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Wind weasels don’t clean up their garbage!

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Here’s the Huffington Post’s take on the latest wind weasel shenanigans in Hawaii.

STT thinks it sounds like a job for Steve McGarrett and his faithful side-kick, Danny “Danno” Williams.

How Renewable Portfolio Standards Can Subvert Your Economy
Huffington Post Hawaii
Sally Kaye
10 September 2013

A strange thing happened on our way to a “clean energy” future in the U.S.: we’ve been hijacked by private developers whose primary interest is cashing in on state and federal subsidies and the guaranteed payback of a hefty return on investment, spawned by each state’s need to meet self-imposed renewable portfolio standards (RPS).

Sales propaganda aside, many of these developers could care less if their pet projects lower greenhouse gases or otherwise help the planet; they are simply capitalizing on the potential riches guaranteed by us, the rate and taxpayers.

Hawaii is the poster child for how a stiff RPS can spawn a…

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