We could easily be bleeding a trillion bucks a year from our economy just to purchase oil on the global market.

Electricity from that type of windmill will cost the factory between 10 and 20 million per year. That’s electricity alone. While if they are supplied with oil burning electrical plant they will pay only about 2 million. A difference of 8 to 18 million dollars just for electricity alone.

A couple of South American countries are building wind turbines with the intention of exporting electrical energy for profit.

Maybe the US could offer to sell somebody coal…

http://ecoworldly.com/2008/07/03/energy-experts-say-chinas-wind-energy-could-grow-1667-by-2020/

http://www.metaefficient.com/news/new-record-worlds-largest-wind-turbine-7-megawatts.html

How many millions of watts does that hypothetical factory need?

There is, however, a very serious problem with the argument that the nation or the human race are going to get much farther fueling rapidly expanding industrialization with 19th Century energy technologies, dependent upon escallating the rate of consumption of a rapidly diminishing global supply of petroleum. That’s as dead end as any road gets, and as wrong-headed as planning for the future comes

BTW, Alex Jones’ film THE OBAMA DECEPTION (on infowars.com or on Sugar n’Spice’s website) is finally out, and as far as conspiracy analysis goes, it offers much food for thought. Jones provides a provocative history of the real power brokers behind the world scene and tries to fill in the gaps concerning the hidden agenda driving the Obama “presidency.” Webster Tarpley, the historian and Obama’s unofficial biographer, also provides historical analysis on the geopolitics of world finance, etc.

But just for a bit of wicked fun, I can’t resist this hilarious passage from Hal Ashby’s BEING THERE:

Pres. “Bobby”: Mr. Gardner, do you agree [...] that we can stimulate growth through temporary incentives?

Chauncey Gardener: As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden. [....] In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.

Pres. “Bobby”: Spring and summer. [....] Then fall and winter.

Ben Rand: I think what our insightful young friend is saying is that we welcome the inevitable seasons of nature, but we’re upset by the seasons of our economy.

[....]

Pres. “Bobby”: Hm. Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I’ve heard in a very, very long time. [....] I admire your good, solid sense. That’s precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.

1 corner gas station packs the power of thousands upon thousands of solar panels and wind turbines operating for 5 years.

Stop the stupidity, please.

President “Bobby”: Mr. Gardner, do you agree with Ben, or do you think that we can stimulate growth through temporary incentives?
[Long pause]
Chance the Gardener: As long as the roots are not severed, all is well. And all will be well in the garden.
President “Bobby”: In the garden.
Chance the Gardener: Yes. In the garden, growth has it seasons. First comes spring and summer, but then we have fall and winter. And then we get spring and summer again.
President “Bobby”: Spring and summer.
Chance the Gardener: Yes.
President “Bobby”: Then fall and winter.
Chance the Gardener: Yes.
Benjamin Rand: I think what our insightful young friend is saying is that we welcome the inevitable seasons of nature, but we’re upset by the seasons of our economy.
Chance the Gardener: Yes! There will be growth in the spring!
Benjamin Rand: Hmm!
Chance the Gardener: Hmm!
President “Bobby”: Hm. Well, Mr. Gardner, I must admit that is one of the most refreshing and optimistic statements I’ve heard in a very, very long time.
[Benjamin Rand applauds]
President “Bobby”: I admire your good, solid sense. That’s precisely what we lack on Capitol Hill.

(I will remind you that at the end of the movie, Chance–whom we have all basically come to see as a fool–walks out across the surface of a pond while no one else is watching, and pauses briefly to test its depth with his rolled up umbrella.)

If we switched over to domestic alternative energy during the next 10 years–large scale solar and wind–we’d not only have the permanent domestic jobs related to the transition, but at least $700 billion per year remaining in the U.S. economy. We’d be providing unlimited cheap energy to power American reindustrialization and agriculture. We’d also be in a position to export the technology to the rest of the world. Alterntaive energy technology will be the next big boom industry, and it’s going to be booming on a global scale.

We’re getting ready to do this. It’s part of the stimulus package. Carbon tax is also part of the plan. It’s intended not just as a climate change response, but to force the transition to alternative energy into high gear. The smart grid is also part of the plan.

A lot of people don’t seem to have noticed how all of this fits together. They’re looking at the individual pieces of the puzzle as if they’re unrelated policy decision. None of it is random. It’s understanding how the pieces all fit together to form a picture that makes me feel very positive about America’s economic future, in spite of our current problems.