Re: Obama Preferred Green Energy to kill off our National Bird -the Bald Eagle.

HOW OLD ARE YOU LARRY?

On Dec 30, 11:53 am, Larry Talbot <larry.tal...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> How old are you , Lew?
>  > Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 04:08:11 -0800
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> > Subject: Obama Preferred Green Energy to kill off our National Bird -the Bald Eagle.
> > From: lewc...@aol.com
> > To: opendebateforum@googlegroups.com
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> > Obama Preferred Green Energy to kill off our National Bird -the Bald
> > Eagle.
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> > 11:05 AM, Dec 28, 2012 •
> > By JEFFREY H. ANDERSON
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> > weeklystandard.com
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> > It's symbolically appropriate that one of President Obama's preferred
> > forms of "green energy" crony capitalism has the effect of killing off
> > the national bird. The federal wind production tax credit (PTC) is
> > mercifully set to expire on New Year's Eve. The PTC provides a
> > financial boon, at great taxpayer expense, to well-connected companies
> > that build eyesore wind farms that kill great birds of prey and pretty
> > much anything else that flies within the range of their "green"
> > blades. The nonpartisan Institute for Energy Research estimates that
> > if this cozy arrangement between big government and big business were
> > to be extended, it would cost American taxpayers $55,000,000,000. The
> > fate of the PTC — and of that $55 billion— now rests with House
> > Republicans, who would have to approve the PTC's renewal.
>
> > As John Fund writes today at National Review Online:
>
> > "[N]o matter how much money is blown its way, wind power — for simple
> > scientific reasons — can't graduate to the kind of large-scale,
> > reliable energy production that its backers tout. Physicist and
> > environmentalist John Droz Jr. notes: 'There is no real environmental
> > benefit to wind, because a) it's an unpredictable commodity, b) output
> > from any group of wind projects can and will go to zero on many
> > occasions, and c) energy generated from industrial wind power cannot
> > be economically stored.' Germany, which has gone stark raving mad in
> > building wind turbines, has proven just how unreliable it is. On one
> > day this February, wind power delivered a third of Germany's
> > electricity needs, but four days later, on a still day, it contributed
> > precisely zero."
>
> > Fund adds:
>
> > "Then there is the carnage inflicted on Mother Nature. Paul Driessen
> > reported in the Washington Times that 'the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
> > Service estimates that wind turbines kill 440,000 bald and golden
> > eagles, hawks, falcons, owls, cranes, egrets, geese, and other birds
> > every year in the U.S., along with countless insect-eating bats.' The
> > actual numbers are probably far higher. The turbine blades of the
> > nation's 39,000 windmills move at 100 to 200 miles per hour and can
> > mow down anything that gets in their path.
>
> > "Over the past 25 years, an estimated 2,300 golden eagles have been
> > killed by turbines at Altamont Pass, Calif., alone, leading to an 80
> > percent drop in the golden-eagle population of southern California."
>
> > But there is at least one more way in which wind farms undermine,
> > rather than improve, the environment. They are aesthetically hideous.
> > At close range, these giant, eagle-killing windmills — and some of
> > them are giant — look like something implanted on earth by an
> > unfriendly alien civilization. Nobody would ever want to live near
> > one.
>
> > So, why are liberals so fond of them? Because they never get built in
> > cities, where liberals live. As for why liberals can overlook the
> > carnage, that's a good question.
>
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