The Shining City Upon a Hill

[BillyCarpenter]

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If by "his opponents" you mean people illegally blocking streets and basically shutting down a city, then yup.

You're describing Black Lives Matter. They did all of that plus they burned down police stations and other businesses.

Did you support locking them up and seizing their bank accounts? No you did not. In fact, you lied and said they were peaceful and that Antifa didn't exist. Liar.


You only support your dictator - Trudeau.

[Copier Addict]

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You're describing Black Lives Matter. They did all of that plus they burned down police stations and other businesses.

Did you support locking them up and seizing their bank accounts? No you did not. In fact, you lied and said they were peaceful and that Antifa didn't exist. Liar.


You only support your dictator - Trudeau.

You are confusing understanding something and supporting something.

On the other hand, you do support someone who actually praised putin's invasion of Ukraine. How low can one person get?

[BillyCarpenter]

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You are confusing understanding something and supporting something.

I understand that you're full of shit.

[Copier Addict]

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I understand that you're full of shit.

Oh!!! Once again you get slapped down and out come the insults. Lol So predictable.

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You CAN'T win when the other guy an Idiot

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[Phil B.]

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You CAN'T win when the other guy an Idiot

Y'all seemed to have won with an idiot at the helm... but that's what happens when you cheat.

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[Phil B.]

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NY Appeals Court Shuts Down New Congressional Map Designed to 'Favor Democrats'

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Y'all seemed to have won with an idiot at the helm... but that's what happens when you cheat.

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NY Appeals Court Shuts Down New Congressional Map Designed to 'Favor Democrats'

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Someone needs to send that Court down to Florida.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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NY Appeals Court Shuts Down New Congressional Map Designed to 'Favor Democrats'

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... exactly what Republican Gov DeSantis in Florida enacted today by redistricting congressional maps to make it very difficult for Democrats to win no more than 8/28 seats.

[SalesServiceGuy]

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Y'all seemed to have won with an idiot at the helm... but that's what happens when you cheat.

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... what is worse is Republicans never stop cheating because they know demographics are working against them everyday as America turns "browner" with every passing year.

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‘The sound of money’: Wind energy is booming in deep-red Republican states


Driving west from Oklahoma City to the outskirts of Weatherford, wind turbines don’t just dot the landscape; they dominate it.

From oil and gas booms and busts to heavy rains followed by drought, Oklahoma is no stranger to extremes. One constant is the wind, which is so bracingly strong that what locals call a breeze will send hats flying and whip open car doors suddenly.

“We’ve always had the wind in Oklahoma,” said Melva Dickey, a 91-year-old landowner and retired farmer.

Dickey leases her land to Ohio-based utility American Electric Power. With four turbines on her property, she — along with more than 300 other landowners — are harnessing the state’s most plentiful natural resource.

Far from the coasts, wind energy is thriving here in America’s heartland, on the vast plains of Oklahoma, Texas and Nebraska. Long an area devoted to oil and gas, Western Oklahoma is now home to one of the largest wind farms in the world.

The Traverse wind farm is made up of 356 turbines — each rising about 300 feet above the ground and spread out across 220,000 acres. The turbines tower over shimmering fields of wheat and give shade to cattle munching on hay. As they spin, they generate close to 1 gigawatt of energy; together with two other AEP-owned wind farms nearby, the trio will make enough electricity to power 440,000 homes each year.

Wind turbines are an icon for the energy transition and the subject of heated debate in Washington. They’ve been mocked by prominent members of the GOP, including former President Donald Trump, who recently called wind the “worst form of energy.”

Weatherford Mayor Mike Brown said that for the landowners in Western Oklahoma, the sound of a huge metal blade cutting through the atmosphere is “the sound of money.” For people who have long lived with wind whipping across their flat land, using it to make electricity is common sense.

“People look at it like, ‘Okay, I don’t see the negative of it,’” Brown said. “The landowners are benefiting; we’ve benefitted from the workers. It’s ‘how does it affect us?’ Some things we can’t control, this is something we can.”

The farmers who lease their land for wind energy hope it brings new financial stability to the area. AEP will deliver 6-month payments to landowners based on how much electricity their turbines generate, as well as a base payment. Even people leasing land without a turbine on it will get a yearly check.

“As long as they’re spinning, they’re making us money,” said Scott Hampton, who farms a small herd of cattle and works at the local school. “In my view, it’s not a fight; it’s what can we do that’s good for the environment.”

A red-state boom

Wind energy is on the brink of a massive expansion in the next few years, data from the US Energy Information Administration shows. Of the wind projects becoming operational this year, Traverse is by far the biggest.

Wind energy is the fourth-largest electricity source behind natural gas, coal and nuclear. Wind generated near 380 terawatt-hours of energy in 2021, according to the EIA, which projects another 7.6 gigawatts of utility-scale wind will be brought online this year (a terawatt is a thousand times bigger than a gigawatt).

Much of the country’s current wind capacity is on land, and President Joe Biden’s administration is focusing on building off the coasts, with a goal of getting 30 gigawatts of offshore wind energy online by the end of the decade. Still, many of the biggest offshore projects won’t come online until 2024 at the earliest.

While the offshore wind industry has been particularly slow to get off the ground — driven in part by objections from some wealthy and well-connected Democrats and Republicans alike that wind turbines ruin the view — wind energy is booming in deep-red Republican states in the central US.
Texas, in addition to being an oil and gas giant, is also a wind behemoth. In 2020, Texas generated more electricity from wind than Iowa, Kansas, and Oklahoma — the next three highest states — combined, according to the EIA. Still, because Texas is massive and both generates and uses the most total electricity out of any state in the nation, wind only accounted for 20% of its generated electricity.

Wind generated a higher proportion of electricity in Iowa (57%), Kansas (44%), and Oklahoma (36%). And in the Southwest Power Pool — which is the grid for Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and other states — renewable power is steadily growing.

Non-hydropower renewables generated nearly 94 billion kilowatt-hours on that grid in 2021 and are poised to grow to nearly 115 billion kilowatt-hours by 2023, according to the EIA. In comparison, non-hydro renewables generated just 7 billion kilowatt-hours for New York’s grid in 2021.

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