{"id":162,"date":"2026-03-24T12:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T13:00:10","slug":"windsanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/windsanity\/","title":{"rendered":"Windsanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among all of the insane things happening, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-offshore-wind-energy-climate-totalenergies-interior-092eeeacc5d09730d4e20a95d7df7de1\">this<\/a> is among the most insane:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Trump administration will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from two U.S. offshore wind leases as the administration ramps up its campaign against offshore wind and other renewable energy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously? The same administration that has created the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/middle-east\/global-energy-shock-war-iran-ukraine-iea-b2943669.html\">worst energy crisis<\/a> in decades is also paying billions of dollars to stop the production of green energy. Oh, and let\u2019s not forget that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/stories\/2026\/02\/2026-global-risks-report-environmental-risks-remain-urgent\/\">the world is burning up<\/a> because of our consumption of fossil fuels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can\u2019t make this up. If you did, no one would believe it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among all of the insane things happening, this is among the most insane: The Trump administration will pay $1 billion to a French company to walk away from two U.S. offshore wind leases as the administration ramps up its campaign against offshore wind and other renewable energy. Seriously? The same administration that has created the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theimbroglio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}