Liberal Revelation: Farmer Kids Don’t Want to Grow Corn…’They Want to Farm Wind!’
- Posted on June 11, 2012 at 1:54pm by
Benny Johnson
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The Blaze’s Kathleen D’Urso Contributed to this report.
As The Blaze previously reported, liberals assembled this weekend in Providence, Rhode Island, for Netroots Nation, an annual conference aimed at promoting the progressive cause. One panel, entitled “Handcuffs, Conventional Wisdom and Dirty Oil: Activism’s Big Win Against the Keystone XL Pipeline,” revealed an environmentalists concept for the future of farming in America.
Jane Fleming Kleeb
Panelist Jane Fleming Kleeb was instrumental in getting the Keystone Pipeline blocked by the President this last December. Her group, Bold Nebraska, coordinated opponents of the pipeline in the state that would have seen some estimated 13,000 new jobs if it would have passed.
What is Kleeb’s alternative to killing this job boon for Nebraska? Well now farmers are free to “farm wind.” According to Kleeb:
“A lot of, you know, farmer‘s and rancher’s kids may not want to farm corn, they do want to farm wind, they do want to farm different forms of energy. And they know they can’t do that if we allow these forms of tar sands pipelines to criss-cross our state.”
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Comments (123)
blackyb
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:46pmThese people have the minds and creative thoughts of those indoctrinated for years by those who have invaded our schools and gave these people this outlook instead of reality. Many of these people out of college are about mindless from alcohol, drug use and indoctrination. They do not have the ability or inclination to listen to people who really care about them, but think they are in a world of liberalism. These people are dangerous to themselves and will end up being in their mamma’s basement. They fail to realize they can build upon what is there already and do not always need to change the world to suit leftist agendas. It is like they want to start the world all over from scratch. They do not realize that most of it has been tried before and there is nothing new under the sun, but they can listen from the right people and build upon what has been given to them, improve it, protect it and go from there. These people do not realize they are promoting agendas from those who want to destroy this country with confusion from every angle. It seems that most of the ones being affected are women who are not looked upon as women but “honorary men” and who are not given respect for who they are or their rightful places in life,
Report Post »Wildape
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:59pmHey! Their mothers DESERVE to have them living in their basement. Failure is carthartic. Epic failure serves the public good by seeing close hand what happens when one is excessively stupid. If this generation falls flat on its face and suffers for decades due to their stupidity then I see it as a good thing. The generation to follow will be better.
Report Post »DimmuBorgir
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:18pmBut… you can’t eat wind
Report Post »Profarmer
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:54pmI am a proud 4th generation farmer. I enjoy providing this country the cheapest, safest, and most abundant food supply in the world. I probably care more about the environment than most liberals since my livelihood depends on it directly. Agriculture today is much friendlier to the environment today than it ever has been. At least in the US.
I for one can say that I want to farm corn and not wind. Truth be told my corn captures the sun’s energy and transforms it into food or energy depending on what you want. In essence I already am running a solar farm.
Report Post »brickmoon
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 4:20pmOn a side note, maybe you’ll appreciate my latest cartoon, lampooning abuse of power and government over-regulation: Wind Turbine Flunky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7AMFtcB3So
Report Post »msconstrue
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 5:21pm@profarmer……i couldn’t agree with you more! i have a smallish farm where i can grow food for myself and a few select others. i feel that it is an honor to take care of my land..i nourish it, and it nourishes me. i also feel that in the next few years we will see a return to the family farm, people will eventually figure it out.
on the topic of wind and solar energy, the private sector looked into these forms of energy in the 70′s..they were proven to be expensive and ineffective….its only our government with their “unlimited” supply of tax payer money that continues to beat that dead horse……take a drive through kansas, you will find most of the windmills idle.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 9:13pmReap what you Sow!
Report Post »gsp9993
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 5:25amThey are all Marxist Socialist and don’t care.
Their agenda is opposed to American values, traditions and ethics.
Report Post »Choctaw25
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 7:19amAs Rush puts it: “When you can get a Jetliner off the ground and fly it with all these alternative fuels, I’ll listen”, until then, STFU.
Some people are dopes part of the time, liberals are dopes all of the time.
