Paying People to use Green 'Lectricity

For some reason, John Stossel questions government’s ability to run health care:

Now I hear about another absurd green energy subsidy: government subsidizes wind farmers so much that, in Western Texas, they run the turbines even when nobody wants electricity. because the grid there has a limited capacity, wind farms literally have to pay companies to take the extra energy: This April, the price of electricity in Western Texas was negative 23% of the time.

This follows up on his post on free golf carts (costing less than the tax break). I have seriously considered a golf cart. I live on a course and it would rock for trash runs and trips to the strip mall 3/4 mile across the course. Hey, free stuff from the gub'mint! Go Obama!!

But they'll rock at health care Posted by John Kranz at October 22, 2009 6:20 PM