Huh?
Perry and Schwarzenegger jumped on the clean energy band-wagon, signing laws that mandated x% of electricity come from renewable energy. In Texas’s case, the law favors wind. Who were those lobbying for this change? Enron and T. Boone Pickens were the most prominent. Who was to benefit from these mandates? I think you know the answer.
Now that the mandates are in place (see RPS), and the ante has been upped a few more times, the federal (taxpayer) dollars are flowing to the same scum that pushed this through. To get federal dollars, they’ve greased the skids with folks like Pelosi who was exposed for benefitting from the federal subsidies. They also rallied for billions in bond issues to fund their follies (in California’s case, voters told Pickens to shove it). In Texas, they’re going crazy, even using eminent domain to seize land for windmills.
Google will give you a lot more. It’s been a decade-long disgrace. Perry is often found touting the world’s largest windfarms, failing to mention the taxpayer dollars squandered for an inefficient energy source. Of course, when the dollars go to the likes of Pickens, who in turn funds the campaigns and careers of folks like Perry, I don’t think they think of it as “squandered.”
When I used the word “swindle” above, I was not aware of this article. But it’s a good one. It shows the overreach of these thugs in state and federal government to advance their green agenda and enrich their benefactors.
http://www.masterresource.org/2011/03/texas-wind-swindle-i/
That website appears to have a lot more good articles on the subject.