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Summary

Donald Trump criticized the U.K.'s renewable energy focus, calling to "open up" North Sea oil production and abandon wind turbines.

His comments followed reports of declining North Sea oil production and U.S. company Apache's planned exit by 2029.

Oil firms have reduced investments due to higher taxes and declining resources, while the U.K. aims to decarbonize its energy sector by 2030, expanding offshore wind power.

However, the offshore wind industry faces financial challenges, including rising costs and reduced investments, prompting debates on balancing energy security and green transition goals.

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[-] boaratio@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Was his family killed by windmills or something?

[-] Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 12 points 1 day ago

No but he vehemently opposed offshore wind farms that would be visible from his Scottish golf course

Unfortunately he was unaware that Scottish people are vindictive cunts, and now there's a ginormous wind farm off the coast of his poxy fucking golf course

[-] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

RIP Janey Godley.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

How about opening up America, and getting rid of Trump?

[-] Squeezer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I call for opening up Trump and removing his windpipe

[-] Etterra@discuss.online 17 points 1 day ago

He hates that wind energies didn't make him or his buddies disgusting profits.

[-] eran_morad@lemmy.world 198 points 2 days ago

Can’t wait to read the news of his death. Fucking wanker.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 15 points 1 day ago

I hope his grave will become a gender neutral bathroom.

[-] Vorticity@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Any grave is a gender neutral bathroom if you want it to be.

[-] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 84 points 2 days ago

The world will gain another public bathroom that day 🦀

[-] palordrolap@fedia.io 16 points 2 days ago

Sadly, I doubt anyone will get to use it any time soon. His faithful are our contemporaries and they won't let that happen.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 29 points 2 days ago

Its far easier to wait to piss on something than it is to guard it valiantly 24/7. We will make him America's Margaret Thatcher.

[-] ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

Voting Trump in is, IMO, Americas Brexit.

[-] Heikki@lemm.ee 37 points 2 days ago

Party on day 1

Day 2 travel to pay my respects by drinking all the soda and refilling the bottles with my piss.

On the 3rd day, go to the grave and dump all the piss I have accumulated and leave a fresh shit too

[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 42 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"America first!!!"

[focuses on genocidal russian needs before even being sworn in]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65309687

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 36 points 2 days ago

Still sour about windmills off the coast of one of your golf courses.?

[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 56 points 2 days ago

Senile lunatic tilts at windmills (though in a much less entertaining way than the original).

[-] Entropywins@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I read Don Quixote like 4 years ago and it was an amazing experience...laughed out loud multiple times and only one other book by George Carlin (his autobiography i believe) had done that to me although Stephen Colbert's I am America and so can you almost had me there.

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 98 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

The cunt doesn't want turbines purely because it "ruins" the view from his golf course at Balmedie (unsurprisingly, on the North Sea Coast), the utter self-centred closed-minded wankturtle.

The US has far bigger problems on it's plate, shit that's going on across the pond in a country he's got fuck all to do with should be lower on his list of things to worry about.

[-] swampwitch@lemmy.world 33 points 2 days ago

He doesn't want turbines because oil companies paid him $75 million to promote their interests.

[-] ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago

He wanted a billion dollars but apparently 75 million is almost as good. Art of the deal.

[-] Yodan@lemm.ee 6 points 2 days ago

If your daily cost of living is met and your lifestyle doesn't change between 75m and 1b what is the actual difference besides the paper in a bag/vault? It's the same reason I don't understand why billionaires always want more...elon having 5b and 500b doesn't change what it's like to live and travel and have access. Once you're over a certain threshold, having more doesn't actually mean doing more.

[-] iLStrix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I mean, Twitter cost him what, like 49 billion? I'd argue that was a good deal for him, considering what happened the past few weeks... But in general I agree with you. One person just should not be allowed to have that much money.

[-] Nounka@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

It is a high score in a game. You always want to improve it and be in the top 10

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 1 day ago

Yup, gotta get those numbers higher than the next person.

[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 6 points 2 days ago

Perhaps they did, but the whole view thing is nothing new either.

[-] ShortFuse@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Imagine the world we would have lived in if there were oil rigs there instead.

[-] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 1 day ago

I imagine the oil barons would find lucrative ways to keep Trump happy.

[-] Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 9 points 2 days ago

The more this dipshit is focused on petty nonsense like this, the less he's fucking up shit for real.

[-] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 2 days ago

Except that's not what's going on here.

Trump is very much brain to mouth. He just says shit. It doesn't even have to make sense.

Everyone else takes what he says and deals with the ramifications of "what if he actually does it". The problem with this approach is that it wastes our time and energy chasing his thoughts, while behind closed doors he does his real nasty shit.

All the while, the right just praises their god that they can be racist, transphobic, homophobic, bastards.

We need to get rid of the right.

[-] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 days ago

Oh no, not the golf course!

[-] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 59 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

"Windmills" cringe toddler level vocabulary

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago

Seriously. These people are so fucking stupid.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

Jesus fuck, is he a Bond villain?

I take that back, he's not smart enough.

[-] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago

He's a Captain Planet villain.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

We could really use Captain Planet right about now. Maybe the M Rated version, the one where he one punches oil executives in the face

[-] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 55 points 2 days ago

I started watching last time he got in with a kind of amused schadenfreude, mistakenly thinking that while he was obviously going to be a disaster for the US, he might be less terrible than Hillary for the rest of us.

When he was replaced by a grown-up, I breathed a sigh of relief - I’d not realised how mentally taxing it is to have someone so quixotic and deranged in that position, even from a continent away. This time he’s not even in office yet, and I’m already over the tension that his deranged little outbursts instil in me. Seeing his (and Elon’s) attention focus more over here is unnerving too, neither of them should be making decisions that affect anyone else, let alone in another country!

[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Oh man, just wait.

I dunno how closely you follow US politics, but Trump was largely reigned in by his cabinet and the rest of the party/govt the first time around.

That is not the case anymore. All he has is people egging him on, and he will follow up on outbursts more frequently.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 days ago

It's alarming just how unalarmed people are... Shit is going to get wild.

[-] wewbull@feddit.uk 18 points 2 days ago

He's degenerated since last time I'm sure. I think he's facing similar mental degenerative issues as Biden, but Biden is receiving medical care and it's being managed. Trump is being allowed to literally tilt at windmills because it's useful to those around him.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

If you do the opposite of whatever Trump says you should do, you can't go far wrong.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 21 points 2 days ago

I’m sure Farage will order the demolition of the wind turbines on day one of his Musk-ordained premiership

[-] sepi@piefed.social 15 points 2 days ago

Another day, another bunch of stupid shit trump said.

[-] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

The question is, what is he trying to distract from.

[-] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 19 points 2 days ago

There goes Donald Quixote riding El Russia and tilting at windmills again.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 days ago

Translation: trump wants you to be dependent on putin’s oil and gas

[-] r00ty@kbin.life 19 points 2 days ago

There's plenty of country in America for him to fuck up over the next four years. We have enough problems in the UK, we don't need him or musk to add to them.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Sure. They can just make more oil appear in the North Sea.

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[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

What a windbag..

They should just put him on a boat on the North Sea, floating in front of a couple of windmills. That way we can supply Europe with all the clean reliable renewable power we need, and then some.

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