Former US President Donald Trump has claimed on the marketing campaign path for his re-election bid {that a} energy grid based mostly on wind energy will see TVs lower out if the wind isn’t blowing.
Talking at a marketing campaign rally in Iowa on Saturday, Trump mentioned that oil and fuel is “actual vitality” versus “intermittent wind.”
“‘Darling, I wish to watch the President on tv tonight. Honey, I don’t suppose we’ll be capable of, the wind isn’t blowing.’”
“So loopy,” he mentioned. “Costliest vitality there may be.”
The truth is, the Worldwide Renewable Vitality Company just lately reported that the worldwide weighted worth of onshore wind was $0.033/kWh final yr, “barely lower than half that of the most affordable fossil fuel-fired choice.”
Recharge reported earlier this yr how voters in Republican-leaning areas within the Midwest and South have been among the many largest beneficiaries of the incentives poured into the US inexperienced financial system below present President Joe Biden.
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This isn’t the primary time Trump has made outlandish claims about wind farms, with earlier examples even together with the assertion that they trigger most cancers. In September, he mentioned offshore wind generators “are inflicting whales to die in numbers by no means seen earlier than,” in addition to “driving the whales a bit batty.”
Trump famously fought a years-long authorized battle over the impression of offshore wind generators on views from his Scottish golf membership.
Trump is presently the overwhelming favorite to safe the Republican nomination going into subsequent yr’s presidential election.
He has additionally just lately posted slim nationwide polling leads in opposition to President Joe Biden, whose reputation has been hit by his dealing with of the warfare in Gaza in addition to issues about his age (he turned 81 at present).
Trump mentioned that below his earlier presidency the US was “going to be supplying the entire oil and fuel to Europe” and would have quickly been “vitality dominant”.
He additionally lashed out at Biden’s plans to ramp up gross sales of electrical automobiles, saying that they “don’t go far and value an excessive amount of.”
Underneath a future Trump presidency, he mentioned “gasoline engines is not going to solely be allowed however very a lot pushed.” He additionally praised hybrid automobiles, saying they’d get folks “additional than the sweet retailer.”
