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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Thank God we dodged that one.
He has mentioned 4 billion to 7 billion out of the 45 billion trade imbalance. Schedule has not been released. Is it important in this primary season?
Do you doubt that Trump can do it on schedule and on budget?
Did you notice that “others” [not you, thackney] are reluctant to list the presidential candidates supporting a wall?
> “Excuses. The bias doesn’t matter, only the answer does.”
Says who? You? If you are what your screen name alludes to, you should hide because apparently what you do is embroiled in massive failure. In other words, what you have to say isn’t worth spit.
Syrians elbowed the Mexicans out of the way.
I think only Mexico. Mexico is used because they are the focus for the wall right now.
ROTFLMAO. So true.
The Cruz plan includes everything from building a complete southern border wall to ending birthright citizenship to halting legal immigration when unemployment gets “unacceptably high.â€
“I will complete the wall,” Cruz vows in the plan, endorsing an objective that Donald Trump has been touting for months.
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Donald Trump Wants To Build A Border Wall And Ted Cruz Agrees
http://www.inquisitr.com/2224512/donald-trump-wants-to-build-a-border-wall-and-ted-cruz-agrees/
July 4, 2015
Why not ask him and report back to us.
Thackney is famous in his own mind evidenced by his self-promotion as the be-all know-all on oil and gas threads.
It serves no purpose to give his say any weight.
Without defining the schedule and budget, that question could not be answered. Set a high enough budget and long enough schedule and I could get it built.
The question is answered by the man’s track record which is infinitely more than you have ever accomplished. So your opinion on the subject is worth about a pound of your life’s used bubblegum.
Nah, it supposedly happened after the financial crash in 2008, too. Really, seems to be claimed whenever the itch for “comprehensive immigration reform” or the motivation to calm concerns about illegals is high.
I’m not sure I trust the numbers and where they come from.
And now, he’s going to build a Muslim registry, right?
One might wonder if he says whatever sounds good in the moment.
Then, it turns out the wall thing has staying power. So, he’s riding it.
Na...The Mexicans will just shoot them up. One shot from a 30.06 and a turbine is DONE!
Good point.
Asking if it can be done on schedule and budget, without defining either the schedule or budget is meaningless.
Don’t you understand that?
It doesn’t require personal insults. It requires definition.
Works for me. Wind farms, ethanol, utterly silly irrelevant stuff when you’re looking at a life-or-death invasion. Ted supported bringing in Syrians in 2014, so I guess Donald can support and then not support wind farms.
It would not bother me if Trump was invested in the companies, and those companies use the tax structure and incentives to their best advantage.
The problem are the subsidies themselves. Business exist to make money and they are run by fools if they don’t use the legal tools available to them to meet that goal.
The businesses are not the problem. The bad government policies and those that continue them are the problem.
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