In Ecclesiastes, we learn that “To everything there is a season, and a time for every event under Heaven.”
I’m no theologian, but I think that one of the key messages of that verse is that things happen according to the good Lord’s timing, not man’s, and we shouldn’t assume we can necessarily meddle with the natural rhythm of the universe.
There is no better example of this problem than the world of energy.
From the dawn of time, mankind used human muscle to farm, to hunt, to build. Gradually, we learned to use wood and then coal for heating and cooking, then eventually, we harnessed animals to pull our plows, drive our carriages and grind our grain at the mill.
We eventually learned to use windmills for the grinding of grain, then harnessed the power of rivers for the lumber industry, and finally, in modern times, we mastered the use of petroleum and natural gas, then we finally learned to split the atom and get power from nuclear fission. Amazing progress.
And what has the modern Left done with that timeline? They’ve proudly attempted to reverse it; shuttering nuclear power plants, banning the drilling of oil and the processing of natural gas, destroying the standards of living in energy-rich nations like Great Britain, Canada, German and the United States.
And for what? So that they can return us to dependence on sun and wind, sources which can never power a modern economy – or at least, certainly not yet, not with the current state of development of such technologies.
But the Left believes that they are the rulers of timelines, that they can decree when technology is ripe, regardless of the science, the research, or the facts on the ground.
Look, for example, at the story of the BP-JERA joint venture, and their Beacon Wind project off the coast of Massachusetts.
The two energy giants – BP of England and Jera of Japan – are committed to “net zero,” the anti-scientific fantasy that carbon dioxide, one of the foundations of life on earth, is so destructive that mankind must stop producing it, as quickly as possible.
Their joint venture’s business model was to suck up as many forms of government subsidies as possible in the development and installation of wind farms in that Atlantic ocean. Announced in 2024, they were shocked when 2025 arrived on the scene, and reality smacked their business plan in the face.
The Trump Administration recognized certain truths, among them
- That offshore windmill products are terribly dangerous to marine and airborne life, to the fishing industry, and to transportation.
- That offshore windmill production is so costly it can never – NEVER – be a net producer of energy, cost-effectively on its own, once the layers of visible and invisible government subsidies are stripped away.
- That the green energy business functions as a vehicle to transfer American money to the Chinese government, making a lot of money for corrupt facilitators along the way.
- That the United States desperately needs real energy production growth – which can never be accomplished with wind or solar – so what we need to do is double down on energy that works: coal, oil, natural gas and nuclear.
The Trump administration has therefore struck down the EPA’s outrageously fictional Endangerment Finding, which has powered so much destructive policy for the past sixteen years, and has accordingly voided many other such policies and mandates that were clearly misguided, unfounded, and unconstitutional.
Considering all this – the overwhelming evidence that offshore wind farms are not only not the answer, but are in fact a costly, destructive problem in their own right – it is understandable that the BP-JERA project saw the writing on the wall and announced the Beacon Wind project’s termination (or at least, indefinite postponement).
But what is disturbing, from a public policy perspective, is the reason given for the termination.
Did they say “We have come to the conclusion that the science behind this technology is fraudulent”? Oh no.
Did they say “We have realized that offshore wind production is dangerous, inefficient, and a fatheaded waste of money, so we are abandoning the concept out of concern for our shareholders’ best interests”? Of course not.
According to press reports, the BP-JERA joint venture said in a written statement, “The U.S. is a market with significant long-term potential for offshore wind, which we still believe can play a key role in the country’s energy transition.”
They do? They still believe that? After all we now know about the made-up hockey stick chart, the years of forged climate data, the decades of emails showing clear collusion to falsify data exposed in recent years by whistleblowers?
Well, to be honest, it is hard to shake a religion.
And that’s what the cult of global warming has become for many, perhaps most, of its advocates. It’s a religion to them.
Despite all evidence, despite all common sense, perhaps because they lack any real religion in their lives, they view it as holy gospel that carbon dioxide, the harmless gas that every human and animal exhales every moment of our lives, the very product that feeds all the plant life on earth, is somehow driving us all to our doom.
It’s ridiculous – but enough of them believe it that they can’t tell the truth.
So their publicists can’t bring themselves to say “We’re abandoning this project because it makes no sense at all.” They have to pay homage to the fiction.
Reuters did their part to help the climate change narrative, by reporting that the offshore wind power industry in the United States “has been hit by soaring costs from supply chain disruption, inflation and the impact of U.S. President Donald Trump’s opposition to such projects.”
Ah. So it’s not that the business model is a balloon full of ambient air and a scam to collect as many local, state and federal subsidies as possible to make an inefficient idea look like a moneymaker. Oh no, it’s supply chain disruptions and a hostile president in the White House.
Well, there certainly are a couple of supply chain disruptions in the world: the Panama Canal was more expensive than usual for a year because of drought, and the Suez Canal has been shut down for two years because of islamofascist terrorists. But oddly enough, neither of these supply chain disruptions really had anything to do with the business model of a Massachusetts Bay wind farm.
The opposition of the Trump administration is nearer the mark, but not because of any personal hostility; it’s because the Trump administration is applying business principles to all projects planned for waters or lands under federal jurisdiction.
And what has the Trump administration realized? That tons of green energy scams were created during the years of the Biden-Harris regime specifically to suck up the countless billions of dollars in grants and unsecured loans that Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm was shoveling out of the federal government, right down to the last day of that corrupt regime.
The Trump administration just applied common sense and put an end to this gravy train of taxpayer money for corrupt businesses.
But the press isn’t going to tell that truth. So the press happily continues to serve as the lapdog for the green energy industry, reporting that these many unjustifiable projects are just being cancelled or postponed because of temporary issues like politics or inflation or logistics challenges or international trade disruptions – and planting the idea that at some future date – when President Trump is no longer in office perhaps – these hundreds of billion-dollar Three Card Monte games will again be in play, enriching the connected at the expense of the common man, once again.
Heaven forbid.
Copyright 2025 John F. Di Leo
John F. Di Leo is a Chicagoland-based international transportation and trade compliance trainer and consultant. President of the Ethnic American Council in the 1980s and Chairman of the Milwaukee County Republican Party in the 1990s, his book on vote fraud (The Tales of Little Pavel), his political satires on the Biden-Harris administration (Evening Soup with Basement Joe, Volumes I, II, and III), and his first nonfiction book, “Current Events and the Issues of Our Age,” are all available in either eBook or paperback, only on Amazon.
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