JD Vance, born and raised in Middletown, has repeatedly referred to clean energy projects as a “scam”. As an Ohio senator, his election campaigns were partly bankrolled by fossil fuel companies.
The move follows the Trump-Vance administration’s ending of a $500m grant for the facility to replace the coke-burning infrastructure with a hydrogen-powered furnace that, by some accounts, would have resulted in the Middletown facility becoming the lowest greenhouse gas-emitting steel plant in the world.
Instead, residents could find themselves locked into decades more of dirty, chemical-polluted environmental risks. Despite the Biden administration’s attempts at cleaning up the steel industry, last year Goncalves told Politico: “I believe what Trump’s trying to do is for the betterment of the country.”
has repeatedly referred to clean energy projects as a “scam”.
On the one hand I fail to see how something that you pay for once and continue to get a return from is more of a scam than being perpetually reliant on a finite supply of fuel.
Like… you make a wind farm, or a solar farm…and you have electricity for a looooong time with just some simple maintenance.
But…I can see how he can get people to side with him on the “it’s a scam” part. There are a lot of scams out in the home solar market. That’s not a fault of the solar panels, though.
But…I can see how he can get people to side with him on the “it’s a scam” part. There are a lot of scams out in the home solar market. That’s not a fault of the solar panels, though.
Whose fault is it, though?
The answer is, it’s the fault of eroding consumer protection regulations and increasing government corruption, and Vance’s party is the one perpetrating it.
Yeah I was going to allude to that but got distracted. It’s entirely due to that.
Whenever a consumer gets screwed, you can bet that a conservative profits from it.
Wowsers!
Anything good for the people just won’t do with these fuckers.
