[defrost]

> Who is opposing renewable energy?

The current US admin:

Trump’s Multi-Pronged Attack on Renewable Energy https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?par...

but they are slowly being beaten back:

Trump admin abandons fight against wind energy as clean energy output surges - https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/trump-admin-abandons...

The Trumpian adventures in Iran have wrong footed his fossil fuel buddies and slowed his Don Quixote roll against giant scary windmills for now.

[matwood]

He hates wind turbines because he simply doesn't like how they look, and couldn't stop them next to one of his golf courses.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15l3knp4xyo

[jqpabc123]

And he hates solar because???

If you look at the overall picture, it's clear that he opposes anything not carbon based. And cost isn't a rational reason for it.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/20/trump-says-us-will-not-appro...

[recursive]

If there was an oil refinery that looked exactly the same as a turbine from the outside, I would bet that he would love how those would look. The root cause is something else. Hmmm...