I saw a letter in the WSJ by Iowa’s former guv Tom Wetsack who was claiming Iowa now draws 20 percent of its power from wind...
That sounds preposterous to me even if there is nothing going on there but wind blowin’ and corn growin’...
Oh.
Just did some searching.
From a hyperventilating website called hispanicbusiness.com (good lord what do they have to do with wind):
“Iowa was also among the leaders in wind energy jobs, with an estimated 6,000 to 7,000 jobs — just ahead of Texas and Illinois.
“The industry group continued to urge Congress to extend the Production Tax Credit, a renewable energy tax incentive scheduled to expire in 2012. IT SAID WIND POWER INSTALLATIONS DROPPED BETWEEN 73 AND 93 PERCENT IN PAST YEARS FOLLOWING EXPIRATION, LEADING TO MAJOR JOB LOSSES IN THE INDUSTRY.”
Subsidize anything enough and you will get the numbers to rise. Including illegal immigration.