Damn That George Bush!

Via Natalie Solent comes this:

A global shortage of
turbines and other key pieces of equipment needed by the burgeoning
wind power industry is causing delays to many schemes needed by the
British government to meet its CO2 reduction targets.

Part
of the problem is blamed on the US president, George Bush, who has
agreed on a raft of tax credits for the American wind industry, which
is causing a construction boom when suppliers are already overstretched.

There are hopes that the
problems will be short-lived but Mr Edge said they did raise new
questions about the government’s ability to meet its targets on cutting
carbon dioxide output to counter global warming.

Just too, too, giggletastic.

We won’t meet CO2 targets by building windmills because too many people are building windmills.

You will also want to see Scott’s response.

6 responses

  1. The Remittance Man Avatar
    The Remittance Man

    The last statement’s not quite right. In fact we won’t meet CO2 targets by building windmills because too many Americans are building windmills because their government is encouraging them to do it.
    That would be the same government run by oil-fixated, capitalist, hate-the-environment, kill-the-bunnies George Bush would it? Or has he been abducted by aliens and replaced by an evil, love-the trees clone?
    Laugh? I nearly shot the garden boy.
    RM

  2. I can’t help wondering how much fossil fuel it takes to cast each of those enormous turbine blades.
    Also, it’s amazing how one lightning strike can leave them so risibly and pathetically bedraggled…

  3. Andrew Duffin Avatar
    Andrew Duffin

    Why pick on George Bush’s tax incentives?
    Blair’s tax breaks are even more generous – that’s the only reason these eyesores get built anywhere at all.

  4. I’m glad the world realizes that Bush is to blame for the shortage of turbine blades.
    Try to look at it this way. Whether the turbine is producing power in the US or in the UK it still replaces the same amount of fossil fuel. And that is supposed to be the object of alternative power.
    And by subsidizing the wind power industry the US ultimately lowers the equipment costs in other nations.
    So those who really want to reduce greenhouse emissions should build windpower at the most effective points anywhere in the world rather than the most effective spots within their own country.

  5. Environmentalism: One Pair of Trousers to the ….

    Thank goodness others caught this. Fits perfectly with the radical left agenda of “my shoelaces broke, ‘Bush’ is to blame”:

  6. K, you’re mistaken in your last paragraph. The moral benefits of renewable energy accrue to the country that devotes the most non-renewable resources to achieving it. It is grossly unfair of Bush to horn in on those moral benefits because, as is universally acknowledged, he is a mean man and, more damningly yet, he sometimes looks unattractive in photographs.

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