“Chasing After the Wind” A Net LOSER for Wyoming County, and ALL American Taxpayers & Ratepayers
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8/25/13 Warsaw Penny Saver - Page
6/7:
“Chasing After the Wind”
A Net LOSER for Wyoming County,
and ALL American
Taxpayers & Ratepayers
As
we witness another Wyoming County Town (Orangeville) being turned into an
industrial wind factory, the Wyoming County Board of Supervisors has informed
us that "Wyoming Co. has 'little choice' but
to waive NY's property tax cap."
This
confirms what NYS Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli pointed out in a May 2, 2012 news
article: Giving Multi-Billion dollar corporations
Payment-In-Lieu-Of-Taxes agreements (PILOTs), "effectively shifts the burden of taxation onto local residents and small
businesses." (See more at: http://tinyurl.com/d6t2aps)
Mr.
DiNapoli was exactly right. Invenergy and their ilk are smiling all the way to
the bank, while the rest of us get to pick up their share of the tab.
If that
wasn’t bad enough, NYS Comptroller
DiNapoli also pointed out that these Millions of Dollars in “tax breaks have NOT been effective in
creating jobs.”
No new
jobs. Higher property taxes. No sense of community due to the “Hurray me – Tough luck for you”
mentality evident in the wind debacle. Is it any wonder many people are
leaving New York State?
When one of
the Big Wind salesmen was overheard to say in a local restaurant in Wyoming
County years ago, "We're going to get rich off of these hicks," they
were right. Big Wind is getting
richer, while we are all getting poorer - thanks to the help they've
received from elected officials at every level who are selling out our Towns
and their residents from within.
Perhaps
it’s time citizens demanded their local officials first pass a math and reading
comprehension test before being allowed to run for office. "Public
servants" in charge of spending OUR money first need to know how to
morally and competently run a successful business - which means knowing how to
balance the books without having to sell the entire Town out for what amounts
to a complete FRAUD!
The REALITY of New York Wind
Consider
the readily available information we've been sharing for years:
The actual output
(Capacity Factor) of NY’s 16 wind factories in 2012 was 23.5%. Any other piece of
equipment that had such an abysmal performance record would have been dubbed
a LEMON and relegated to the trash
heap a long time ago.
Consider
the fact that ONE
single 450 MW gas-fired combined cycle generating unit located near New York City (where the
power is needed in NYS), operating at only a 60% capacity factor, could have
supplied more electricity than all of NYS's wind factories combined - at approximately
1/4 of the capital cost of the wind factories, and WITHOUT the added costs of
transmission lines to NYC.
Furthermore,
that ONE single 450 MW gas-fired combined cycle generating unit would have
significantly reduced CO2 emissions and created far more permanent jobs in New
York State –
WITHOUT all the civil discord, environmental
degradation, negative human
health impacts,
massive bird and bat mortality,
and the property value losses that sprawling wind factories create - both at
the 'wind farm' sites, and due to all the added transmission lines that must be
added to New York City.
Wind's
unreliable, diffuse energy provides NO modern power - period. As William
Tucker explains in his essay, Understanding E = mc2:
“Wind has less than 1/10th the energy
density of wood, wood half the density of coal and coal
half the density of octane. Altogether they differ by a factor of about
50. Nuclear has 2 million times
the energy density of gasoline.... Our energy future largely depends on
grasping the significance of this differential."
(See more at: http://tinyurl.com/lr4lprb , www.WiseEnergy.org/ , and www.EnergyPresentation.org/)
If our state and local “representatives” goal is to chase more people and businesses
out of New York State by:
1.) destroying the natural beauty and wildlife of rural New York State;
2.) ignoring the health, safety and welfare of area citizens;
3.) devaluing NYS citizens' most expensive life investments - their homes; and
4.) "skyrocketing" our tax and electricity rates.......
Pursuing the ‘green’ energy boondoggle of wind power is a sure means to that end.
Consider your mission accomplished. Such a senseless, crying shame!
As
wise old Solomon told us in Ecclesiastes,
“Surely
this also is vanity and chasing after the wind.”
Mary
Kay Barton
Mary Kay is a life-long NYS resident, small business owner, retired Health Educator,
Friend & Supporter of the citizens of ‘Clear Skies Over Orangeville’
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