mdmrjsds

Wind Power, Big and Small

Two things:

You said:
... oil prices may have fallen from their summer highs, but they are hovering around $100 a barrel, still almost double the price from two years ago. ...

Wind and oil supply disjoint markets. The price of oil is irrelevant to whether we should install wind until electricity can be fed through to transportation, where oil is used. Or, to put it another way, at this point 100% of our electricity could come from wind and it would make no difference in our oil usage.

You said:
... Yet while action needs to be taken, tax credits that would support the U.S. wind industry are in danger of not being renewed by Congress. ...

It is far from clear that action needs to be taken, at least here. The place that action needs to be taken is in making transportation using oil more expensive on a gradually increasing and consistent basis so that alternatives can enter the marketplace. But that, as I've argued above, has nothing to do with wind and solar, until there is a connection between electricity and transportation.

So any incentives should be towards linking electricity and transportation in some way. *That* is the current bottleneck.