New evidence of Democrat hatred of energy

Washington Times:

Self-styled "green" leaders across the country face a conundrum over wind power: Do they alienate part of their constituency by leveling pristine forests to build wind farms, or irritate the other part by rejecting a promising source of renewable energy?

When Gov. Martin O'Malley faced that choice in April , he opted for the latter, and in no uncertain terms.

"In the end, we could not justify the consequences that commercial wind would have on this land, this publicly held land," he said in announcing his decision to block a wind-farm proposal in Western Maryland. He also barred wind turbines from being constructed on any state land.

"I also want to stress what this decision should not be misinterpreted to mean: This is not a rejection of wind power in the state of Maryland," he told a group of wind- farm opponents.

The move scuttled a plan to clear about 400 acres of forest to build more than 100 wind turbines along Backbone Mountain in Garrett County.

At the same time, Mr. O'Malley won approval for his plan to impose new energy standards requiring utilities to double the renewable energy they purchase by 2022.

...

Democrats just do not want to be inconvenienced by the production of energy in any form. They do not want to permit drilling offshore or in Alaska's ANWR. They do not want wind energy from Cape Cod to the great plains to the hills of Maryland. They do not want nuclear energy.

Nothing demonstrates their schizophrenia on "renewable" energy more than requiring utilities to double their production of it while denying the right to do it. The fact is they have no energy polciy, Democrats just have an anti energy policy. The GOP needs to be hammering on this issue this fall, so that we can get control of the agenda in Congress and do something about it.