Fortunately, fossil fuels are a stable and geopolitically risk-free source of energy.

Simply insane.

We truly live in the bad place

Sorry, I do not know how else to say this:

Well hopefully when Trump is gone NY remembers this and tells Pouyanné to screw when the put out bids to restart the project.

Do I have it right that the two projects that this deal kills off haven't seen any construction work yet? These aren't among the projects that the stop work orders were issued against in December, right?

I know this US government is fully-committed to fossil fuels and about as rabidly anti-renewables as can be, but I'm still shocked to see things like this. And I'm fully aware of Trump's Scotland experience and how that contributed or directly led to this, but, still, shocked. And then I'm also shocked because I know that at least half, if not a good bit more, of US citizens are in agreement with this strategy. Not sure how I can still be shocked but here I am.

And I say that not as some rabid renewables person. Just the insane binary thinking, regardless of the dollars and cronyism at work. There's zero room for nuance, which I guess is my biggest complaint about the world at large.

Aside: people who think climate change will be the death of us all, and sooner than later, I get it, and I fully appreciate you pushing for a cleaner and more livable world. At this point I'm just going to sit in the corner and hope you, and China, figure it out and then it spreads quickly to the rest of the world, which I think at this point is pretty much a foregone conclusion barring a nuclear war (will refrain from commenting about how the likelihood of that has ticked up the past couple of weeks in an area teeming with (sarcastically shocked this time!) fossil fuels).

The US, should it survive this administration, will be a case study in history. I expect Taiwan will make a treaty with China by the end of this year at this point.

Doesn't anyone understand how much soft power we lost in the last 7 days? The US just killed the leadership of a country it was negotiating with, failed to have a plan for after the attack for a scenario that has been known for 50 years (the Hormuz chokepoint), has lost the faith of regional allies who cannot risk losing oil and desalination infrastructure, has alienated its allies.

The US is worse off than before the action, is paying Iran and Russia to 10x more than before without further security guarantees, have alienated the Iranian public, have cementing Iran as the regional power, and have given the CNY a major toehold in energy markets.

The US is essentially an empty husk right now. It can't run airports.

I believe this has a lot to do with Coastal Radar IIRC. I believe that fact will be lost in the myriad of identify politics and finger point which the comment section is about to delve into.

At least it doesn't seem like a direct payoff. So in that sense the title is clickbait.

> redirect those funds towards fossil fuel production [...] > US interior secretary [says] the deal was worth "nearly $1 billion

The rest of the comments here... yep.