Does big wind suck or blow
Image by twicepix via FlickrWind produces about 1% of our energy. O&G produces a combined 62% of our domestic energy needs.The fundamental problem is that wind energy is inefficient. It cost more than carbon based energy and it is difficult to get it to the consumer because of the lack of transmission lines. The subsidies can not cure this problem.
The wind industry claims to employ 85,000 people. O&G directly employs over 2 million and supports over 9 million jobs domestically.
Wind just got a 1-year extension to a $3 billion grant in the tax cut deal, and "clean energy" got more than $30 billion in the 2009 stimulus ($475,000 for every job generated), in addition to the renewable energy quotas they get from state governments. O&G, by comparison, gets $2.8 billion in targeted tax incentives, and their customers pay excise taxes (like an average 45.6 cents per gallon federal+state excise tax on gasoline).
And yet new wind installations are down 72% from last year. And this while the government was doing everything it could to stand in the way of coal, natural gas and offshore oil production!
The Obama administration is trying to cure it by driving up the cost of carbon based energy. They are strangling the domestic production of energy where ever they can and where they can't control the production, like Texas, they are trying to stifle it through the EPA.
They have become the anti energy administration and the biggest beneficiary will be those from whom we must import oil.
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