“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of uninformed and misinformed, uneducated fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”
Report Post »lqtm
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 7:55amLOGIC FAIL: not all members of a group of people are the same.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 8:38amAmerica is transitioning to 1600s Dutch windmill technology. Now if we can only get people to start wearing wooden shoes again the world will be saved.
Report Post »teamarcheson
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 8:40amChina is constructing 28 atomic power plants. India has ordered 14 atomic power plants from Russia. Washington is shutting down US power plants and ordering thousands of Dutch Wind Mills. America, what do you think?
Report Post »perry1980
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:42pmWind & Solar all fine Secondary sources but make no mistake they are not sufficient nore Efficient enough to be the main source.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:47pmAnd all last winter states where wind farms were set up had to pay Hundreds of millions in tax payer funded subsities for power wind power that no one used.
Report Post »ICEDRAGONNITE
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:00pmBeside all the Bio fuels destroy the fuel systems on equipment, and cannot be stored for any length of time with out additional additives. So here is another fallibly of Bio and green energy. I am so tired of the lies and bad science which gets distorted to become the truth.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:06pmWell, actually, solar can be, and is in many cases, the main source. Proof is the homes and small farms that are completely off-grid and doing just fine.
Now, that said, financially, it doesn’t make sense to go solar at this stage of the game. I have priced both on- and off-grid scenarios for me and no matter how I do it, even with a 30% government subsidy here, the payback time is a minimum of 18 years and that’s assuming no problems or replacement equipment. Shorten that time to 5-7 years, and financially it’ll make more senses.
Now, finances aside, I am assembling a small system to run a few essentials. I want to ensure my home/property alarm system and a small refrigerator/freezer continues to work should we experience an EMP from some rouge nation or even sun activity.
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:54pmGood point – and right on concerning cost/benefit ratio.
I have no problem with either solar or wind, and it would be silly to write them off simply because it is one of the left’s talking points. This is the typical, “If you say it’s black, then I have to say white” mentality.
Why can’t we figure out a way to put solar panels on our rooftops cheaply, even if it only provides a small percentage of our needs? Isn’t that a good thing? The more independent, the better I say.
Keep us posted on your project.
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 4:26pm@ brother_ed
Actually you can put them on your roof (or wherever else they may fit) to supply a part of your electricity, just not “cheaply”, although “cheap”, like “rich”, is a relative term and has different meanings to everyone. :-)
You can do a grid-tie system so while your panels are producing, they are supplying your home/business with electricity and if they produce more than you are using, it is fed back into the electrical grid in which case the power company buys the excess from you or they bank it for you and supply it back once your panels are not producing at night, or whenever (each state is different, so check with your state as to what your power company does).
That said, in case of an emergency (EMP or whatever), a grid-tie system will ONLY run your needs during times of solar production. In order to supply your needs 24×7, you need a more costly off-grid system with batteries and all. Talk with a knowledgeable solar consultant as to what you could start with to ensure it’s upgradeable when/if you want to add to it or change it from a grid-tie to off-grid system. Usually you’ll need to buy an inverter that is big enough to handle the entire load and then just add panels/batteries as you build your system. Then again, I’m just an amateur at solar so get professional advice :)
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 4:29pm@ profarmer
Excellent point.
Report Post »apbt55
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 4:39pmWe just had a off grid solar power system installed on our small farm, estimated to produce 150% of our usage, with a 5 day full usage batter back up. the way the loan is structured is we pay them for the power we use at a set rate until the balance is paid, right now that is 8 years. The company we worked is a PA company, it is First power and light,
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 4:47pm@ APBT55
Are you located in PA as well? 8 years payback is very, very good.
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 4:56pm@jhrusky: It’s about an 8 year payoff in all but the extreme coastal areas of California. The coast gets a lot of fog, keeping enery generation down. Otherwise, the sun can cover most energy production in this state, if we only used it better.
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 6:10pm@JHRUSKY & others
Thanks! I’ll definitely look into it!
Report Post »lqtm
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 7:57amLOGIC FAIL: assuming that the current state of efficiency represents the ultimate potential whilst talking about a country that has vested oil interests constantly trying to shut down wind and solar as competitors.
