Quote Originally Posted by Total_Blender View Post
It is... because the wind farms will need American workers to assemble the turbines once they are manufactured, and the wind farms that are being built will be operated and maintained by American workers. And wind power also cuts our dependence on dirty forms of energy like coal, as well as foreign oil.

Also, only when we have a working knowledge of wind power and the specifics of its application within the US, can we probably proceed to manufacture our own equipment for it. Right now we don't have any American sourced equipment that works, and building our own from scratch would be a shot in the dark.

And if it were not for the use of foreign labor the hardware portion of this project might cost billions more.
Incorrect. We already have the knowledge of wind power, and its specifics. We already can manufacture wind turbines here, and have large amounts of them deployed in Texas already.

I'm sure that China can make them cheaper, as their labor is cheaper. That does not help our economy. You would only increase the trade deficit.