‘Deeply demoralizing’: how Trump derailed coal country’s clean-energy revival
www.theguardian.com
Biden earmarked billions for former coal communities in Appalachia – and his successor came and took it away
  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    251·
    12 hours ago

    This is what these people voted for/wanted. Not sure why they are complaining now.

  • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
    24·
    12 hours ago

    I’m extremely skeptical as to the impact on these investments in the first place. Retraining workers to install solar panels and drywall and building a solar panel installation warehouses in an area that doesn’t have the economic engine to buy this new construction seems extraordinarily backwards. It’s like a free market version of China’s ghost cities but worse because you don’t even get actual infrastructure from it.

    • hydrashok@sh.itjust.works
      11·
      10 hours ago

      If only there were a government program that incentivized and subsidized large scale energy infrastructure improvements to build economies of scale in the markets and increase affordability for all peoples.

      Oh wait, there was, until a certain president thought those folks should go back to digging and black lung.

      <trump I did that.gif>

      • ✺roguetrick✺@lemmy.world
        11·
        4 hours ago

        By energy infrastructure improvements you’re talking about building houses and installing solar panels in places that nobody can live in because the only jobs are building houses and installing solar panels right? Because if ridgeline wind turbines, rail electrification and improvement, and grid backbone power lines are what you’re talking about I don’t think that’s in the bill.