Last-minute changes to Trump's 'big, booty full bill' stun clean energy industry (and Elon Musk)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The Senate is making a final push to advance President Trump's signature legislation with a flurry of last-minute changes that stunned Elon Musk and the already besieged clean energy industry while offering new support for fossil fuels.

The controversy surrounding the bill's energy approach is just one front in a frenzied final push. The price tag has received plenty of additional attention after a new weekend tally found that the bill has grown by nearly $1 trillion since the Senate took it up.

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At the same time, new last-minute inducements were unveiled for fossil fuels, including one classifying coal as a critical mineral when it comes to a government manufacturing credit.

"We're doing coal," Trump said in an interview released over the weekend on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," where he also called solar energy projects "ugly as hell."

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/last-minute-changes-to-trumps-big-beautiful-bill-stun-clean-energy-industry-and-elon-musk-124435832.html

[Disaffected]

1. No Krasnov, the thing ugly as hell is

yourself, inside and out.

And, big, beautiful, clean coal........

[tanyev]

2. Well, I've never seen a picture of a beautiful coal mine, Donny.

[SARose]

3. Paradise

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there’s a backwards old town that’s often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.

And daddy won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well I’m sorry my son but you’re too late in asking
Mister Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away

Well sometimes we’d travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we’d shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

Then the coal company came with the world’s largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I’ll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waiting
Just five miles away from wherever I am.

John Prine