No Wonder Barack Obama & Libs Love Wind Power… It's Twice As Expensive
Posted by Jim Hoft on Friday, May 7, 2010, 10:28 PM
Why do liberal progressives hate poor people?
Why to liberal progressives hate the working class?
The Cape Wind power project in Massachusetts will cost twice as much as the current cost of electricity.
Who cares?… It’s not their money.
The Boston Herald reported:
The nation’s inaugural offshore wind farm, planned for waters off Cape Cod, has reached its first deal with a utility to purchase its power.
Under the agreement announced by both companies today, the utility National Grid would pay 20.7 cents per kilowatt hour starting in 2013 for half the power produces by the 130-turbine Cape Wind project planned for Nantucket Sound.
The price would go up by 3.5 percent annually to keep pace with inflation.
The deal is considered crucial to attract financing for a project estimated to cost at least $2 billion.
The deal must still be approved by state regulators.
Adjusted to today’s dollars, Cape Wind officials say the cost in the first year of the deal is 18.7 cents per kilowatt hour compared to the current cost of electricity of about 9 cents per kilowatt hour. The utility, which has 3.3 million customers in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York and Rhode Island, said the deal will add about $1.59 to the average customer’s monthly electricity bill in 2013.
National Grid U.S. president Tom King said the country must invest in renewable energy, even when it’s more expensive.
But, at least the Chinese are happy.
80% of the Stimulus cash for wind power went to foreign countries last year.
Obama’s green energy plan where money is spent on projects where costs exceed benefits could kill as many as 900,000 net US jobs.
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Published May 24, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 87 Comments
Opaobie commented:
Ya know, they asked Ted Kennedy what the reaction would be when people found out that the cost would go up exponentially, and he just shrugged and said, “We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”
dsdhs commented:
“Green energy” is dangerous to our national security as MOST of all of the rare earth materials for it are in China and other countries outside of the United States this puts us dependent on other people for these materials.
Coal, Oil and natural gas can be mined right here its ours we own it.
meep commented:
Personally, I’m for this particular wind farm. I even think they should name it the Teddy Kennedy Memorial Wind Farm.
It’s perfect too. Bloated, inefficient big government project blocking Kennedy’s precious Cape Cod views.
gus commented:
But the MARXIST JOBS are GREEEEN.
wanumba commented:
ALternate energy – ALL of it is more expensive and less efficient.
CFC bulbs are a FAR worse environmental hazard than the incandecent bulbs, gobbling up more energy, raw materials, toxic metal and transport. Solar is outrageously expensive because one needs BATTERIES to operate in no sun, and don’t have enough juice to handle the start-up spikes of common household appliances and tools.
See the SIZE of these windmills? They have specially designed and manufactured tractor trailors to haul ONE blade miles and miles from the factory to the site, requiring numerous escort vehicles. Recouping the install energy consumed ALONE takes forever. How much steel goes into ONE – steel from China transported across the ocean?
It’s an unbelieveably bad joke that the Left is using all manner of persuasion, from 24/7 media, to schools, to punitive taxation to push this collosal waste on everyone.
JKB commented:
The London Daily Mail has a great story about the solar panel scam. They concentrate on the solar cowboys who hard sell pensioners with lies about payback and savings. Bottom line, at UK energy prices, the cheap panels would take 100 years to pay back the investment.
Now they talk about the shady salesmen but all they are really doing is being good liberals an lying about the savings and efficiency of solar
Opaobie commented:
Three great quotes that apply:
“Science is the search for truth, whether we like it or not ~ David Bohm”
“The Sun, not a harmless essential trace gas, drives climate change”
Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit
dfgsdfsdf commented:
read this
Five myths about green energy
By Robert Bryce
Sunday, April 25, 2010
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/23/AR2010042302220.html
DocScience commented:
I believe it’s even worse than you think.
The wind power deal was for WHOLESALE KW-HR’s, not retail.
Here in the PJM interconnect, Dominion Power PRODUCES power for about 1.4 cents/kw-hr wholesale. I suspect the northern utilities have not too different producer costs.
ogee commented:
I pity the people in MA for having to pay triple in energy bills all to support the greedy tyrant scoundrels who have invested their money in these energy stocks. Don’t they have enough trillions already? These scoundrels are insane. Pure and simple insanity. To hell they’ll go and when they go they will not take their money with them. The Libs in Gov’t are for the poor people don’t you know it? NOT!
jojo commented:
Don’t forget Missouri’s own Tom Carnahan, brother of Russ and Robin Carnahan, Kennedywannabes.
