New MAGA tax on renewable energy - WHY?

[Anonymous]

The BBB includes not only rolling back Biden-era subsidies for solar and wind power, but new taxes intended to kneecap those rapidly growing industries. Much of the solar and wind production in the US is in red states like Texas. Why is it "winning" to kneecap an industry that's providing cheaper energy, in exchange for oil and gas that are becoming relatively more and more expensive?
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/01/trump-clean-energy-tax-credits-renewables

[Anonymous]

Because Trump wants his oil baron friends to make more money.

[Anonymous]

No real reason, OP. Just crankiness.

[Anonymous]

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., the Budget Committee chairman, who released the 940-page bill, said he doesn't know where that provision came from.

"It's a secret, I guess," Graham told NBC News on Monday evening. "I don't know where it came from."

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was baffled by the provision, saying the excise tax "just came about" like it was "airdropped" into the bill before the vote Saturday to proceed.

"It wasn’t part of any consideration," she said. "It’s like, surprise! It’s Saturday night. And we looked at it like, where did this come from?"

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/megabill-mystery-new-solar-wind-tax-surprise-republican-senators-rcna216120

[Anonymous]

If you think about how to destroy the USA from within, Trump is following the playbook to a tee.

Gives Russia and Saudi Arabia a short term win and China a long term win.

America First, indeed.

[Anonymous]

I guess solar and wind are too woke

[Anonymous]

Who wrote this bill and knows what's actually in it??

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who wrote this bill and knows what's actually in it??

Grok may have helped write some of it. But it's generally pretty decent at its job when Musk isn't messing with it. Although all AI hallucinates, so maybe that's what happened...

[Anonymous]

If the energy source can't compete without favorable treatment then it sucks. Tax it like we tax oil and see how it does.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the energy source can't compete without favorable treatment then it sucks. Tax it like we tax oil and see how it does.

We subsidize oil.

[Anonymous]

Solar and wind suck. The way you can tell us that Martha's vineyard and Cape cod fight to the death to keep them out.

When Aspen, Martha's vineyard and the Hamptons get wind farms and when jets take off with batteries then I'll consider them worth looking into.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Solar and wind suck. The way you can tell us that Martha's vineyard and Cape cod fight to the death to keep them out.

When Aspen, Martha's vineyard and the Hamptons get wind farms and when jets take off with batteries then I'll consider them worth looking into.

Do you have a pilot's license? If not, then you shouldn't drive your car.

...Does that make sense? Nope.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Solar and wind suck. The way you can tell us that Martha's vineyard and Cape cod fight to the death to keep them out.

When Aspen, Martha's vineyard and the Hamptons get wind farms and when jets take off with batteries then I'll consider them worth looking into.

Wind farms are going in up and down the Atlantic and across the plains and in mountains areas including Western PA and western MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Solar and wind suck. The way you can tell us that Martha's vineyard and Cape cod fight to the death to keep them out.

When Aspen, Martha's vineyard and the Hamptons get wind farms and when jets take off with batteries then I'll consider them worth looking into.

Didn't DOGE just scrap the turbine's off the coast of Martha's Vineyard?

Oh.

[Anonymous]

This is unreal that there are provisions that are mysteries. I know about schoolhouserockf^ckall about bills, but I would think every bit would be tagged with the sponsor and if there's not a source to target mapping it gets dropped.