Lisa Murkowski is Big Sad About Trump Efforts to End Wind, Solar Subsidies
David Blackmon
Jul 21, 2025

Pity poor Lisa Murkowski, the fake Republican senator from Alaska. She said she has a big case of the sads in an interview over the weekend because the deal she struck with John Thune to get her vote on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act just isn’t working out the way she thought it would.

Oh, darn it! Whine some more, Lisa! Here, let me play this tiny violin for you.

Feel better? No? Hey, I tried.

Murkowski told the Anchorage Daily News that she “feels cheated” now over language she had inserted into the bill that she believed would bail out the wind and solar industries, saving them from efforts by real Republicans to save hundreds of billions of dollars by canceling wind and solar subsidies and tax breaks.

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Yeah the Senator from a state that makes it budget on Oil, pushing for renewables, wonder who's paying her back and where her investments are.

Hard to believe AK keeps sending this woman to the Senate....

Somehow I don't think of Alaska - where, depending on latitude, is cloudy and rainy or dark 6 months out of the year - when I think of solar power.

I understand that every Alaska resident receives a check from the state for oil revenues.
As noted, dark 6 months of the year no place for solar; windmills freeze in low temps as seen in Texas.
I wish we could get some more GOP senators elected so we could tell Murkowski to kiss off.

When the Yoop winter sets in (a couple hours from now) the solar array outside the township offices are often covered in a couple feet of snow.
Taxpayer $$$ well spent!

But, on the bright side, I bet those solar panels spin real fast in the winter wind.

If wind and solar is so great, why do they need subsidies?

Install wind turbines inside the House and Senate chambers.

With all the hot air generated there, it could generate about 88 gigawatts/hour.

Murkowski is shameless sponge. She didn't get her own job until she was 53 years old. The first job she actually got on her own was in the 2010 election where she won the successful write-in campaign she won by 2010 votes with lots of irregularities (earlier in the year she lost the primary). Prior to that, Daddy got her every single job including appointing her as a US Senator in 2002.

Her father is former governor and former US senator for Alaska.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
I understand that every Alaska resident receives a check from the state for oil revenues.

Correct. It's called the Permanent Dividend Fund and it was created in 1980. As of today, the fund has $83.1 Billion in it, and it's funding source is "twenty-five percent of all mineral lease rentals, royalties, royalty sale proceeds, federal mineral revenue sharing payments and bonuses received by the State shall be placed in a permanent fund"

It's nearly 2 generations old and I'd estimate less than half of recipients realize where the check comes from. If you want to purchase a snowmobile, snowblower, winter tires, etc. you had better do it before the dividend check comes out because all inventories of the above is wiped out in 1 weekend once the check comes out.

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Originally posted by sjtill:
As noted, dark 6 months of the year

Agree that solar is idiotic in Alaska, but 6 months is not even remotely accurate. The furthest north in Alaska (i.e. the North Slope) it's 40 days of darkness. That's 400 miles north of Fairbanks and 200 miles further north than where trees can physically grow. More than 98% of the population lives in places where 365 days per year there is a sunrise and sunset (e.g. Fairbanks' shortest day is 3:41:33, and Anchorage's shortest day is 5:27:44).

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
…The furthest north in Alaska (i.e. the North Slope) it's 40 days of darkness. That's 400 miles north of Fairbanks and 200 miles further north than where trees can physically grow…

Todd, super cool that you shared that. I had not heard of that place. While I had heard of the really long summer days and winter nights in Fairbanks, I had never heard of the North Slope. 40 days of night and 63 days of sun this summer. I find it to be very interesting.

Years ago I read that the amount of land in ANWAR they wanted to drill on was the size of a postage stamp on a football field.
Oh, that beautiful tundra! Save the reindeer, Polar bears, The tufted titmouse. Lets not be energy independent.

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Originally posted by HRK:
Yeah the Senator from a state that makes it budget on Oil, pushing for renewables, wonder who's paying her back and where her investments are.

Hard to believe AK keeps sending this woman to the Senate....

She’s never been elected with a majority vote. First term was given to her by daddy, second was a write in campaign after she lost in the primary and ran as a third candidate. The latest she finished second but won due to ranked choice voting. Kelly Tshibaka finished with the highest amount of votes but failed to get 50%+1. Ranked choice voting kicked in and the 10% who voted for the democrat Patricia Chesbro had their second choice votes counted for Murkowski sending her back to the senate.