One problem with selecting a DEI Secretary of Transportation on the basis of his being ostentatiously homosexual is that the incompetence entailed could be a threat to public safety:

At least 33 safety recommendations originally made to place wind turbines farther away from critical infrastructure were overruled between 2023 and 2024.

Meanwhile under Buttigiggles, the DoT blew $80 BILLION of our money on diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, while airline safety deteriorated.

Maybe we shouldn’t attribute to incompetence what can be explained by leftist radicalism. As current Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy observes,

“Joe Biden and Pete Buttigieg put climate religion ahead of safety — blatantly ignoring engineers who warned of the danger of constructing wind turbines near railroads and highways.”

Thankfully, Trump has no patience for wind turbine nonsense.

The new federal regulations will mandate at least 1.2 miles between wind farms and train tracks or roads after an independent study found that the former interfered with radio signals necessary to operate transportation infrastructure.

Look for these new regulations to be repealed in the name of their weather gods if Democrats regain power. Otherwise, safety restrictions could put a crimp in the next inflationary Green New Deal spending blowout, which might be entitled, Inflation Reduction Act Part II.

On a tip from abcanc. Hat tip: RTM.

Wind turbines are monuments to moonbattery and ought to be abolished. Ursula von der Leyen, moonbat president of the European Commission, does not seem to be enjoying herself as Trump explains why:

To sum up, wind turbines are economically inefficient, require coercive subsidies, ruin scenic beauty, cannot be disposed of, are made mostly by our ChiCom adversaries, have no measurable effect on the supposedly problematic weather, kill birds (prominently including America’s national symbol), kill whales, have failed in von der Leyen’s home Germany, create noise pollution, are a con job, and consequently should not be allowed.

To the many reasons not to waste taxpayer money subsidizing hideous, unreliable, and inefficient wind turbines, we can add havoc caused by blades falling onto the highway:

A windmill turbine blade became loose Monday morning, crossing the median on Interstate 70 in Maryland and causing traffic to be backed up for several miles.

The blade fell not from above but out of a tractor trailer that was hauling it. Luckily, no one was killed.

Drivers traveling in the area could expect heavy delays as crews worked to remove the turbine from the highway.

Assuming it was damaged, off to the landfill it goes, where it will take up space forever because wind turbine blades are not biodegradable. Or maybe moonbats can persuade people to eat it.

On a tip from Wiggins.

They say personnel is policy. Ultramoonbat Michael Bloomberg demonstrates the principle:

The New York University State Energy & Environmental Impact Center’s fellowship—which Bloomberg’s eponymous philanthropic nonprofit provided two seed grants worth $5.6 million in 2017—has long placed and paid the salaries of officials in at least 10 state attorney general offices nationwide. Over the past two years, internal emails obtained by the Free Beacon show, the program has expanded to state-level public service commissions, often-overlooked agencies that regulate utility companies and permit energy infrastructure like pipelines and power plants. The commissions also implement state renewable energy standards that force power providers to generate electricity through pricier green sources.

Bloomberg might have been inspired by his fellow leftist zillionaire George Soros, who purchased higher crime rates throughout the country by installing left-wing district attorneys who side with criminals against their victims.

The center’s work in attorney general offices, where Bloomberg-funded fellows have participated in litigation accusing the fossil fuel industry of causing global warming, has prompted conflict-of-interest concerns over the use of private funding to drive public lawsuits. Its work in state regulatory agencies, on the other hand, is a new development—one that suggests the center and its funders seek to play a more active role pushing green energy development at the local level.

The purpose is to deprive us of electricity on behalf of their deranged ideology. But with a net worth of $106 billion, Bloomberg himself will stay warm in the winter and cool in the summer.

Look who Bloomberg’s fellowship managed to place on the Louisiana Public Service Commission:

Rula Thabata, a DEI activist, former policy fellow at a Muslim advocacy group, and recent graduate of Loyola University Chicago School of Law. A job posting for the role echoed the 2023 contract, stating that the [NYU] fellow would be sponsored by the NYU impact center and handle regulatory matters related to the “clean energy future, climate change, [and] energy justice.”

“Energy justice” means only plutocrats like Bloomberg can afford energy.

On a tip from R F.

Texas is major oil state. Yet thanks to green energy foolishness, sometimes Texans lose their electric heat in the winter, and some can hardly afford AC in the summer. During Biden’s War on Energy, they were discouraged from utilizing their fossil fuel and technological resources to produce economically efficient energy. Imagine if William Faulkner had to deal with the resulting energy bills:

Where you have moonbattery, you have theft. Consider wind turbines. The main point of them is to launder money stolen from taxpayers, a practice pioneered by the Moonbat Messiah. The turbines also steal each other’s wind:

As powerful and vast as the currents of air that wrap our planet may be, it turns out the effects of hundreds of turbines tapping into them aren’t negligible.

“Wind farms produce energy, and that energy is extracted from the air. And the extraction of energy from the air comes with a reduction of the wind speed,” Peter Baas, a research scientist at Whiffle, a Dutch company specializing in renewable energy and weather forecasting, told the BBC. As a result, the gust behind each turbine is slower, creating a “wake effect.”

It perhaps puts a very slight blemish on wind’s image as a limitless source of clean energy…

Only the most gullible liberals regard wind farms as an economically sane let alone limitless source of energy. As the hideous turbines spoil ever more of our coastlines and open spaces, they not only kill eagles and whales but block each other’s wind.

It’s as if no one ever thought green energy through before spending vast amounts of other people’s money on it.

On a tip from Steve T.