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Related: About this forumTrump just proposed ending all federal clean energy development
Trump just proposed ending all federal clean energy development
Joe Romm
Hed end all research on solar, wind, efficiency, batteries, clean cars, and climate science, too.
In the last week, Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to zero out all federal spending on clean energy research and development. And the plan he released would also zero out all other spending on anything to do with climate change, including the governments entire climate science effort.
You may have missed this bombshell because team Trump did not spell out these cuts overtly. In a campaign where the media has utterly failed to convey the policy stakes in the election, as Voxs Matt Yglesias explained recently, it appears only Bloomberg BNA bothered to follow up with the campaign to get at the truth of Trumps radical proposal.
Polling guru Nate Silver of fivethirtyeight.com fame gives Trump a one in three chance of becoming president. So I agree with Yglesias that we ought to seriously look at the implications of Trumps proposals especially since if Trump wins, hes all but certain to have a GOP-controlled Congress to back him.
Trumps newest energy plan
In announcing his New Deal For Black America on October 26, Trump promised:
I will also cancel all wasteful climate change spending from Obama-Clinton, including all global warming payments to the United Nations. These steps will save $100 billion over 8 years, and this money will be used to help rebuild the vital infrastructure, including water systems, in Americas inner cities.
Ill bet you never even knew the U.S. budgets $12.5 billion a year ($100 billion over eight years) on climate change, let alone wastefully.
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https://thinkprogress.org/trump-zero-out-federal-clean-energy-56cca794790#.sdqncdm7c
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Trump just proposed ending all federal clean energy development (Original Post)
babylonsister
Nov 2016
OP
Bet all those far left folks who are sniffing Trump's bunghole love this
NoGoodNamesLeft
Nov 2016
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NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)1. Bet all those far left folks who are sniffing Trump's bunghole love this
Hey, that's what they are rooting for...if he is elected they'll have no one to blame but themselves.
applegrove
(118,683 posts)2. Thie next millenia will not belong to the US then.
Historic NY
(37,451 posts)3. Were all going back to coal.
misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)4. Trump has millions invested in DAPL through Energy Transfer
Looking out for his own bottom line.
Everyone else is just in the way.
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)5. His and all the gopers who
don't give a flip because they too are lining their pockets. Infuriating. I don't understand, re: climate change and all the evidence that we're experiencing it, why they're not concerned for their kids and grandkids. Are they that cold-hearted? They got theirs so screw everyone else?