Trump’s Budget Calls for a 70% Cut To Renewable Energy Funding
Here’s an article on Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. essentially ax its support of renewable energy.
Will this pass Congress? No, because many senators and representatives come from states whose inhabitants include parents and children, and who are thus forced to pretend to care about the quality of the environment, even if their huge donors (i.e., paymasters) don’t.
Then why should anyone be outraged about, or even interested in, this budget proposal? It’s because proposals are expressions of values. If, for instance, you or I were to propose that the ultra-rich could get even richer by destroying our planet, that would mean one and only one thing: we would be disgusting people.
Craig,
You really do have a talent for finding ever more obscure sources to support your anti-Trump rants, don’t you?
The 2020 budget proposals are neither unusual or unexpected. Exactly how long do you want the US taxpayer to continue subsidizing renewable energy industries?
Most of the programs that will be cut, should have been cut earlier. All government incentives in the form of Loans, subsidies, tax credits and guarantees, should contain ‘sunset clauses’.
Ben Jervey is an activist of the worst sort. A politically motivated, disingenuous advocate given to absurd fantasies would be a kind description.
There must be at some point in the development of any technology when it becomes economically and commercially viable without government support or an artificial marketplace.
There is a possibility the President will be re-elected in 2020, and an even stronger possibility of a GOP Congress. It all depends on the economy and the strength of the economic message.
US voters are getting used to the style and mannerisms of the somewhat eccentric President Trump, while support for his policies is growing among minorities.
I’m afraid renewable energy is very much yesterdays news. Each day, the US votes with their feet when they walk into an Auto showroom. Look at the profits generated by Ford from the sale of large pick up trucks and SUV’s.
Despite my passion for EV’s, I must concede to reality. US voters want budget reform and have grown inured to the hysterical baiting of the President by leftists. You can only cry “Wolf” so many times, before it becomes ineffective.
Eliminating obsolete programs such as the Obama era, Title XVII Innovative, Technology Loan Guarantee Programs, Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Loan Program; and Tribal Energy Loan Guarantee Program, will free up funds to convert the National Wind Testing Facility site into an experimental microgrid
capable of testing grid integration at the megawatt scale.
Funding will also become available to construct a Versatile Advanced (Fast) Test Reactor. Such a facility will enable development and testing of advanced fuels and materials for a next generation of commercial nuclear reactors.
Many of the duplicated and overlapping departments of the DOE, would become streamlined and more efficient, eliminating bureaucratic layers and making more funds available for research.
These savings can fund “advanced reactor technologies and high efficiency low emissions modular coal plants to align the R&D of novel materials, integrated sensors, and manufacturing processes relevant for advanced thermoelectric power plants “.
In addition the Budget allow for “Reforming Environmental Management Programs to Address the Challenge of Waste and Contamination from Nuclear Weapons Production”.
Included are 16 sites remaining to be cleaned up to meet environmental regulatory requirements. The Budget also provides $128 million to advance the initiative to accelerate
deactivation and decommissioning of selected high-risk excess facilities to protect human health and the environment, and to support the modernization of the Nuclear Security Enterprise.
All worthy aspirations I’m sure you’ll agree.
Perhaps if you read the actual budget, instead of a distorted second (or third) hand account you may find yourself surprised by by the content.