{"id":8256,"date":"2016-11-10T10:26:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-10T00:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/?p=8256"},"modified":"2017-04-18T15:12:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-18T04:42:28","slug":"will-trump-take-dump-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/will-trump-take-dump-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Trump Take A Dump On Solar?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8316\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8316\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8316\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/usa-solar-trumped.jpg\" alt=\"usa flag in solar cells\" width=\"650\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/usa-solar-trumped.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/usa-solar-trumped-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Trump destroy the US clean energy\u00a0industry?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Donald Trump has won the US Presidential election.\u00a0 The people of the United States of America have spoken.\u00a0 They haven&#8217;t spoken very well, but they have done it.\u00a0 And since they will have a guy in charge who never shuts up, they&#8217;re not likely to stop now.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"Monty Python - Meaning of Life - Death\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yR5Z4n1TdSI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->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.\u00a0 It is really quite efficient when you think about it, as it cuts out all the middlemen.<\/p>\n<p>Although I thought it was unlikely he would win, I did consider betting on a Trump victory.\u00a0 But after I found out I couldn&#8217;t take my winnings in tinned food or bottled water there didn&#8217;t seem any point.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that was just because I happen to like tinned food and bottled water.\u00a0 I&#8217;m certainly not casting any aspersions upon the likely quality of a Trump Presidency.\u00a0 I would never do that.\u00a0 Upon hearing that Trump had won I certainly did not say, &#8220;This is what happens when you feed your Oompa Loompa after midnight.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I want to assure President Trump that no Australian would ever say anything bad about him.\u00a0 And if he thinks he heard an Australian say something nasty, that wasn&#8217;t actually us, it was the Austrians.\u00a0 So please drop your nuclear bombs on them.<\/p>\n<h2>He May Not Be So Bad<\/h2>\n<p>America has had a President who was profoundly unsuited for the position not that long ago and America wasn&#8217;t destroyed.\u00a0 Sure, another country was, but America survived.\u00a0 His name was George W. Bush.\u00a0 The difference between him and Trump is he tried to act like he was Presidential material instead of acting like building material.\u00a0 That is, as thick as two bricks mating.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 Bush even spoke Spanish.\u00a0 (He certainly didn&#8217;t speak English.)<\/p>\n<p>The United States survived Bush, and if it can survive that it can probably survive anything, including Trump.\u00a0 Sure, Bush&#8217;s Presidency had some major problems.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>And personally, I don&#8217;t think Trump wants to start a war.\u00a0 This is because Putin is always saying he wants peace.<\/p>\n<h2>It Is Only 99.9% Likely He&#8217;ll Trash The Environment<\/h2>\n<p>We don&#8217;t know Trump will destroy the environment.\u00a0 All we know is he has said he will do things that definitely will destroy the environment.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 And I find that in general the bigger a blowhard a politician is, the lazier they usually are once they get in office.\u00a0 It took 7 years for one to get around to invading Poland.<\/p>\n<p>At one point there was even an indication that Trump was interested in a carbon tax.\u00a0 But unfortunately his interest waned when he found out a carbon tax didn&#8217;t actually involve taxing things that didn&#8217;t emit carbon dioxide.<\/p>\n<p>Things look pretty grim for the planet seeing how Trump has said he wants to revive America&#8217;s coal industry and that global warming is a hoax started by communist China to weaken the purity of America&#8217;s essence.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-wrapper\"><iframe title=\"precious bodily fluids\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iAHJCPoWCC8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; 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Australia Got Talent<\/h2>\n<p>The United States may be about to become a less pleasant place for people working in renewable energy, or people who aren&#8217;t involved in the fracking or wall construction industries.\u00a0 Or those who are just opposed to feline grabbing in general.\u00a0 But, this is a great opportunity for Australia.\u00a0 We could attract a lot of talent from America.<\/p>\n<p>We could get Elon Musk.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8317\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8317\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8317\" src=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/elon-citizen.jpg\" alt=\"elon musk photoshopped with Australian Citizenship certificate\" width=\"650\" height=\"434\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/elon-citizen.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/elon-citizen-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Will Elon Flee Trumpistan For Australia?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Woomera_Test_Range\" target=\"_blank\">Woomera<\/a>, or let him build a space port in North Queensland, and Elon&#8217;s your uncle.\u00a0 We might even finally get some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solarquotes.com.au\/blog\/tesla-solar-roof-tiles\/\">solar colorbond<\/a> out of him.<\/p>\n<p>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.\u00a0 We could put some lions from Monarto Zoo outside his window to keep him confused.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Just so long as they don&#8217;t, you know, arrive by boat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump has won the US Presidential election.\u00a0 The people of the United States of America have spoken.\u00a0 They haven&#8217;t spoken very well, but they have done it.\u00a0 And since they will have a guy in charge who never shuts up, they&#8217;re not likely to stop now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[397,663,151],"class_list":["post-8256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-policy","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-usa","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.4 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Will Trump Take A Dump On Solar? - SolarQuotes Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Will Donald Trump destroy the US clean energy industry? 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