February 6, 2008
Dear Senator
Re: Economic Stimulus Bill
I strongly object to the inclusion of industrial wind tax extensions in the Stimulus Bill which is being considered. While supporting many forms of alternative energy such as biomass, hydro, landfill gas, and solar; I urge the Senate to strip out any preferential incentives for ill-conceived and improper sited wind projects.
It is crucial that you urge fellow Republican Senators to vote against the Baucus/Grassley bill to sneak in the federal credits into the Economic Stimulus Plan. Hold firm and demand that the House Bill is the version that passes.
The subsidies for wind energy are a gross misuse of public money. The public is being taxed unfairly with the proceeds given to foreign owned wind developers to industrialize our rural communities with mammoth giants that produce unreliable, minuscule amounts of expensive low quality electricity.
The turbines' impacts on the landscapes and lives of neighboring people is totally disproportionate to the meager contribution they make in providing unreliable energy and the pitiful savings they offer in CO2 reductions.
Wind power is wrong for our rural landscape and that those who pursue it are driven not by concern for the environment, but by the opportunity to pocket enormous profits offered by huge taxpayer subsidies that the state and federal government has encouraged and made possible.
The quote below is shocking:
Federal tax benefits pay as much as 65% of the capital cost of wind power projects in the United States.
Keith Martin, Chadbourne and Parke, LLP, Financing Wind Power conference, Dec. 3-5, 2003, New York, N.Y.
The main reason why there are dozens of companies attempting to develop wind farms here in NYS is because wind power is financially viable - and, short term, highly profitable for developers through multiple tax incentives, Empire Zone deals, and NYSERDA (New York State Energy Research and Development Authority) cash transfers while this financial burden is ultimately transferred to us, the abused NYS taxpayers. On top of this disgrace the Federal government is adding more disgusting financial incentives. Then, when all the attractive financial enhancements expire some day as they certainly will – worn out wind turbines will be abandoned and the behemoth eyesores will victimize the communities in which they exist - again. This all amounts to a highly taxpayer subsidized destruction of the countryside – that benefits mainly foreigners! Think America FIRST!
Please vote to end industrial wind tax extensions in the Stimulus Bill!
Sincerely,
Alan Isselhard
8135 North Huron Rd.
Wolcott, New York 14590
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