Question by FOOD FIGHT!: 833.33 cents per home for years of free wind energy sounds pretty good to me. How about you?
This is actually an anti-green power article run by ABC complaining that 30% of the wind turbines are made in China. At this price I do not really care that much. The electricity will be made and used here and it is cheap.
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/obama-stimulus-money-spent-overseas/story?id=10002592
The program has already spent $ 2 billion, funding enough projects to power 2.4 million homes. Any wind farm created in the U.S. is eligible for stimulus money to put up wind turbines, regardless of where those massive structures are made. Each turbine costs about $ 3 million, and reaches 40 stories into the sky.
A minimum of 70 percent of each wind turbine [...] will be wholly manufactured in the United States and made entirely of American steel. It is incorrect to assume that the hundreds of additional jobs created aside from the direct construction and operation of the Texas plant would be outside the U.S.,” said Cappy McGarr, managing partner for the U.S. Renewable Energy Group.
The frustrated senators are concerned, though, that some of the money is also paying for manufacturing jobs in China, and they are pushing a bill requiring that stimulus projects create jobs in the United States. They want the wind energy program stopped before the Chinese turbine manufacturers can collect any money.
These are already built at this price.
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Answer by John W
Then who will bribe Senators and Congresspeople with money from oil profits?
I bet you Congress will drag their heels on this one… too much money lost from the oil lobby.
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facts and figures do not matter as long as the filthy rich are allowed to give Congressmen money and career promotions to get what they want. it is a flawed system of government that does not care about the well-being of its citizens, only the bank accounts of the wealthiest.
It’s a great idea, once it gets through the court process after environmentalists sue the person who wants to build the wind farm. Of course, most of these investors will be forced to pay millions of dollars in legal fees, often times giving up along the way.
Environmentalists want the wind turbines, but they don’t want to see them, hear them, or locate them where birds fly or where fish swim. That makes it kind of difficult, no?
If you want to argue that the environmental benefits of wind power are worth the cost, go ahead. That’s debatable, but at least it’s a viable argument. But arguing that it makes economic sense is absurd. “Creating” jobs through government subsidies is an illusion.
The whole point of the stimulus was to provide US workers jobs, or so they said.
Are you that ignorant that you cannot understand that?
Well if you’re paying for it, it’s not free…(were you going for ‘unlimited’?)
free leccy all round!! errr, I mean unlimited 
but yeah, apart from that marvelous.
We just built a huge b*tching one in the uk
wish we all would go green.i think its time.we are killing our planet.you re so smart buddy…some one will always oppose a great idea.