        English
        273 months ago

        Except that’s not what’s going on here.

        Trump is very much brain to mouth. He just says shit. It doesn’t even have to make sense.

        Everyone else takes what he says and deals with the ramifications of “what if he actually does it”. The problem with this approach is that it wastes our time and energy chasing his thoughts, while behind closed doors he does his real nasty shit.

        All the while, the right just praises their god that they can be racist, transphobic, homophobic, bastards.

        We need to get rid of the right.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    563 months ago

    Senile lunatic tilts at windmills (though in a much less entertaining way than the original).

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      93 months ago

      I read Don Quixote like 4 years ago and it was an amazing experience…laughed out loud multiple times and only one other book by George Carlin (his autobiography i believe) had done that to me although Stephen Colbert’s I am America and so can you almost had me there.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    553 months ago

    I started watching last time he got in with a kind of amused schadenfreude, mistakenly thinking that while he was obviously going to be a disaster for the US, he might be less terrible than Hillary for the rest of us.

    When he was replaced by a grown-up, I breathed a sigh of relief - I’d not realised how mentally taxing it is to have someone so quixotic and deranged in that position, even from a continent away. This time he’s not even in office yet, and I’m already over the tension that his deranged little outbursts instil in me. Seeing his (and Elon’s) attention focus more over here is unnerving too, neither of them should be making decisions that affect anyone else, let alone in another country!

    • @[email protected]
      link
      fedilink
      English
      193 months ago

      He’s degenerated since last time I’m sure. I think he’s facing similar mental degenerative issues as Biden, but Biden is receiving medical care and it’s being managed. Trump is being allowed to literally tilt at windmills because it’s useful to those around him.

    • @[email protected]
      cake
      link
      fedilink
      English
      17
      edit-2
      3 months ago

      Oh man, just wait.

      I dunno how closely you follow US politics, but Trump was largely reigned in by his cabinet and the rest of the party/govt the first time around.

      That is not the case anymore. All he has is people egging him on, and he will follow up on outbursts more frequently.

  • Diplomjodler
    link
    fedilink
    English
    273 months ago

    If you do the opposite of whatever Trump says you should do, you can’t go far wrong.

  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    213 months ago

    I’m sure Farage will order the demolition of the wind turbines on day one of his Musk-ordained premiership

  • r00ty
    link
    fedilink
    193 months ago

    There’s plenty of country in America for him to fuck up over the next four years. We have enough problems in the UK, we don’t need him or musk to add to them.