Debunking the Renewables Disinformation Campaign

[Beartracks]

1. Heard an anti-wind radio ad in Oklahoma this week.

Barry Switzer (famous former Okla Univ coach) speaks over the background sound of a wind turbine, and explains that's the sound of money being siphoned from the state's budget. Somehow, in a manner which he doesn't explain, government subsidies to the wind industry are stealing needed supplies from children in Oklahoma's schools because the energy goes elsewhere.

Yeah, I know:

I presume the oil and gas industry is behind the ad, but it def hits a bunch of the conservative buttons: Big Gubmint; some vague allusion to Taxes; icky Renewables; and Our Children. As if Oklahoma has an awesome track record of prioritizing education whenever the state gets an economic windfall.

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