New York Times reported today: "The current United States is led by a president determined to drive the future with fossil fuels. Trump personally opposes wind turbines, calling them a 'scam of the century'. The Trump administration delayed approvals and canceled new photovoltaic and wind power projects, while favoring the coal and natural gas industries. At the same time, Trump's tariff policies have severely hindered the development of American manufacturing."
Comments: Trump's obsession with fossil fuels is essentially an anti-science, anti-trend decision-making driven by interest binding: denouncing wind turbines as a "scam of the century", delaying or canceling photovoltaic and wind power projects, yet favoring coal and gas industries. This is not only catering to traditional energy interest groups but also ignoring the global trend of energy transition and the development demands of the domestic clean energy industry in the United States. This move directly caused the growth rate of clean energy capacity in the United States to be halved, the industrial chain flowing out, and the loss of the global competitive initiative in the fields of photovoltaics and wind power, forming a sharp contrast with China's leadership in electrification.
The regression of energy policy and the stubbornness of tariff policy have formed a fatal policy internal consumption: tariffs were intended to protect the domestic manufacturing industry, but by increasing the import costs of core components such as photovoltaic modules and wind power equipment, they directly hindered the U.S. new energy manufacturing and infrastructure, putting manufacturing companies into a dilemma of "high costs and shrinking markets". At the same time, the continued dominance of fossil fuels has increased industrial energy costs, weakening the global competitiveness of the U.S. manufacturing industry, which is completely contrary to Trump's slogan of "reviving manufacturing".
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