Krugman Puts His Finger On Why Trump Is Killing Renewable Energy

[skews13]

Krugman mentions the usual suspects for the war on renewable energy — the fossil fuel industry and their well-oiled propaganda machine —

Campaign finance is part of the story. At this point, political contributions from fossil fuel companies go almost entirely to the GOP, while alternative energy favors Democrats.

Beyond campaign finance, fossil fuel interests, especially but not only the Koch brothers, have spent many decades promoting hostility to renewable energy and any effort to mitigate climate change.

He then gets to the heart of the problem — psychology and how the “fossil fuel cabal” exploits it.

Bear in mind that on the political right, wind and solar power are routinely condemned as “woke.” Real men burn stuff.

What this reflects, I believe, is a common factor underlying many right-wing obsessions. Why cling to fossil fuels in the face of a technological revolution in energy? Why valorize “warrior ethos” and bulging biceps in an age of drone warfare? Why build economic policy around a doomed attempt to bring back “manly” jobs?

At a deep level, I’d argue, it’s about nostalgia for an imagined past in which brawn mattered more than brains, combined with, yes, a hefty dose of insecure masculinity.

The world keeps declining to cooperate with these macho dreams. Tariffs aren’t bringing back blue-collar jobs. Setting out to “destroy the enemy as viciously as possible” — as Pete Hegseth said Tuesday — isn’t winning an easy victory over Iran.

And turning our back on the energy revolution, even paying the private sector to reject new technology, means both making America less secure and ceding the future to other countries that aren’t ruled by MAGA’s obsessions.

But that appears to be a price both fossil fuel interests and the Trump administration are willing to pay.

Paul Krugman puts his finger on why trump is killing renewable energy

Paul Krugman, in today’s article at paulkrugman.substack.com/…, dives into the question of why “the Trump administration remains deeply committed to killing renewable energy, especially wind power, and increasing America’s reliance on fossil fuels” and...

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[Manonthestreet]

hope you aren't a hypocrite and are carbon free

 

[Dante]

hope you aren't a hypocrite and are carbon free

What an idiotic statement. It's not about the average individual. People are trying to get all of society to pay attention. Your little game is pathetic

good gawd, you're an imbecile

 

[Dante]

Krugman mentions the usual suspects for the war on renewable energy — the fossil fuel industry and their well-oiled propaganda machine —


He then gets to the heart of the problem — psychology and how the “fossil fuel cabal” exploits it.

Paul Krugman puts his finger on why trump is killing renewable energy

Paul Krugman, in today’s article at paulkrugman.substack.com/…, dives into the question of why “the Trump administration remains deeply committed to killing renewable energy, especially wind power, and increasing America’s reliance on fossil fuels” and...

www.dailykos.com

Krugman is a National Treasure and he actually has a Nobel .. That has to bother the Stable Genius more than anything

 

[Manonthestreet]

What an idiotic statement. It's not about the average individual. People are trying to get all of society to pay attention. Your little game is pathetic

good gawd, you're an imbecile

Libs want to usher in energy poverty

 

[Zincwarrior]

Krugman mentions the usual suspects for the war on renewable energy — the fossil fuel industry and their well-oiled propaganda machine —


He then gets to the heart of the problem — psychology and how the “fossil fuel cabal” exploits it.

Paul Krugman puts his finger on why trump is killing renewable energy

Paul Krugman, in today’s article at paulkrugman.substack.com/…, dives into the question of why “the Trump administration remains deeply committed to killing renewable energy, especially wind power, and increasing America’s reliance on fossil fuels” and...

www.dailykos.com

For now. $5 gas changes attitudes.

 

[80zephyr]

Trump is against renewables because they do not work.

 

[Dante]

snippet:
When the FBI raided Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in 2022 and found that the former president had stolen hundreds of classified documents from the White House, stashing them in the club’s closets and showers, one question stood out: Why? Was Trump coordinating with Russian intelligence? Hiding proof of aliens?

As it turns out, the answer was more self-serving: Former special counsel Jack Smith concluded that Trump took the documents to help advance his business interests, according to case records obtained by Democrats and reviewed by MS NOW

 

[Zincwarrior]

Trump is against renewables because they do not work.

Don't tell Texas!

 

[JLW]

Krugman is right on. The fossil fuel industry has pent billions on climate disinformation and undermining the renewable energy industry. Many of those opposed to the renewable energy have been brainwashed and bamboozled by this false information. Follow the money. The human race will face and are facing the consequences of the fossil fuel industry lies.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Krugman mentions the usual suspects for the war on renewable energy — the fossil fuel industry and their well-oiled propaganda machine —


He then gets to the heart of the problem — psychology and how the “fossil fuel cabal” exploits it.

Paul Krugman puts his finger on why trump is killing renewable energy

Paul Krugman, in today’s article at paulkrugman.substack.com/…, dives into the question of why “the Trump administration remains deeply committed to killing renewable energy, especially wind power, and increasing America’s reliance on fossil fuels” and...

www.dailykos.com

Man Must Exploit Nature, or Man Must Exploit His Fellow Man

The Jolly Green Giant is driven by primitive and superstitious Nature Worship, plus deeper psychological disabilities.

 

[The Sage of Main Street]

Krugman is right on. The fossil fuel industry has pent billions on climate disinformation and undermining the renewable energy industry. Many of those opposed to the renewable energy have been brainwashed and bamboozled by this false information. Follow the money.

Follow Daddy's Money

The uninhibited development of nature creates class mobility, which used to be the story of America. The Preppy Progressives fear that most of all. They keep on getting in the way of the Commoners' manifest destiny.

 

[22lcidw]

Krugman is a National Treasure and he actually has a Nobel .. That has to bother the Stable Genius more than anything

Those awards mean less and less anymore. You might as well put them in cracker jack boxes.

 

[Rambunctious]

Renewable energy is a fallacy.... its not the future.... its filthy and costly and only fills landfills full of hazardous material...

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Krugman mentions the usual suspects for the war on renewable energy — the fossil fuel industry and their well-oiled propaganda machine —


He then gets to the heart of the problem — psychology and how the “fossil fuel cabal” exploits it.

Paul Krugman puts his finger on why trump is killing renewable energy

Paul Krugman, in today’s article at paulkrugman.substack.com/…, dives into the question of why “the Trump administration remains deeply committed to killing renewable energy, especially wind power, and increasing America’s reliance on fossil fuels” and...

www.dailykos.com

He's right. "Renewable energy" firms support dems because dems give them government handouts.

 

[JLW]

He's right. "Renewable energy" firms support dems because dems give them government handouts.

No one receives more handouts than the fossil fuel industry. Educate yourself.

President Trump’s Handouts to Fossil Fuel Industry Will Cost Public $80 Billion Over Next Decade

US taxpayers are facing double jeopardy thanks to a reckless and inhumane budget bill that hands billions of dollars to the oil and gas industry as it worsens the impact of climate change

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