Featured Goodbye to solar, wind, EVs, heat pumps, and so on

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  1. Gokhan

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    It looks like the big beautiful bill is becoming a reality.

    It will make wind and solar energy installations very difficult.

    It will end the EV and heat-pump rebates in a few month.

    It will make the oil industry very happy.

    It will wreak havoc on the poor.

    Despite all the cuts, it will raise the budget deficit in never-before-seen amounts.

    If you are in the market for an EV, get it before the rebates end in September.

    https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/climate-energy/despite-last-minute-changes-senate-bill-deals-big-blow-renewable-energy-2025-07-01/

    What the senate Republican ‘big beautiful’ bill means for your money
     
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    3PriusMike Prius owner since 2000, Tesla M3 2018

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    1I agree with the sentiment that this is not a good idea. But how will it wreak havoc on the poor (unless their jobs are something like installing solar? The poor, generally, aren't the ones getting rebates for installing solar.
    About the only thing that would affect them is gasoline prices and heating costs.

    Mike
     
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    Oh, I was talking about Medicaid, food stamps, etc. with respect to poor per the second link I posted.
     
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    The state with the highest percentage of solar and wind energy is surprisingly, Texas.

    A large percentage of Teslas are manufactured in Texas.

    The corporate headquarters of Tesla is in Texas.
     
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    Unfortunately, it turns out that the attack on green energy and carbon-emission reduction does not end with the “big beautiful bill.”

    Trump now wants to shutdown all climate-research labs, including the main climate observatory in Hawaii.

    This is what happens when you elect people with insufficient education to run a government.

    So, why is the Republican Party promoting the oil industry again?

    https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5380169-noaa-climate-change-research-trump-doge-funding-cuts/
     
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    More poor in rural communities are supported in senior citizen facilities and medical clinics in red states than in the cities.

    The administration relaxed regulations on the coal industries and refunded care for black lung victims.
     
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    About 60% of the seniors in memory care or other homes are financed with Medicaid. That is their form of long term care insurance.

    FAFO!

    Just wait until those who voted MAGA are told that their grandma with dementia's government subsidy has been canceled and told to pick her up and to take her home.
     
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