It figures. President Obama takes credit for wind farms built during the term of President Bush.
MSNBC reported:
The Obama administration is crediting its anti-recession stimulus plan with creating up to 50,000 jobs on dozens of wind farms, even though many of those wind farms were built before the stimulus money began to flow or even before President Barack Obama was inaugurated.
Out of 70 major wind farms that received the $4.4 billion in federal energy grants through the stimulus program, public records show that 11, which received a total of $600 million, erected their wind towers during the Bush administration. And a total of 19 wind farms, which received $1.3 billion, were built before any of the stimulus money was distributed. ( See a list of the projects here.)
Yet all the jobs at these wind farms are counted in the administration’s figures for jobs created by the stimulus.
And the cost of that electricity?
ReplyDeleteI wonder why that is never mentioned???
They won't tell you that wind turbines are only capable of generating 30% of their rated capacity and always require backup, so they can't pay for themselves and end up costing three times that of convention methods. Its a rip off all away around.
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