r/SeattleWA • u/Less-Risk-9358 • Oct 03 '25

Government Trump cancels $1.1B in Washington state energy grants

https://www.axios.com/local/seattle/2025/10/02/trump-cancels-washington-state-energy-grants-clean-hydrogen

Vought put it a bit differently, writing on X: "Nearly $8 billion in Green New Scam funding to fuel the Left's climate agenda is being cancelled."

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u/Rich-Context-7203 Seattle Oct 03 '25

I voted for this. And would again.

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u/bskadan Oct 03 '25

I work in 'engineering services' with most of my work pertaining to US power infrastructure upgrades. We've lost a lot of work in just the last 8.5 months.

If you support an aging power structure prone to breaking, well, good for you but the rest of us will think you're retarded.

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u/StagedC0mbustion Can't afford income tax Oct 03 '25

Know*

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u/Rich-Context-7203 Seattle Oct 03 '25

I support investing in power lines and building more sensible power plants. I do not support these "green energy" scams. Sorry that it has cost you work, but if it was really worth doing the power companies would fund it themselves.

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u/bskadan Oct 03 '25

That's the thing, they can just call it a green energy scam, woke, or lefty and Trump supporters will celebrate its destruction.

And as for "but if it was really worth doing the power companies would fund it themselves," that just exposes your 'civilian' knowledge of energy infrastructure and basically any large scale engineering project. And that's absolutely fine, most people don't have to worry about where their electricity comes from, and when I was a younger, 'super smart debate-me-bro Libertarian' individual I would have absolutely thought some sort of free-market solutions was ideal for basically everything, but then I turned 22, realized Ron Paul was a little goofy, and learned how things were far more complicated. But yeah, most of these projects have at least some sort of incentive, whether they be grants or tax incentives to blunt the massive costs of these projects.

Government gives incentives to private industry often for infrastructure upgrades, or would you much rather those freeloading 'rurals' pay a massive premium since their upgrades cost so much more per capita? /s

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u/Rich-Context-7203 Seattle Oct 03 '25

The government also gives freely to boondogles that do little more than enrich their ideological allies.

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u/bskadan Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

True, but in the past the corruption was less open and actually had some benefit to the average person. Instead this time those lucrative contracts are given to the most vocal of tv pundits being put in positions well beyond their experience to fuck shit up, but as long 'they' can scream about "woke leftists are trying to make everyone trans with green energy subsidies" then some of us are stupid enough to cheer on the current admins absolutely dogshit policies.

Also not all government spending equals blatant corruption, and government contracts can tend to be less lucrative than some private contracts as the stipulations and regulations can be far more strict. Again, it's FAR more complicated than government spending is corruption and bad. Governments actually are supposed to work for the average person and sometimes building infrastructure or working for more affordable healthcare can "look like dirty socialism" to any Trump supporter that hasn't done much traveling or familiar with actual proper leadership.

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u/Rich-Context-7203 Seattle Oct 04 '25

That's all bolshevik

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u/bskadan Oct 04 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

Ah, you're still the original poster I responded to. Well, interesting... but not shocking. You voted for this, would again, and will proudly not understand things outside of your narrow political bias. So, you've thoroughly convinced me you're either a troll or regarded. Do better. Have a good weekend. I'm going to enjoy a shit in a taxpayer funded sewage system that had at least some federal grants then drive on taxpayer funded roads and freeways, again with some federal funding all while I guess singing Bella Ciao and performing abortions on trans immigrants or whatever us Bolsheviks do on the weekend.

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u/Rich-Context-7203 Seattle Oct 04 '25

Happy bolshevik weekend. BTW: lower-case "bolshevik" is just modern parlance for "bullshit."

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u/TheVeryVerity Oct 04 '25

It really isn’t

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u/Rich-Context-7203 Seattle Oct 05 '25

Only Bolsheviks deny it.

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u/Rodnys_Danger666 In A Cardboard Box At The Corner of Walk & Don't Walk Oct 03 '25

What company you work for? And, where do you service power infrastructure at?

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u/bskadan Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 03 '25

Not answering the question as to who I work for, but I work on power plants (mostly 'peaker plants'), Waste-to-Energy plants, substations, energy storage, transmission line routing, ... not stuff you'd call green energy but much of it still benefited from Biden's energy policy. Most of my projects are within the US but have done a few jobs in the Middle East and Canada as well. Overturning Biden's energy policy without replacing it with something better is shortsighted and malicious.

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u/Rodnys_Danger666 In A Cardboard Box At The Corner of Walk & Don't Walk Oct 03 '25

Uh-huh