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