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Donald Trump criticized the U.K.'s renewable energy focus, calling to "open up" North Sea oil production and abandon wind turbines.

His comments followed reports of declining North Sea oil production and U.S. company Apache's planned exit by 2029.

Oil firms have reduced investments due to higher taxes and declining resources, while the U.K. aims to decarbonize its energy sector by 2030, expanding offshore wind power.

However, the offshore wind industry faces financial challenges, including rising costs and reduced investments, prompting debates on balancing energy security and green transition goals.

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[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 194 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Can’t wait to read the news of his death. Fucking wanker.

[–] Lauchmelder@feddit.org 83 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The world will gain another public bathroom that day 🦀

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, I doubt anyone will get to use it any time soon. His faithful are our contemporaries and they won't let that happen.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

Its far easier to wait to piss on something than it is to guard it valiantly 24/7. We will make him America's Margaret Thatcher.

[–] Heikki@lemm.ee 37 points 3 months ago

Party on day 1

Day 2 travel to pay my respects by drinking all the soda and refilling the bottles with my piss.

On the 3rd day, go to the grave and dump all the piss I have accumulated and leave a fresh shit too

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I hope his grave will become a gender neutral bathroom.

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Any grave is a gender neutral bathroom if you want it to be.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 58 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

"Windmills" cringe toddler level vocabulary

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 months ago

Seriously. These people are so fucking stupid.

[–] PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works 57 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I started watching last time he got in with a kind of amused schadenfreude, mistakenly thinking that while he was obviously going to be a disaster for the US, he might be less terrible than Hillary for the rest of us.

When he was replaced by a grown-up, I breathed a sigh of relief - I’d not realised how mentally taxing it is to have someone so quixotic and deranged in that position, even from a continent away. This time he’s not even in office yet, and I’m already over the tension that his deranged little outbursts instil in me. Seeing his (and Elon’s) attention focus more over here is unnerving too, neither of them should be making decisions that affect anyone else, let alone in another country!

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Oh man, just wait.

I dunno how closely you follow US politics, but Trump was largely reigned in by his cabinet and the rest of the party/govt the first time around.

That is not the case anymore. All he has is people egging him on, and he will follow up on outbursts more frequently.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago

It's alarming just how unalarmed people are... Shit is going to get wild.

[–] leftzero 54 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Senile lunatic tilts at windmills (though in a much less entertaining way than the original).

[–] Entropywins@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

I read Don Quixote like 4 years ago and it was an amazing experience...laughed out loud multiple times and only one other book by George Carlin (his autobiography i believe) had done that to me although Stephen Colbert's I am America and so can you almost had me there.

[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 41 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

"America first!!!"

[focuses on genocidal russian needs before even being sworn in]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65309687

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 38 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Jesus fuck, is he a Bond villain?

I take that back, he's not smart enough.

[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)

He's a Captain Planet villain.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

We could really use Captain Planet right about now. Maybe the M Rated version, the one where he one punches oil executives in the face

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 35 points 3 months ago

Still sour about windmills off the coast of one of your golf courses.?

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 26 points 3 months ago

If you do the opposite of whatever Trump says you should do, you can't go far wrong.

[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 20 points 3 months ago

I’m sure Farage will order the demolition of the wind turbines on day one of his Musk-ordained premiership

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 3 months ago

Translation: trump wants you to be dependent on putin’s oil and gas

[–] wildncrazyguy138@fedia.io 18 points 3 months ago

There goes Donald Quixote riding El Russia and tilting at windmills again.

[–] Prior_Industry@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago

The question is, what is he trying to distract from.

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 17 points 3 months ago

There's plenty of country in America for him to fuck up over the next four years. We have enough problems in the UK, we don't need him or musk to add to them.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Sure. They can just make more oil appear in the North Sea.

[–] banghida@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Are they even trying?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 15 points 3 months ago

He hates that wind energies didn't make him or his buddies disgusting profits.

[–] sepi@piefed.social 13 points 3 months ago

Another day, another bunch of stupid shit trump said.

[–] Humanius@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

What a windbag..

They should just put him on a boat on the North Sea, floating in front of a couple of windmills. That way we can supply Europe with all the clean reliable renewable power we need, and then some.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Was his family killed by windmills or something?

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How about opening up America, and getting rid of Trump?

[–] Squeezer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I call for opening up Trump and removing his windpipe

[–] makingrain@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

O&G production is in massive decline in the UK. Norway ramps up production to sell to Europe.

UK will just import more LNG from Qatar instead of drill more wells off the English coast and let its industry die. It's the coal mines all over again.