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To: FJB who wrote (51042)5/10/2014 1:49:05 PM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86355
 
Why not American firms? Raygun.

Reagan is a key reason we have only about one-sixth of the soaring global market for windpower — an industry we once dominated: “President Reagan cut the renewable energy R&D budget 85% after he took office and eliminated the wind investment tax credit in 1986. This was pretty much the death of most of the US wind industry” see “ Anti-wind McCain delivers climate remarks at foreign wind company“).

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To: FJB who wrote (51042)5/10/2014 3:02:19 PM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 86355
 
Rat thinks Ronald Reagan is alive and sitting in the Oval Office:

The U.S. federal government has awarded a Chinese-backed energy firm