Posted on 11/20/2015 8:29:49 AM PST by thackney
Patricia Scalabrini, whose husband works for a local wind turbine manufacturer, wanted to know if Trump supports subsidies for the industry. The company that employs her husband, TPI, moved into a factory that was abandoned when Maytag moved its operations to Mexico. TPI employs about 800 people in Newton.
It is helped by subsidies, in the form of the "production tax credit," which gives energy producers tax breaks based on how many kilowatt-hours of electricity they generate using renewable methods. The PTC has been continually renewed for short periods, meaning that it often becomes a political bargaining chip. It is important to continued rapid expansion of the wind industry, and therefore to the woman's husband's job.
Trump began by saying, "Well, I'm okay with it." (He then said that he "know[s] a lot about wind," prompting some tittering in the audience.) He noted that it can be hard for wind to be competitive in energy production particularly when prices for fossil fuels are so low, so "you need subsidies." (He paused to marvel: "It's an amazing thing when you think -- you know, where they can, out of nowhere, out of the wind, they make energy.")
The moderator pressed him, you're okay with the subsidies? Trump replied, "I'm okay with subsidies, to an extent. I don't like subsidies when you have $19 trillion in debt." That said, he was clearly supportive: "If oil goes up [in price], it's great. But if oil stays low, it's a very tough business."...
Trump, in fact, does know a lot about wind. A few years ago, Donald Trump wanted to build a golf course in Scotland. There was just one problem: The Scottish government had licensed an off-shore wind farm near the course, which Trump worried would ruin the views.
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“Trump, in fact, does know a lot about wind”
Probably true, but WaPo, Murdoch and the WSJ hold a doctorate in “wind”
Who cares?
He’s going to build a wall and stop this invasion.
The lefties have given Iowa all kinds of free goodies, which makes it rather difficult for conservatives to run there for nomination. Wind farms, ethanol subsidies, etc., etc. They’ve been bought off. Maybe that stuff can be undone, but it would be deadly to tell the Iowa voters that before the election, regrettably.
“Trump, in fact, does know a lot about wind. A few years ago, Donald Trump wanted to build a golf course in Scotland. There was just one problem: The Scottish government had licensed an off-shore wind farm near the course, which Trump worried would ruin the views.”
Did they ask this question of Kerry in 2004 regarding wind farms off of Martha’s Vineyard and Hyannisport? And how they killed it because of the “views?”
He he offered any sort of estimate for how long he expects it to take to build the “Great Wall of Trump”?
“Trump worried would ruin the views.”
If he mentioned all the birds these things kill the libs would have loved him.
Someone on FR had a funny retort to a rant against Trump:
Me no care. Me want wall.
I cracked up!
“Did they ask this question of Kerry in 2004 regarding wind farms off of Martha’s Vineyard and Hyannisport? And how they killed it because of the “views?—
American TRAITORS always get a free pass.
Invasion? From what I read we had a net zero Mexican population this year. I guess Mexicans are not finding the roads paved with gold like they thought.
He got a bigger punishment......no presidency.
“If he mentioned all the birds these things kill the libs would have loved him”
-—He did, in NH the day he officially registered for ballot. It’s on video telling someone that Wind Farms kill birds
If the “good ones” are going back and the “bad ones” are staying, we still lose.
No subsides for anything period.
What a crock. The WaPo in action again. No touch Obama who is deliberately destroying the demographic of America, but urinate on Trump about wind farms....so obvious.
If you are a one issue voter, I think Trump is strongest in that issue.
Are you saying Trump’s people are incapable of building the Wall on schedule and on budget? Because otherwise why is your question relevant?
How long?
So he said he can appreciate the concept of subsidies for such—but not for a country with the debt we have.
I’d say he answered admirably.
More intentional distortion from the MSM.
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