meanwhile in Soviet Murica: Volna soutez na trhu je pro producenty ropy s 2% zdanenim "ohrozujici zvracenost"
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/opinion/trump-gas-solar-energy.htmlIn 2015, the Oklahoma oil magnate Harold Hamm got a glimpse of the future and didn’t like what he saw. Renewable energy, he realized, was a threat to the long-term dominance of oil and natural gas.
At the time, Oklahoma was facing a budget crisis and lawmakers wanted to increase taxes on oil and gas. To protect a lucrative tax break for his company, Continental Resources, Mr. Hamm waged a brutal campaign against the wind industry to convince lawmakers and the public that the tax breaks it received were the real problem.
In a 2016 commentary, he called the wind industry “parasitic” and a “drain on state coffers.” A coalition he helped create ran an ad campaign in which the former University of Oklahoma football coach Barry Switzer accused wind turbines of “blowing a hole in our state’s budget.” Nevermind that Oklahoma spent roughly four times as much on tax breaks for the state’s oil-and-gas industry. In the end, Mr. Hamm prevailed, and lawmakers kept the oil tax at a low 2 percent for the first couple of years of new production, while eliminating two tax breaks for wind-energy developers.
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Yet for the 79-year-old Mr. Hamm, whose privately held company is the 13th-largest oil producer in the United States, according to the consulting firm Wood Mackenzie,
with $2 billion in profits last year, a more competitive marketplace is threatening and ideologically abhorrent. He has taken his fight against renewables national — and made a project out of influencing President Trump.