Posted on 08/14/2008 6:16:26 AM PDT by autumnraine
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called congressional Republicans who want up-or-down drilling votes “hand maidens of the oil companies.” Let’s call Pelosi what she is: House girl of the Big Wind boondogglers.
Though she seemingly backtracked on labeling drilling a “hoax” this week, Pelosi refuses to consider GOP energy proposals that don’t include massive government subsidies for eco-fantastical alternatives that have never panned out.
Which brings us to Madame Speaker’s 2007 financial disclosure form. Schedule III lists “assets and ‘unearned income’” of between $100,001-$250,000 from Clean Energy Fuels Corp. - Public Common Stock.” Clean Energy Fuels Corp. is a natural gas provider founded by T. Boone Pickens. Yep, that T. Boone Pickens– former oilman-turned-wind power evangelist whose ads touting a national wind campaign are now as ubiquitous as Viagra promos.
Pickens and Pelosi now share the same talking points downplaying the need to drill and open up more access to American oil. Instead, the Pickens pie-in-the-sky plan campaign proposes to completely replace natural gas with wind power in power generation and theoretically free up natural gas for America’s transportation needs.
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Nan's hand in the cookie jar.
This woman is clearly incapable of thinking at even a junior-high level. What have we done to deserve such?
I think we need to call her
NANNY RACHET
Wind power is good, Nan is bad.
This will never see the light of day in the MSM.
I’m Fed-Exing all of my personal “Bio-Mass” for StretchFace to burn for fuel in her palatial digs.
Wind and solar are a joke. Nan is a dirty trick on the American people.
Wind is providing 6 percent of the electrical power used in Iowa and that could easily be up to 10 percent in 2 to 3 years. It is also providing tons of land lease money to farmers. That is not a joke in any way.
Take away generous, taxpayer-funded subsidies and most of the wind development dreams would disappear. I wouldn't consider wind a joke either, but it is being touted way beyond it's economic and practical value.
And I just read that it takes 600 windmills to power 140,000 homes. Not wonderful.
That is because it is mis-info.
It originated at the #DontGO blog written by William R, Collier, Jr AKA Republicanist. It then gets picked up by Mis-info queen Maulkin, and then gets spread to FR.
After numerous threads at FR, it becomes pseudo-fact.
From where do you wrongly get that 30 year number?
Good gravy, there has been wind and solar since the early 80’s. It doesn’t work. There have been no “breakthroughs”. It takes too many windmills to power anything.
In a very time wind will be subsidie free. Other forms of power get government assistance of various types too. Even the grocery store near my house got a million dollars in government assistance in order to build a bigger store. Regarding the way wind is being touted, yes, wind is not going to run my Harley and it should not be touted as a replacement for good ole gasoline.
Ever look into the black lung fund or the fact that if a nuke has a problem it is the government that does the clean up rather than an insurance policy?
As I understand it, from an earlier thread, T-Bones “plan” is also based on a plot to seize vast water rights in that area.
Information on developments since 1975
Your statement shows quite a bit if ignorance.
My current work location prevents me from opening that link. But what I will say is that 1gw of wind can produce about 2500 gwhr of power which represents about 5 percent of Iowa’s use. We can add 1 GW of wind every 3 years so your 30 years number is rather meaningless.
Hardly. See post 16.
Last week, another Freeper was talking about their states wonderful wind turbines, that are run by gas when there's no wind.
No it’s not. You still need a forest of windmills to get any significant power. Wind will never be a mainstream, viable alternative.
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