Report Post »Wornout
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 11:15am@JRHusky, I am also working to set up a solar backup. I would like to know what you have done to protect your system from an EMP. I haven’t figured that one out. And, lol, I don’t want to live in a giant faraday cage :)
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 11:13am@ wornout
Get a spare inverter and charge controller. Place those in a faraday cage … I believe the solar panels themselves are passive and should not be affected by an EMP.
Report Post »S.D.BORN
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:42pmI live in the middle of corn country. Trust me, none of these farm kids wants to farm “wind”.
Report Post »Dougral Supports Israel
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:48pmYou say that now, but after “Bad Cop Obama” works them over with 10,000 pages of new regulations they’ll be singing a different tune.
Report Post »teebubba
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:45pmEven T.. Boone Pickens advocacy of wnd production was bottom line about him retaining the water rights deep under the windmills which are still an inefficient and uneconomical way to produce energy without massive government subsidies.
Report Post »Ghengas
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:41pmLiberals are for all of the above. All of the above ground.
Report Post »meister41
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:35pmYEAH just more money for GE!!! A company that doesn’t pay taxes!!!! Maybe Jane should go fly a kite!!!!!!!! Farmers of America it’s time to take a stand!! Take back your land!!
Report Post »duketurner
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:35pmOr is there something more…..
Her husband is now the Chief Executive Officer of Energy Pioneer Solutions, a residential energy efficiency business located in Hastings.
So who benefits from green energy? Farm kids or the pocketbook of Jane Kleeb? http://www.khastv.com/news/local/Pioneer-Energy-Solutions-help-you-go-green-and-save-136033543.html
The thing that irritates me is these people are moral con-artists. All they are trying to do is make money. Why can’t they just be honest like regular business people.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:10pmVery nice catch duketurner…. very nice!
Report Post »tzion
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:49pmIn the words of Iago from Disney’s Aladdin: “There’s a big surprise. I think I’m going to roll over and die from that surprise.”
Report Post »ferggie
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:54pmRegular business people crate and sell real products. These loser liberals are scam artists just selling a pipe dream.
Report Post »JACKTHETOAD
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:35pmLibs are children of the cornholes. Reverse births, most of them.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:52pmLooks like another missed planned parenthood opportunity, and who said you could eat wind anyway?
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:32pmMy REVELATION:
Liberal radicals and eco terrorists are fulll of hot air! Get out of our lives and our business!
Report Post »duketurner
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:40pmActually if you do a little research you will find that Jane Kleeb and her husband are nothing more than greedy capitalists of the evil variety. You know, the ones who lie and deceive using the sick baby prop to get people on their side when they are the ones who made the baby sick. Ok bad analogy, but by taking the pipeline down and forcing wind power, the Kleebs business (Energy Pioneer Solutions) could skyrocket. ave energy, of course, who doesn’t want to save energy. See, they use our good morals against us and that is what makes them evil.
Report Post »blackyb
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:29pmShe is blowing enough to turn a windmill. These people want to grow crops, not to feed people, but to turn engines. They want sugar consumption cut down to use the sugar for fuel. They want to use our food to run energy and ultimately this will affect what people can or cannot eat. They care nothing for your health, and are trying to take away those things to use for energy instead of people choosing what they want to eat. They want to use sugar and corn. These people are wicked and evil. They do not care about your health or they would not be in the baby killing business. Anyone who cannot care for a little baby cannot care for anyone or anything else. Get all of them out of our government. They are a virus upon the American people.
Report Post »seeker9
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:28pmI am not an engineer, but I would think a buried pipeline would use up far less farmland than a bunch of windmills. I don’t think a pipeline would be much of a hazard to birds either. Lots of farmers retiring too, so we NEED young farmers to grow FOOD. I suppose less food would “solve” the obesity problem – if lots of people starved we wouldn’t need so much food – or windmills!
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:27pmLet her eat wind tacos.
Report Post »OuttheSocialist
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:25pmIdiots like this will kill us all.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:23pmFramers can do both in the same field. I just don’t like birds and bats being killed be these things.
It upsets Nature’s Balance. I guess progressives just don’t care about that…. or eating food.
Report Post »RJJinGadsden
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:07pmIdiots like these young woman just have no idea of how well they support a government who will eventually starve them to death. Russia and China come to mind. Control the food.
