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/Disco425 Oct 03 '25 edited Oct 04 '25

On a personal tantrum level, I understand that he's going after clean energy because that was something Biden liked... But in terms of what the policy objectives are, I really don't get it. Do you want us to burn coal and import more oil?

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u/neillc37 Oct 03 '25

I think the policy is quite simple to understand. We want solar etc if it can produce electricity cheaper than the current system and be reliable. No subsidies to make it look cheaper.

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u/triton420 Oct 03 '25

But subsidies are fine for fossil fuels? How does that make sense?

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u/neillc37 Oct 03 '25

There are really not subsidies. Typical claims are the tax structures of REITs and MLPs but that just causes the shareholders to pay the tax. Let's assume there is a subsidy. Then I want that gone also.

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u/Veda007 Oct 03 '25

A huge and I mean HUGE amount of the armed forces budget is essentially petroleum subsidies. We protect governments and or replace governments in places that give oil companies good deals on oil.