Trump’s Return Brought Stiff Headwinds for Clean Energy. So Why Are Advocates Optimistic in 2026?
https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2025-12-21/trumps-return-brought-stiff-headwinds-for-clean-energy-so-why-are-advocates-optimistic-in-2026
Posted by arcgiselle
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I think after his little “we interrupt this program so that the president May whine” event the other night, he’s lost a lot of rizz and alignment. .
Why? Inertia. The human tendency to believe that what happened in the past was normal, anything now is an aberration, and things will go back to the way they were before.
The advocates are turning a blind eye to how we have been ceding the renewable energy lead we had to China and (to a lesser degree) Europe. By now, there are structural and competitive reasons that will make it extremely hard to catch up.
capitalism is now on our side. that’s why. renewables saves money.
Because it’s the cheapest and cleanest energy source we currently have on the planet, and businesses seek to cut costs. Grandpa fights anything technical or scientific because he can’t comprehend them with his limited IQ plus dementia (he can’t even understand how magnets work – high school physics). But companies will simply flatter him, give him cheap gaudy gold trinkets, and while he’s distracted congratulating himself, they’ll embrace the advances while he clamors to go back to the 1950’s – drilling for more oil (or steal it from other countries), and sending the USA back to the times of the horse and buggy, while the rest of the world leaves us behind. Double digit IQ Magas might approve, but not corporate America, they employ smart people. And they don’t plan to go bankrupt as a strategy, like all of grandpa’s companies do.