Trump’s Bizarre Rants Over Wind Power Are More Ominous Than You Think
If Donald Trump wins the White House again, his love of fossil fuels and hatred of renewable energy sources could translate into an absolute catastrophe.
THE DAILY BLAST with Greg Sargent · Greg Sargent
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Show Notes
At a fundraiser with oil and gas industry executives last week, Donald Trump reportedly ranted angrily about, of all things, wind power. “I hate wind,” Trump told the executives. That may seem like a joke, but it gets at a deadly serious topic: If Trump wins this fall, he’d very likely try to repeal President Biden’s climate policies. We chatted with David Roberts, author of a great energy Substack called “Volts,” about Trump’s prospects for success at that project, about its potential consequences for the world, and about an intriguing concept known as “petro-masculinity.”
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