France’s Le Pen says she will take down wind turbines if she is elected

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  1. There goes your green vote.

    This is why my personal strategy against idiots is to not do anything; inevitably they’ll start screwing themselves over simple because they’re idiots.

  2. Has she had a stroke?

    What mandate does the French president have to take down wind turbines anyway? I’m sure a massive chunk of them are private.

  3. Ending funding for solar and wind is one thing, seeing as they are supposed to be economically attractive on their own according to some and [French nuclear is already much lower carbon than either](https://i.imgur.com/ilpcTQP.png), taking down existing installations is another completely.

  4. Oh my god when will we get rid of the Le Pen family ? These morons have been polluting France’s politics for decades.

  5. What what… why?

    I mean, I kind of get being against constructing new ones, but taking down existing ones is just dumb spite to stick it to the libs.

  6. Prediction in the unfortunate event that this woman wins the election:

    – All the proposals for which the French vote for her would not happen: measures to guarantee jobs for the French, anti-immigration, more protectionism, etc. Or if they happen they will not have the result you think (look at UK or USA)

    – All the bullshit that we laugh at now and that you think she will not dare to carry out (because there are more important things) will be the ones she will do, because if she proposes it, it is easier to knock down turbines than, for example, create jobs. Just put some crazy taxes on wind energy and they will bring them down themselves

    This is coming from someone who voted for Mariano Rajoy because he was the one who was going to get us out of the 2008 crisis and what he did was modify the abortion law and increase the hours of religion classes lol

  7. Well another great reason to not vote for her. I’m clearly pro-nuclear power but removing existing wind turbines would be just plain stupid.

  8. While not on the same level of stupidity, in Hungary too for whatever reason Orbán’s governement is vehemently anti-wind power (though supporting solar).

    A few years back they made a law that mandated where can one build a new wind power plant. According to the text, a new plant can only be established at least 12km away from any settlement. Here’s a [handy map](https://alfahir.hu/sites/default/files/styles/article_node/public/indexfoto/12km.png?itok=s-694JIN) to guide investors. Red means not allowed, black is settlements, white is allowed.

  9. Why are right wingers both in Europe and USA so against wind turbines?

    is it simply because they are in the pocket of the fossile fuel industry or are there some other weirder reasons behind it?

  10. I never understood wind. You know, I know windmills very much. I’ve studied it better than anybody I know. It’s very expensive. They’re made in China and Germany mostly, very few made here, almost none. But they’re manufactured — tremendous, if you’re into this, tremendous fumes, gases are spewing into the atmosphere. You know we have a world, right? So the world is tiny compared to the universe. So tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything — you talk about the “carbon footprint” — fumes are spewing into the air, right? Spewing. Whether it’s in China, Germany, it’s going into the air. It’s our air, their air, everything, right?

    So they make these things, and then they put them up, and if you own a house within vision of some of these monsters, your house is worth 50 percent of the price. They’re noisy, they kill the birds. You want to see a bird graveyard? You just go, take a look, a bird graveyard? Go under a windmill some day. You’ll see more birds than you’ve ever seen ever in your life

  11. The right wing really do base their policies on “the opposite of what lefties want” do they not? Because this just doesn’t even make any sense.

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