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Howling About Texas Beating California on Wind Power
By Peter Asmus, Alternet, posted on July 26, 2006
Texas Republican Governor Rick Perry proclaimed in early July that “Texas surpassed California to become the national leader in wind energy.” Surprisingly, this Texas brag has turned out to be true. Since I wrote a report predicting this could happen four years ago, I still became intrigued at this news. How could Texas, the home state of our dear President George Bush, and the terrain of the fossil fuel captains of the world, beat green and progressive California on wind power, one of today’s most popular power sources?