May 8, 2012

Why We Need to Terminate Wind Subsidies

Paul Driessen, Town Hall


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Unprecedented! As bills to extend seemingly perpetual wind energy subsidies were again introduced by industry lobbyists late last year, taxpayers finally decided they’d had enough.

Informed and inspired by a loose but growing national coalition of groups opposed to more giveaways with no scientifically proven net benefits, thousands of citizens called their senators and representatives – and rounded up enough Nay votes to run four different bills aground. For once, democracy worked.

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TAGGED: crony capitalism, AWEA, American Wind Energy Association, Obama administration, U.S. Congress, government subsidies, wind energy

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