“Hey CRI, We Get It.” Episode XVI
Hey CRI, you guys hate wind power. Wind power drives you fucking nuts. If wind power was a person you’d cut its head off and shove its lifeless torso through a wood chipper.
Wind power is pure evil. Wind power played with your little CRI thingy when you were ten, stole your best girl at 17, or borrowed $50 and never paid it back. Wind power is something YOU FUCKING HATE!!!
We get it.
I’m getting very suspicious about CRI’s monomania in trashing windpower. I’m wondering if they either get monetary benefactions from big utility companies or if they are writing this drivel because they want to get those benefactions.
The attacks really are absurdly over the top. Any pretense of scientific or journalistic objectivity is long gone.
As of today, Cape Wind has all of its permits to start construction.
I think that CRI is just committed to the most backwards position it can take on any subject. Especially if it will result in building or new industry. They won’t be happy until Delaware’s economy is nail salons, burger joints and a couple of big banks that won’t extend credit.
Wind power is not in the Bible.
Wind power is not in the Bible.
Wrong. Jesus was against wind power.
Mark 4:39:
Wind power in itself is good technology. After all, it’s only a different way of turning a generator to produce electricity.
The problem is with the subsidies. These wind companies deserve the same gov.subsidies as any other power supply company, no more no less.
Forcing this type of utility on the public at great expense to satisfy the ideological wants of an elite minority is where I draw the line.
The article says that Cape Wind is set to become America’s first offshore wind project. Does this mean Bluewater Wind is behind schedule?
“These wind companies deserve the same gov.subsidies as any other power supply company, no more no less.”
i would go further and say these wind companies deserve the subsidies that the oil companies get and the oil companies should be forced to actually pay taxes.
The Bluewater Wind timeline is here. Not certain if this schedule is still operative, but if it is, this means that the DE farm is in the EIS and permitting stage still.
And co-signing with socialistic Ben — windpower deserves at least as much of a subsidy that the fossil fuel industry or the nuclear industry gets.
I see you’re all continuing to practice Obama’s call for civility. Good job. Keep it up.
“Forcing this type of utility on the public at great expense to satisfy the ideological wants of an elite minority is where I draw the line.”
They are not “ideological” wants. They make economic sense — not now, but in the future.
Fossil fuels are currently cheaper, but nobody expects them to stay cheap forever. They aren’t cheap at all once you factor in the price of Iraq and Afghanistan, which we are paying for with borrowed money. When fossil fuel prices rise permanently, windpower will be competitive. But you don’t want to wait that long to get the industry up to speed. Hence, tax breaks and subsidies.
Ask Alexander Hamilton about the benefits of protecting our infant industries, he was all for it (and he’s now a pitch-man for banks). Industrial subsidies are not bad in and of themselves; they do allow new industries to survive in a competitive environment as they scale up to become more efficient to take on legacy industries (Creative Destruction in practice). The trick is to know when to take away the subsidies when the technologies mature. None of our current energy industries (coal, gas, oil, nuclear included) have kicked the subsidies habit yet.
As one of the earliest and staunchest proponents of wind power generation but an individual who has always been open-minded enough to consider any and all points of view to verify and examine my own collection of knowledge I must confess that I invariably hit the delete key when I receive any emails on the subject matter of renewables and alternative generation from the Caesar Rodney Institute.
There inability to make either a cogent or semi-lucid argument has left me no other alternative but to hoard my available time for consideration of realistic perspectives. The same goes for most of their Economic Policy statements from the inimitable John Stapleford.
I suggest all of you consider cyber-space as the appropriate arena for their thoughts to meander through. Hit the delete key and pay them no attention, perhaps they’ll go away. You know “if a tree falls in the forest….”
John Kowalko
John Kowalko
JK you’ve set up your “control-shift-V” key to respond to my CRI posts. Very economical.
John, we’re talking about millions upon millions of dollars of tax money. Even if you’re certain you are right it is pretty irresponsible as a legislator to say that you’re not open to reconsidering the notion.
That’s a pretty hilarious line of argumentation issuing from a Republican. You probably don’t see it, but trust me. Hilarious.
Occam, what millions upon millions are you talking about?
FMD: The oil exploration subsidies were added in either the 70s or 80s in response to the “oil crises” of the 70s. No American business ever “kicks” the habit of asking for free money, just one reason why we do not now have, nor will we ever have, a “free market.” The only way for one to exist would be in the absence of all government.