Down 71% WTF Anyway

I wish this was a number on the Pentagon"s budget but not in our lifetime kiddies. This number concerns wind power.

The wind power industry added just 700 megawatts of power nationally during the first half of the year, a 71 percent drop from a year ago.

There were no new installations completed in Iowa during the period and no sites are under construction, although the state remained No. 2 in total wind generation capacity with 3,670 megawatts, according to the American Wind Energy Association.

No. 1 Texas added 202 megawatts in the first half of the year to extend its total capacity to 9,708.

About 5,000 megawatts of capacity are under construction nationally ahead of the expiration of a grant program created by the 2009 stimulus bill.

However, industry officials say the industry will continue to slow down unless Congress enacts a national renewable electricity mandate that would reassure investors that there will be a market for additional wind power.

“The numbers are dismal. They’re getting worse,” said Denise Bode, CEO of the association.

I been sitting here and just don't know what to really say. Why in the fuck do I have to get this kind of news?

What we should be reading is #'s 10 times the amount above but on the other side of the equation. That our country's Long Term Energy Independence Plan is in full force. That huge numbers of wind and solar projects are ongoing all over the country with many other programs implemented to reach the goal of energy independence from oil in 10 years.

Something like that-know what I mean. We're not going to get that. We were never ever going to get any legislation even close to that.  How bad we need quality legislation in these times!