In Wyoming and White House, they call the wind pariah
Some of the nation’s fiercest winds tear across the 100-odd miles separating Casper and Rawlins, making Wyoming a potential colossus of wind power. So why is Wyoming the only state to tax wind power? Ask the politicians representing America’s biggest producer of coal. Or simpler, check their donor list.
“There is a real feeling that Wyoming is not open for business for wind,” a frustrated economic development official from Casper told a conference in Laramie.
Despite the tax on wind power, there are plans to build enormous wind facilities in Wyoming. Imagine the business possibilities if the state stopped taxing what other places pay subsidies to build.
Promoters of fossil fuels have long argued that wind and solar power are just too expensive and unreliable to serve as major sources of energy. But if that’s the case, why fight them? Why not sit back and let market forces sink them as pipe dreams?
Because that is no longer the case. Renewable energy has become competitive, and the fossil fuel producers know it.
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but a lot blew through there.
and actually, the antelope depend on the wind rearranging the snow to permit them to graze through the winter. 'Tis an ill wind that blows nobody any good. 
