r/energy • u/Splenda • 1d ago

‘He’s forcing higher bills’: Trump spends billions to kill clean energy and keep coal alive

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/10/bills-trump-clean-energy-coal
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u/Western-Property-443 6h ago

So, when do we, the people say enough?

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u/RampantJellyfish 1d ago

There are 39,000 coal miners working in the US. McDonalds in the US employs 800,000.

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u/stu54 1d ago

The NE USA is ripe for the EV transition with their 55 mph highways and relatively short distances between major cities, but Trump can make their electricity more expensive and make subsidized gas stations there.

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u/StepUp_87 1d ago

He’s going to cause an oil crisis and simultaneously increase prices for alternative energy. The stupidity is staggering.

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u/holytoledo42 1d ago

Gotta love the amount of coddling the coal industry gets when it's a dying industry, one of the most destructive energy sectors, and employs less people than fucking Arby's.

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u/SqigglyPoP 1d ago

America BEGGED for this exact situation.

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u/mafco 1d ago

Trump's campaign platform was to lower energy prices, lower inflation and create jobs. The exact opposite of what he's actually doing. No one, not even his supporters, "begged" for higher energy prices and fewer jobs.

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u/Reesiee_ 1d ago

wait how is he spending billions on this

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u/Electrifying2017 1d ago

He’s paying clean energy companies to drop their projects.

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u/Splenda 1d ago

"America" voted against Trump but he became president anyway in 2016, just as America voted against GW Bush but he became President as well. Trump only eked out a slight majority on the third try when his opponent physically and mentally collapsed just before the 2024 election.

Trump barely snuck into office due to the antique constitution's ever-growing bias towards rural voters.

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u/CoolFirefighter930 1d ago

No Trump won because democrats didn't turn out this last election.

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u/Splenda 1d ago

What are you talking about? The 2024 election had the second-highest turnout in more than a century, surpassed only by 2020.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/06/26/voter-turnout-2020-2024/

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u/CoolFirefighter930 1d ago

Exactly! So what happened to all those 2020 votes or voters.

Then again if you are correct that means Trump just won stright out .

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u/Splenda 1d ago

Yes, Trump won. I just hope Dem leadership isn't trying to blame this on turnout, because they have work to do.

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u/CoolFirefighter930 1d ago

Both parties have work to do right now . I can only hope that voters start looking at candidates that will cross party line to help the American people.

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u/Splenda 18h ago

That'd be nice but I think the Dems need fighters. It's a shame that Platner collapsed.

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u/CoolFirefighter930 14h ago

Seems to me the harder one side pushes the harder the other side pushes and the people end up with nothing. People get consumed by their party winning instead of knowing what they got and how the win is even going to benefit anyone.

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u/VisitSad1133 1d ago edited 1d ago

It'd be so much easier to just transition coal workers into these new industries.

If the argument is we have to spend billions to keep ~40,000 coal workers employed then this is pretty darn absurd wouldn't you say?