Comment by Hamuko
7 hours ago
If that's the case then China is running circles around the US. They're actually investing in energy rollout whereas US is going as far as to pay companies to not build wind farms.
7 hours ago
If that's the case then China is running circles around the US. They're actually investing in energy rollout whereas US is going as far as to pay companies to not build wind farms.
Yup. And while new coal development has stalled they have no qualms about using a huge amount of it for electricity.
Dont forget that the US is attacking the energy supply from both sides. Oil, wind, etc. Yes to all.
They use coal for what they have not yet been able to replace with solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear because coal is their most abundant, accessible, and cheap domestic fossil fuel.
Exactly the same reason the US uses a huge amount of natural gas for producing electricity: it is their most abundant, accessible, and cheap domestic fossil fuel.
The US was doing a "yes to all" approach, and it still somewhat is due to market forces, but the federal government is trying hard to but the brakes on the solar and wind parts of that, and also trying hard to encourage more fossil fuel use.
Well at least Trump seems to have invoked the final inflection point for "we need to get off oil"