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Dear Editor:

A tactic used by hostage takers is to create a sense of urgency to get their demands met as soon as possible. It would go something like this. “You had better pay the ransom we are demanding or your wife and children are going to have their heads chopped off.”

The same hostage drama is playing out in America right now. “If we do not pass this multi billion, trillion, gazillion dollar legislation, America will completely fall apart because I, Barack H. Obama said so.” And life goes on. Not to mention he has never run so much as a lemonade stand.

Rarely does a community have the opportunity to actually have a say in what happens that will directly impact them. We in Whitley County, Indiana have that opportunity before us. It is the Wind Energy Project. It has to be pointed out that the ordinance being written by our Commissioners has been some process. I give them credit because they deserve it for having to write the ordinance for the greater good of all concerned.

So, why do I liken this project to hostages? Because we are being held hostages by the United States Government who want to promote anything “green” for the very upper crust cronyism Obama and his minions have been railing against since he came into office.

So a wind farm sounds really great, does it not? Free, clean energy. No carbon footprint. No pollution. But wait, how much will my electric bill be reduced? Answer: Not one red cent! All energy produced by these turbines in Whitley County, Indiana get put “into the grid.” Our energy created here in Whitley County gets sent to New York. No Pollution: Not so. Currently there are 14,000 wind turbines that have been abandoned in the United States. And why would that be? Subsidies. As soon as the subsidies expire, the wind farms that you and I built through extracted funds, are just left behind by the builders who sucked the tax subsidies out of the Government, and then left. Imagine the landscape of beautiful Whitley County, Indiana when the cash cow  runs out and the turbines are sitting there doing nothing. They then become what the “green” people hate. “Green Junk.” An environmental disaster. Leaking oil. Killing birds. Disrupting ground water, and wildlife. What a great deal we got. Besides, if wind energy was such a great idea, why would it need government subsidies? It is a bubble that will burst as soon as the government subsidies stop. Plain and simple.

Wind is not the most important thing about wind turbines. It is all about the tax subsidies. The blades churn until the money runs out. Plain and simple. The entire “green” thing got started by the non-existent problem of “Global Warming.” But the way, this very expensive energy source does not necessarily work if the wind is too strong, not strong enough, or maybe even if it is too cold.

Here is the long, and short of the whole debate. Climategate 2.0. The scandal surrounding a second batch of embarrassing e-mails from “climate scientists” leaked recently has dealt another serious blow to the foundation of it all - - - United Nations backed global warming alarmism.

An article printed in “Natural News” by Jonathon Benson put it best. He said . . . “the whole wind energy mess just further illustrates how the American people have been played by their elected officials who bought into the global warming hysteria that spawned the push for wind energy in the first place. And now that the renewable energy tax subsidies are gradually coming to an end in some places, the true financial and economic viability, or lack of wind energy, is on display for the world to see.”

As a person being held hostage I am mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. The land owners in Whitley County who will reap a monetary gain at the financial alter have sacrificed the rest of us. If they are farm owners, then this is just another government hand out to them in addition to any “farm subsidies” they have received over the years. They should be made to dismantle the turbines when the subsidies run out, and reclaim the land to its natural state, at their own expense.

Wind Farm in Whitley County, Indiana? Not wanted by this hostage. Set back in ordinance? How about One Mile? Let your County Commissioners know what you think. Be respectful of them, but at least let them know. Don’t pay the ransom.

Dave Cooper,

Churubusco