Report Post »Apple Bite
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:20pmShe’s Liberal. So ends the story…
Report Post »lapitup
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:20pmWhy not do both, just look at the advantages. The wind turbines would kill insects and birds that peck at corn.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:20pmNo problem, we’ll just import all our food from China.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:24pm…and oil from Brazil.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:44pmand our Fairy dust from Columbia!… Oppps, that;s the cocaine these wind fools are snorting…..
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 8:57pmWhile still keeping the FDA around.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:19pmThe b!tch is a clueless progressive.
Report Post »inblack
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:16pmI have to admit, she made no sense to me.
“they know they can’t [farm wind] if we allow these forms of tar sands pipelines to criss-cross our state.”
So allowing pipeline forms in a criss-cross pattern will stop farm children from planting wind seeds?
How is this possible? Do the criss-cross pipe forms eat the wind seeds? Do they direct water away from the wind seeds? Maybe the criss-cross pipeline forms will prevent the wind combines from driving in their usual cross-hatched pattern when harvesting the wind grains.
I’m sure she stands shoulder to shoulder with democrats, because no brain infested person would listen to this vacuous community organizer.
Report Post »backandtotheleft
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:47pmI can’t stop laughing. Brilliant!
Report Post »backandtotheleft
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:48pmJust brilliant, i can’t stop laughing. THX
Report Post »txannie
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:13pmThis woman is so clueless it takes my breath away. You can run a traditional farm, wind farm and oil pipeline/production on the farm all at the same time! You don’t have to choose which one and MOST of the kids of farmers/ranchers across America WANT to continue the family farm. It’s these government clueless “do as I say, not as I do” people that are causing the problems. Check with the farmer/ranchers before making blanket statements like this. I don’t think they want the truth so they make stuff up as they go.
Report Post »johnjamison
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:17pmActually the problem is solved very easily. QUIT SUBSIDIZING WIND FARMS WITH TAX DOLLARS.
Report Post »Fact quit subsidizing period the market and cost will adjust itself within a few years and alot of lobbyist will be out of work.
rickg62
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:34pmThey don’t feel they have to check actual facts. They just come out with a pronouncement, the media reprint it with no challenge or response and the people just accept it as fact. “See, she said it. I saw it on the news, so it must be true.”
Report Post »countrygirl56
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:10pmLiberals…Stay OUT of my body, my education, my diet, my healthcare, my Church, my car, my bank account and MY FARM!!!!!
Report Post »woodyb
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:17pmThey don’s need YOUR farm – hey can go directly to the White House and get all the passed wind they need!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »RANGER1965
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:09pmI would love nothing more than all of our energy needs are supplied by wind, solar, wave action. I think it would be cool if we all had electric vehicles that had long range, and the same or better performance than the gas powered ones of today.
But wishing it to be, doesn’t make it reality. Nor does robbing the tax payer and creating endless incentives make it happen.
I am certain that one day we will develop better wind turbines, and better solar panels. When it happens there will be no need to fund it. People will want it, and the Free Market will take care of it.
Report Post »Docrow
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:05pmYou can’t eat wind.
Report Post »Dodsfall
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:28pmExactly.
Do these people even think about the things they say or are their mouths on auto-pilot?
Good intentions are the path to damnation, but the unintended consequences are the ones that make the rest of us suffer.
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 3:38pmWe can’t eat wind, but they sure can blow alot of smoke!
Report Post »showmerancher
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:04pmWhat Liberals want is to have government support them so they can sit at home and BREAK WIND!
Especially the members of the “Pee Party”… the ones that wet themselves in excitement just at the thought of their “savior”.
Report Post »farmwife
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:00pmWhat farm kids is she talking to? Both my children want to farm and raise cattle just like their dad. These liberals haven’t spent a day on a true family farm and they are trying to destroy what we have built.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:00pmI think they are confusing “ wind” with hot air.
Report Post »Fubared
Posted on June 11, 2012 at 2:06pmJust had a can of Bush’s grillin beans if there are any lib wind farmers with a few minutes to kill. Bring a gallon zippy and provide your own respirator. And yes, it is true, Bush’s beans provided the wind.
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