As we’re all aware, Rush Limbaugh isn’t only an enemy of young, articulate women who wish to add their voice to American political discourse.
While he is now, finally, under serious pressure for his arrogant hatred going (yet) another step too far, Rush went on attack against clean energy today.
The problem with the Volt is just like all of Obama’s green energy, there’s no business there yet. There’s no solar energy business yet. There’s no wind energy yet. It’s not there yet. But we can’t have more oil. We can’t have cheaper gasoline prices.
Evidently putting solar panels on my roof had nothing to do with business.
Evidently the millions of American homes powered via wind turbines had nothing to do with “energy”.
Evidently the steel workers, installers, sales representatives, and the 100,000 plus in the wind and solar industries — in the United States alone — have nothing to do with business because “it’s not there yet”.
The best point made about Rush’s substantive abuse of truth on this issue:
“Solar is a $80 billion dollar global industry.
Put another way, that’s 32 times the 2008 US sales of OxyContin.”
Adam Browning
Vote Solar Initiative
If you can take the punishment, here’s Rush:
Some basic facts about wind energy that doesn’t exist from 2010
Wind power provided 26% of all new U.S. electric capacity in 2010.
There are over 400 wind-related manufacturing facilities in the U.S.
Wind power provided 2.3% of the U.S. electricity mix
In 2011, that non-existent solar energy, solar energy installations doubled in the United States. And, that sort of explosive growth could continue with the right policy initiatives.
To put Rush’s fossil foolish lust in perspective, when it comes to global investment,
In 2010, global investment in wind, solar, and biomass energy hit $187 billion, exceeding the $157 billion spent on fossil fuel energy
Somewhat mischaracterizing Limbaugh as acknowledging any role for clean energy, Brad Johnson at Think Progress Green put it this way:
Limbaugh is wrong. Clean energy isn’t just the future of the 21st century economy, it’s driving the present.