President Donald Trump’s vendetta against offshore wind power is characterized chiefly by its oddities. These range from the president’s pet theories about the technology’s supposed hazards to his attempts to shut down nearly built projects. Now, he appears to be escalating to the truly bizarre, with a reported offer to pay an offshore wind developer almost $1 billion in order to simply walk away.
To be fair, who could have ever predicted that an expensive, finite, geographically remote resource our economy has been lobbied to be dependent on would ever be more at risk of cost or cause more problems than the infinite free ones available in our sky, air, water and even atoms?