Posted on 08/14/2012 12:29:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Barack Obama assailed rival Mitt Romney's opposition to tax supports for wind power, delivering an Iowa-specific critique Tuesday on the Republican challenger in that crucial Midwestern state. Obama's deputy criticized GOP budget plans to overhaul Medicare, cut trillions of dollars from social programs and lower taxes on high-income taxpayers.
Iowa is a center of wind energy production in the United States and the Obama administration credits tax breaks for helping build that industry. Obama has called on Congress to extend the breaks. Romney opposes it.
Obama, on the second of a three-day Iowa bus tour, noted that Romney once dismissed wind power by saying "you can't drive a car with a windmill on it."(continued)
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Once upon a time ......
On a par with the winter income as a center of ski tourism.
Why do the windies need tax breaks? Make the bass turds “pay their fair share” like everybody else.
Iowa is a center of wind energy production in the United States and the Obama administration credits tax breaks for helping build that industry. Obama has called on Congress to extend the breaks. Romney opposes it.
Tax Credits to start a program - YES
Tax Credits to RUN a program after it is up and running- NO
If the product is good it will make a profit and someone will do it. If the product is not good and can not make a profit it should go under.......
Those windmills are about the ugliest structures in the American scene — almost as ugly as mosques.
Personally, I think massive wind farms are responsible for changing normal weather patterns and, therefore, all the freaky weather that the MSM is fixated on.
Yup, you’re right.
The air turbulence created downstream from the windmill doesn’t allow cold air to settle at ground level during the night time hours.
The result is that the ground temperature continues to rise.
“When the claim of hundreds of thousands, or even
millions, of green jobs are used as the basis for
billions in new government spending, we ought to
insist that those claims be backed by transparent
documentation and sound methodology, not
implausible assumptions and inconsistent
definitions.”
Dr. Andrew Morriss, Professor of Law & Business at University of
Illinois’ Institute for Government & Public Affairs, March 16, 2011
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