Will Trump Take A Dump On Solar?

Will Trump destroy the US clean energy industry?

Donald Trump has won the US Presidential election.  The people of the United States of America have spoken.  They haven’t spoken very well, but they have done it.  And since they will have a guy in charge who never shuts up, they’re not likely to stop now.

They were tired of voting for politicians who help corrupt business men instead of the common people and they have expressed their displeasure by voting in a corrupt businessman.  It is really quite efficient when you think about it, as it cuts out all the middlemen.

Although I thought it was unlikely he would win, I did consider betting on a Trump victory.  But after I found out I couldn’t take my winnings in tinned food or bottled water there didn’t seem any point.

Of course, that was just because I happen to like tinned food and bottled water.  I’m certainly not casting any aspersions upon the likely quality of a Trump Presidency.  I would never do that.  Upon hearing that Trump had won I certainly did not say, “This is what happens when you feed your Oompa Loompa after midnight.”

I want to assure President Trump that no Australian would ever say anything bad about him.  And if he thinks he heard an Australian say something nasty, that wasn’t actually us, it was the Austrians.  So please drop your nuclear bombs on them.

He May Not Be So Bad

America has had a President who was profoundly unsuited for the position not that long ago and America wasn’t destroyed.  Sure, another country was, but America survived.  His name was George W. Bush.  The difference between him and Trump is he tried to act like he was Presidential material instead of acting like building material.  That is, as thick as two bricks mating.  For example, when it came to people of Central American background, Bush tried to court their vote, instead of saying he wants them caught by the throat.  Bush even spoke Spanish.  (He certainly didn’t speak English.)

The United States survived Bush, and if it can survive that it can probably survive anything, including Trump.  Sure, Bush’s Presidency had some major problems.  While the numbers are disputed, he may have gotten about a million people killed, but provided he refrains from starting wars, Trump could easily be judged by history to be a less worse President than Bush.

And personally, I don’t think Trump wants to start a war.  This is because Putin is always saying he wants peace.

It Is Only 99.9% Likely He’ll Trash The Environment

We don’t know Trump will destroy the environment.  All we know is he has said he will do things that definitely will destroy the environment.  Admittedly, this is a cause for great concern, because I find if you look at what politicians say they will do before an election, they generally either do it or attempt to do it after.

But Trump has promised to do so many things he may be too busy destroying certain groups of people, such as random bloggers, that he may not have time to really concentrate his energy on destroying the planet.  And I find that in general the bigger a blowhard a politician is, the lazier they usually are once they get in office.  It took 7 years for one to get around to invading Poland.

At one point there was even an indication that Trump was interested in a carbon tax.  But unfortunately his interest waned when he found out a carbon tax didn’t actually involve taxing things that didn’t emit carbon dioxide.

Things look pretty grim for the planet seeing how Trump has said he wants to revive America’s coal industry and that global warming is a hoax started by communist China to weaken the purity of America’s essence.

But, looking on the bright side, I don’t expect to see coal making a comeback because the US coal industry is in such dire financial straits they probably won’t be able to match the bribes America’s fracking industry will offer to shut them down.  Chances are they’ll just get some pesky regulations removed.  Like the ones that stop them from polluting ground water and impurify America’s precious natural fluids.

Even Trump Can’t Stop The Wind And Sun

Renewable energy has come so far that it will be hard for even Trump to stop it.  American made wind turbines are now producing electricity in that country for less than 4 cents a kilowatt-hour and solar power is getting cheaper all the time.  Mexico will be building solar power for under 5 cents a kilowatt-hour, so as long as they can sling some power lines over that wall Trump is planning to build, even if all solar development is stopped in the United States, Mexico can still send them some.

But the really optimistic thing about Trump’s statement that global warming is a Chinese hoax is he has said it was a joke.  So his statement may just turn out to be what his Presidency is almost certain to become.

Trump Might Not Cause A Global Depression

Many people are concerned about the economy, particularly as the Australian share market fell 2% yesterday after it became clear Trump was likely to win.  But a Nobel Prize¹ winning economist says we’re not heading for a global depression.  He just says we’re just heading for a global recession, and that’s not nearly as bad.

And it may not even come to that.  When one deals in real estate, as Donald Trump has from time to time, you come to realize that inflation is your friend.  It covers up so many mistakes.  So when Trump says he wants things done, whether it is paying for a deportation force or a Great Wall of Mexico, I don’t think he’s going to let things like sound accountancy stand in his way and his decisions are going to have a profound inflationary bias.  And that might be a good thing.  It could help get the global economy moving.

Sure, there might be a few drawbacks.  There could be some weakening of America’s entire future financial stability.  But those problems are in the future and might not really emerge for years.

It is true that inflating away American debt would immediately enrage China, but I’m sure that if Trump entered into negotiations with them in a calm, mature, and reasonable manner, befitting of a great statesman, they could come to an amicable arrangement and not nuclear Armageddon   After all, they have a lot in common.  A fondness for walls for one thing.

Coming Soon – Australia Got Talent

The United States may be about to become a less pleasant place for people working in renewable energy, or people who aren’t involved in the fracking or wall construction industries.  Or those who are just opposed to feline grabbing in general.  But, this is a great opportunity for Australia.  We could attract a lot of talent from America.

We could get Elon Musk.

Will Elon Flee Trumpistan For Australia?

All we would have to do is promise to let him build him electric cars here and allow him to play around with rockets in Woomera, or let him build a space port in North Queensland, and Elon’s your uncle.  We might even finally get some solar colorbond out of him.

And even if he intends to move back to his homeland of South Africa, he might make a mistake and end up in South Australia instead.  We could put some lions from Monarto Zoo outside his window to keep him confused.

So a Trump Presidency could result in a lot of American talent moving to Australia that would contribute to both our culture and our economy.

Just so long as they don’t, you know, arrive by boat.