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So it is with a mild sense of déjà vu that we read about the bogus claim that the Obama porkulus bill, which my grandkids will likely have a hand in paying off, “created” 50,000 windmill jobs including many that existed before “stimulus” or even the Obama administration (90% or so of which are inherently temporary, and so when homogenized, do not represent 50,000 jobs regardless, fyi).
Specifically, that bit about the Department saying it simply repeated information given to it by wind industry interests when making that official claim sounded awfully familiar.
Windmill companies helping craft DoE pronouncements, to their own benefit…where have I heard tha…ah, yes!
In fact, exposure of Big Wind’s rather intimate relationship with this Department of Energy is likely at least part of the reason I expect to soon see the departure of Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. That is former Al Gore CEO Cathy Zoi, recently kicked upstairs to be acting #2, to which she could never be confirmed.
And, yes, Big Wind is to a great extent constituted of those foreign money interests the president disparages, while he also receives support from them and, purely coincidentally, allows them a remarkable role inside his administration. Oh, and which largely foreign interests he heavily subsidized with “stimulus” money transferred from you and yours, to them (at least according to university research and as complained about by Big Labor and lefty mags).
Had enough yet?
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mad libertarian guy | 10.23.10 @ 9:53AM
Had enough yet?
You have no idea.
Tal McBride| 10.23.10 @ 10:42AM
Please note the modern wind industry STARTED in the US! Much as the micro-electronics industry (TV's, VCR's, etc.) did. We've exported/given up that industry nearly completely. When was the last time you bought a TV 'made in America'?
The US (and that includes our Gov't) allowed Europe (Vestas, based in Denmark, is the World leader in wind turbine manufacturing, but soon to be bumped to #2 by Chinese manufacturers). Germany, until just recently, had more installed wind capacity than another other country.
Would this be anything like the Coal, Oil, Gas, and Nuclear Energy Industry insiders that have moved in and out of the the DoE since it was established? Would this be anything like the legislation that those same 'conventional' (read: polluting, non-zero emission, electricity-generating technologies) the Federal Gov't has been subsidizing for DECADES?
Would this be anything similar to the import tariffs the US stands idle by and allows other nations (China particularly, with it's 100% import tariffs on 'certain US goods') to be charged on US imports, without returning the favor?
Tenn Slim| 10.24.10 @ 9:57AM
Again, DOE, EPA regs, money from this and that source. Makes the Andrew Jackson, Tea Pot Dome, NY FDR scandals look like amateur nite on SLN.
Folks, we reap what we have sown.
May the Creator have mercy on us.
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chris broach| 10.24.10 @ 11:47PM
Once again I hate to be the town crier.The Chicago Climate Excgange is the big pay off .Shut it down unless you won't to create another elite class .It's the biggest scam every concived we will pay more tax's higher energy bills.Take duke power for instance they got a new power grid out the deal payed for by tax payer's if you look at anyone on the lst there proffits are going up why we go broke.Really doe's anyone trust Al Gore are Frank Raines who had a big part in the trouble where in now with freddie and fannie.I don't know about you but I'm tired of getting broken off in my a--! Please do some reserch on the ccx and make your own conclusion.