Posted on 08/14/2012 11:13:31 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
OSKALOOSA, Iowa — President Obama will continue his three-day swing across Iowa Tuesday with a new attack against Republican Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan, over their opposition to extending tax credits for the wind energy industry.
Across a landscape where wind turbines are nearly as common as corn fields, Obama will push Congress to extend the production tax credit for wind companies. In Iowa alone, the industry employs more than 7,000, according to the Obama campaign; across the country the number is 75,000. Obama has said that 37,000 jobs nationally would be at risk if the wind tax credit is not extended.
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Lots of hawks and eagles in this carnage. Where's the environmentalists on this one?
He does vent a lot of hot air.
I’ve always regarded wind and solar energy as the perfect solutions for those -25 degree Minnesota nights when the sky is clear and the wind is dead calm.
More like his BS wind.
“Wind energy will be Obama focus today in Iowa.”
From the NewsMax.com Staff
For the story behind the story...
Monday, Feb. 27, 2006 11:34 a.m. EST
Ted Kennedy Wants Windmills Killed
Self-proclaimed alternative energy proponent Sen. Ted Kennedy has strongly opposed an environmentally friendly “wind farm” off the coast of Massachusetts – and now it appears Kennedy will have his way.
A proposal before Congress would limit the construction of wind turbines and most likely doom plans for the Cape Wind Project, the nation’s first offshore wind farm. [Editor’s Note: Read the book that first exposed Sen. Kennedy’s hypocrisy )
“This is a dire moment for us,” declared Mark Rodgers, a Cape Wind Associates spokesman, who said the proposal “would be totally fatal” for the project.
The Cape Wind Project would erect 130 windmills in Nantucket Sound and could provide three-fourths of the power needed by Cape Cod and nearby islands, which is now largely supplied by coal-fired plants.
But Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, has called for a ban on all wind turbines within 1.5 nautical miles of shipping and ferry lanes, The Washington Post reports.
Young cited research in Britain suggesting that the wind turbines’ huge blades could interfere with shipboard radar, and he singled out the Cape Wind site – close to sea routes between the Cape and the islands of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard – as especially unsafe.
Cape Wind officials call Young’s concerns a “pretext” for killing the project, according to the Post, and point out that in 2003 a contractor for the Army Corps of Engineers stated that the wind farm “is not expected to create negative impacts to navigational safety.”
But the project had a powerful enemy in Sen. Kennedy, who has voiced strong support for alternative energy projects – as long as they are not in his backyard.
In his book “Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy,” author Peter Schweizer first disclosed: “Senator Kennedy has introduced dozens of pieces of legislation over the years to encourage the development of solar, hydrogen, and wind as alternatives to oil and coal.”
Why, then, would Kennedy oppose the Cape Wind Project?
“The wind turbines would be built in Nantucket Sound, about six miles off the coast from the Kennedy compound in Hyannis,” Schweizer explains.
“The problem was not aesthetic; the Kennedys wouldn’t be able to actually see the turbines from their home. Instead Robert Kennedy Jr., who had been beating the drum for alternative sources of energy for more than a decade, complained that the project would be built in one of the family’s favorite sailing and yachting areas.”
Sen. Kennedy publicly called for further study of the project – but “privately, he tried to get the study canceled,” Schweizer writes.
The federal Minerals Management Service is expected to issue a final verdict on the project early next year.
Nathanael Greene, a senior policy analyst at the Natural Resources Defense Council, told the Post: “This is sort of backdoor politics at its worst, for the worst possible reasons.”
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Yeah there is a winning argument for 0, talk up energy policy with gas running around $4 a gallon nation wide.
Where is PETA on this issue? Hello PETA!! Anyone from PETA listening?? Hello PETA!! Hello PETA!!
The blowhard is in Iowa.
Is he building a tunnel there like he did in India?
Yeah, keep on that theme, Obummer...
Then look at OKlahoma and CA and how they like wind power...
Then ask T. Boone how his wind mills are doing...
Then go to Spain and ask them how the industry is going...
Yeah, keep on that one, Obummer....it’s a winner.
Most of the increases are due to taxes. Most of the gas prices we pay are taxes.
It’s politics and wondering which politicians are buying and selling stocks for the wind power.
Just had the 3rd blackout this week here in TX in 100 degree weather. Public being scammed big time. Wonder who in Congress are going to make money in their private stock market on gains or losses on electricity or wind power.
This is getting ridiculous. 4th blackout, 3 today. no reason whatsoever for it. Especially in 100 degree weather.
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