Leaders race like lemmings toward wind

Why is it a Spanish energy company called Iberdrola received $546 million in stimulus money in 2009 and was expected to get $470 million more in 2010 to install more wind turbines in America? This, according to Senior Policy Analyst Ben Lieberman at the Heritage Foundation, www.heritage.org/research/commentary/2010/04/in-green-spain.

What about Ireland’s Mainstream and China’s Goldwind (Get it? Gold wind.) How much are they getting to help ruin our lives so that electricity can be shipped off to other states that don’t have to live with the wind turbines?

Wind can stop blowing at any time; it must always be backed up by reliable non-wind sources. Thus, utilities really can’t cut back on conventional sources when they add wind to the mix. Mr. Lieberman wrote: “For this reason, an electric system that’s forced to include wind becomes a marvel of expensive redundancy. And, make no mistake, every penny will show up in our monthly bills.”

Alex Newman of www.thenewamerican.com wrote: “Despite billions in taxpayer subsidies pumped into the so-called ‘green energy’ industry, almost 15,000 windmills – maybe more – have been left to rot across America.”

Columnist Don Surber of the Charleston Daily Mail wrote: “Wind isn’t the most important thing about turbines. It is all about the tax subsidies. The blades churn until the money runs out.”

In the UK, the Daily Express reported on Nov. 28, 2011, that government ministers were being urged to abandon the race to build wind farms because they can cause “life-threatening illnesses.”

It’s as if all our leaders, national as well as local, are succumbing to a mass hysteria-like syndrome (like lemmings mindlessly drowning themselves). They don’t care about the reported illnesses, or the blight on our beautiful scenery. They don’t care that birds and bats are being slaughtered by the thousands.

They just don’t care.