T-CA received $80 million in stimulus funds to start his own wind power company.
He is unproven, inexperienced, perfect resume for the Demlibs to throw our money to.
Try to catch Russ out on his yacht, across the river; ask him about the new ‘family’ business, and I don’t mean politics.
anonymous commented:
jojo,
I have been harping on this same great story to our so called tea party leaders (Gateway Pundit, Dana, etc.) from St. Louis to expose this story, which for some reason they continue to ignore. This was not a rich family. I am almost sure there is some sort of connection between the yacht and the Wind Mill boondoggle. Where are our local Woodward and Bernsteins? Russ is so in favor of the economy destroying green jobs. Well, duh?
Chisum commented:
It’s an arms race over who’s going to build solar panels.”
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2010/05/graph_of_the_day_for_may_8_201.html
Chisum commented:
Mr. President Please Think of Spain — The Iberian Solar Power Bust
http://reason.com/blog/2010/05/06/mr-president-please-think-of-s
Insufficiently Sensitive commented:
Spain just went through a brief period of a ‘green jobs’ boom, invested into wind power. It’s over now, Spain is too broke to continue the obscene subsidy which powered the fake boom. But one effect that was noted was, that each ‘green’ job created during that period cost Spain two ungreen jobs from its productive economy. And now Spain is following Greece into bankruptcy and political turbulence.
Andrew commented:
Post #18 is spot on. Never mind the Spaniards example; the excuse by the regime will be “We’ll do it better!”
d_fitz commented:
I drove through the Lafayette IN area this week and saw a wind turbine farm stretched as far as the eye could see. It took almost 5 minutes at highway speed to pass through the entire complex.
About 1-in-10 of the turbines that I saw were turning, the rest were standing there, stationary, not doing a thing.
What a waste.
xiphos commented:
#8: Jim Crocie’s lyrics were little easier to say.
Three good’ns none the less.
donh commented:
Obamunism is old world fascism in EVERY detail. The nationalist labor union movements of the early 1900s were in every industrialized country, and Obama’s roots twist deep into the underworld of early american socialism. Even the wind mill program is pure Nazi Nazi Nazi mentality. See article Die Geschichte der Windenergienutzung 1890-1990 … http://www.wind-works.org/articles/HeymannRev.html …even the focus on windmill aesthetics and the optimal 3 blade design follow the engineering guidlines of nazi Ulrich Hutter. The article also mentions how many of these windfarm engineers also worked on the construction of Buchenwald to which Obama made a pilgrimage.
Paul_In_Houston commented:
Andrew
May 8th, 2010 | 8:13 am | #19
Post #18 is spot on. Never mind the Spaniards example; the excuse by the regime will be “We’ll do it better!”
Andrew:
You nailed it.
Trying to teach these people about past experience is an exercise in futility; just banging your head against a wall.
If they acknowledge it, their reaction is always, “That was then, this is now. This time, we’ll do it right!”
Whatever the failed liberal and/or socialist experiment, that is their attitude. It’s almost religious; to actually learn from experience demonstrates a lack of faith that amounts to heresy and sometimes carries similar consequences.
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jojo commented:
Well, Aonymous,re: the Carnahan’s wind business,
in all fairness, I believe I first heard about the Carnahan’s bid to get stimulus money for their BRO, right here on Gateway Pundit.
But, this is the only blogger that I know of that has publicized this taxpayer rip off.
I’ve posted it on ksdk’s blogs with no response; libs are so happy to see their political and union leaders cash in at taxpayer expense, even to their own peril.
Imagine how jealous Fat Clair of the Dough People will be!
rock commented:
http://motls.blogspot.com/2010/03/wind-turbines-will-add-up-to-015-c-to.html
“A red kite, one of approximately 1 million birds that die in Spain every year because of collisions with wind turbines.”
skh.pcola commented:
How can the cost per kilowatt double, but only increase the average bill by $1.59? That does not compute, unless the average bill using electricity from conventional sources is projected to be $1.59 in 2013. Somebody explain that number to me, please.