Donald Trump’s weird hatred of offshore wind energy is costing a lot as Uncle Sam has to pay off the companies which had invested in the canceled projects.

For the fifth time now, the Trump administration has agreed to pay an energy firm a huge sum of money, not for building something, but in fact for not building it. The German firm RWE announced that it would receive $1.22 billion to stop development of already-planned offshore wind farms, including one that was set to go up right here in New York.

That brings the total that Trump has committed specifically to kill wind energy to just about $4 billion. Let us repeat that — the U.S. government will pay a fortune just to not have new energy infrastructure.

Many of the administration’s decisions have been immoral, dangerous, authoritarian and corrupt, but few........

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