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It is an inconvenient truth that it is the major oil companies that have been behind the push for
tax breaks to build wind farms in oil producing states, such as Texas.
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The cheap energy that wind farms produce and the lack of power transmission lines in that region
of the cap rock country in the west of Texas have forced the overbuilt wind farm utilities to sell
their surplus electricity to the major oil pumping industry at a deep discount, which are only made
possible by large tax incentives by the State of Texas Public Utility Commission originally at the
behest of then governor, George Bush.
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This continuing subsidization policy had the effect of opening up deep oil reserves that were
formerly capped as too expensive. With cheap wind power it is cost effective to electric
pump-jack oil out of their leased reserves. Exxon and Valero, to name a few, have massive oil
holdings in the "cap rock" country of West Texas. In that region they have the shadows of Wind
Turbines cast directly upon their lately very active electric powered pump-jacks and they are
enjoying unprecedented profits as a result. None of this cheap energy benefits any major city or
group of private citizens. It also contributes to our national carbon footprint by being used to
make more oil available for burning and venting into the atmosphere in one form or another, as
well as using up more precious fresh water for oil product manufacturing. The original policy
announcements stated that wind farms were for the long term benefit of all Texas, to make that
state more competitive in the future. It has only made a relatively very small cadre of Texas based
oil company shareholders rich, however.
.
We at Green_Metroplex are not against big oil making profits by seeing opportunity for profits
from their domestic oil well reserves; shut down at the time by being too expensive to pump-jack
those wells and inject heated water and storing CO2 to increase production. But now that the
price of global oil has risen as India and China become more demanding of global crude oil - we do
not see the morality of holding the cheap wind-energy that oil companies hold captive such that
they continue to reap vast fortunes, because there is no adequate power grid system to share
the electric energy in other parts of the state or county.
.
Famous "former oilman," T. Boone Pickens, who admits his massive ranch in the Panhandle won't
sport "ugly, noisy wind-turbines," makes no bones that he intends to use cheap wind-energy to
power his "privately funded" water pumping lines from the panhandle to North Texas Cities
(D/FW) and electricity thanks to the eminent domain status that he garnered from the Texas
Public Utility Commission good Ole boys. With tax deferred status, right of public domain to
guarantee the push of water and power lines to a ready market as well as water from the Ogallala
Aquifer diverted east to those same water and electric power markets, how can he loose?
tax breaks to build wind farms in oil producing states, such as Texas.
.
The cheap energy that wind farms produce and the lack of power transmission lines in that region
of the cap rock country in the west of Texas have forced the overbuilt wind farm utilities to sell
their surplus electricity to the major oil pumping industry at a deep discount, which are only made
possible by large tax incentives by the State of Texas Public Utility Commission originally at the
behest of then governor, George Bush.
.
This continuing subsidization policy had the effect of opening up deep oil reserves that were
formerly capped as too expensive. With cheap wind power it is cost effective to electric
pump-jack oil out of their leased reserves. Exxon and Valero, to name a few, have massive oil
holdings in the "cap rock" country of West Texas. In that region they have the shadows of Wind
Turbines cast directly upon their lately very active electric powered pump-jacks and they are
enjoying unprecedented profits as a result. None of this cheap energy benefits any major city or
group of private citizens. It also contributes to our national carbon footprint by being used to
make more oil available for burning and venting into the atmosphere in one form or another, as
well as using up more precious fresh water for oil product manufacturing. The original policy
announcements stated that wind farms were for the long term benefit of all Texas, to make that
state more competitive in the future. It has only made a relatively very small cadre of Texas based
oil company shareholders rich, however.
.
We at Green_Metroplex are not against big oil making profits by seeing opportunity for profits
from their domestic oil well reserves; shut down at the time by being too expensive to pump-jack
those wells and inject heated water and storing CO2 to increase production. But now that the
price of global oil has risen as India and China become more demanding of global crude oil - we do
not see the morality of holding the cheap wind-energy that oil companies hold captive such that
they continue to reap vast fortunes, because there is no adequate power grid system to share
the electric energy in other parts of the state or county.
.
Famous "former oilman," T. Boone Pickens, who admits his massive ranch in the Panhandle won't
sport "ugly, noisy wind-turbines," makes no bones that he intends to use cheap wind-energy to
power his "privately funded" water pumping lines from the panhandle to North Texas Cities
(D/FW) and electricity thanks to the eminent domain status that he garnered from the Texas
Public Utility Commission good Ole boys. With tax deferred status, right of public domain to
guarantee the push of water and power lines to a ready market as well as water from the Ogallala
Aquifer diverted east to those same water and electric power markets, how can he loose?
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