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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Or at least all industries treated equal. If every business has similar tax deductions for expenses, I don't consider those subsidies.
Trump knows how the wind blows.
What are you talking about? We’ve got 10s of millions of them here presently.
> “Irrelevant.”
Uh No.
It’s completely relevant. Because it shows media bias and media bias is ALWAYS relevant.
Or when France started bombing Isis, somebody said: “Hey, did someone open up a can of man?”
What is the schedule and budget?
Maybe a wall of wind turbines? Probably want to shorten the masts so the blades are a few inches off the ground.
From one end of the southern border with Jebland to the other...
Excuses. The bias doesn’t matter, only the answer does.
Cute. How does a 10 year construction period help anything?
If it takes me 10 years to do the dishes, they'll get done in 10 years.
If I never start the dishes, they'll NEVER get done.
Anybody else talking about doing the dishes on the southern border with Jebland, or haven't any of them got their Big Girl Panties on yet?
There are many wind turbines in the Coachella Valley (Palm Springs) along the Banning Pass corridor wind tunnel.
They kill predator birds and/or scare them away. Rodents proliferate.
Ignore Iowa. Its a nothing burger. Candidates who win Iowa have a 50/50 chance at the nomination. As others wrote, they have been bought off.
Ignore Iowa.
So it doesn’t help. Thanks.
It gets built. Thanks for ignoring the facts.
As Shelson Cooper would say: It's funny because it's true.
Of course, but I am talking about 2014 to today....we have not gained in the numbers. The Mexicans actually find Mexico more economically sound then America. That might be a first in our history.
Agreed. It is really only important to see how the candidates handle themselves through this early process, rather than these early vote results.
Where did you get that information? Does that include central Americans? They come through the border too.
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