US Democrats ‘cut wind, solar aid’ to deny Trump cash to refill oil reserves

摘要

US lawmakers from the Democratic party have denied the Trump administration funds to buy cheap oil to refill the country’s strategic petroleum reserve (SPR), clearing the way for the White House’s historic USD 2 trillion coronavirus stimulus package to sail through the Senate in a key vote expected tonight. But the move was part of a high-stakes political trade-off that saw renewable power projects denied extensions to looming tax credit funding deadlines, as the Covid-19 outbreak has wreaked havoc with global supply chains for solar and wind equipment.