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What a week for US President Donald Trump. It was a typical week, in fact. Quickly following up on his failure to restore the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, he attached his name to a uniquely disastrous July 4th celebration and meddled with the US Men’s National Soccer Team, thereby taking a personal share in the team’s humiliating 4-1 World Cup loss against the teeny tiny nation of Belgium. To cap it all off, new signs have emerged that his war on renewable energy is fizzling out to a lame conclusion.
Trump’s War On Renewable Energy Is Already Fizzling Out
Despite some major successes, Trump has failed, and will continue failing, to stop the inevitable transition to renewable energy. After all, various energy resources have come and gone throughout American history, with some clinging on around the fringes to various degrees.
Everybody chopped wood at the nation’s birth in the 18th century, and we don’t do that so much any more. Whale oil offered something new and different in the 19th century, only to fall by the wayside when the whales ran out and fossil fuels came in.
