It is all about funneling money to cronies and the undeserving.
Hmmmmm? Did I not learn how to read in first grade. The link between windmills and big oil seems to be missing.
There is this:
The casting of what we will call “Big Wind,” in an underdog role to “Big Oil,” is the product of simplistic, uninformed thinking. Big Wind is backed by billions of dollars in taxpayer-provided subsidies and rich political exploiters who funnel dollars to politicians so they can keep making even more money off of the subsidies. It enjoys support from thousands of sincere voters who harbor the erroneous belief that once the wind turbines are in place, whatever energy is produced is free and clean.
And this:
Big Oil also spends tens of millions of dollars in the political money game to protect its interests, which include bolstering both traditional uses of fossil fuels and (here’s where the news media are 180 degrees off) cashing in on wind energy as well.
The secret that neither Big Oil nor Big Wind wants the public to know is that wind energy is roughly two-thirds fossil fuels – mostly natural gas.
What I think is not spelled out is the need for base load electricity production regardless of how many wind turbines are built or operating. That is a result of the unreliable wind. When the wind doesn’t blow perhaps 50 to 70 percent of the time, present generating resources fueled by the ever reliable “fossil fuels” must remain active to provide the base load on demand.
...and on the same subject if it is new natural gas assets doing the generating they will cost up to ten times the cost of coal generation. So if you are a conspiracy theorist you might begin to suspect that “big oil is burning the candle at both ends. I happen to believe the wind energy folks are the scam artists while the traditional power producers are up to their ears in EPA regs and a President out to screw us and the industry.
What?