Iowa Sen. Grassley defends wind energy after Trump mocks ‘stupid windmills’ in Michigan speech. 60% of Iowa’s electricity now comes from wind power, making the state the second-largest wind energy producer in the country. “The president isn’t going to have any say in what we do to wind energy”

https://www.kcci.com/article/grassley-defends-wind-energy-after-trump-mocks-stupid-windmills-in-michigan-speech/64639295

by mafco

8 comments

  1. When you drive through Iowa, Kansas Illinois and eastern Colorado you see so many. Everyone has row crops growing right up to the base of the turbine. In Colorado it’s hay, but that’s what is growing on the land without turbines in the sane area.

  2. Look, President Numbnuts is just posturing here. Renewables have been painted a “leftist” energy source for 20 years now, largely because of propaganda tactics from big oil. As such, turbines are easy to point to and politicize, especially when they’re not spinning due to congestion on the grid (the much larger problem).

    At the end of the day, renewables are cheap to install and maintain. Cheap = demand. Solar, wind and BESS aren’t going anywhere. This is domestic power, being produced on American soil, and there’s heaps of money to be made by all parties involved (landowners, developers, owner/operators). Grassley gets it

  3. Old man Grassley will continue to roll over for Trump, who doesn’t even know if he needs to uphold the constitution.

  5. Grassley is right ONCE in his 85 years (or however old that bellend is).

  6. All turbines need an energy source to rotate and power a generator. What’s best for that? Natural gas? Steam from coal? Nuke? Any other fossil fuel? Or free wind? Free wind can be used by any human being … and is. So let’s go after wind power cause it‘s bad and dumb and those things just go round and round. Ok grandpa. How on earth is this uneducated rube running the joint. Every day he just steps in it and it don’t matter cause his propaganda arm will just let it slip down the drain. Meanwhile it’s all sleepy Joe’s fault, all day every day…until he wants credit for it.

  7. It’s because you can’t monetize it long-term. This is all about money for his buddies. There’s no continued fuel cost.

  8. finally some of these POS are showing some back bone – not until their money is threatened

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