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This is another case where going green creates green. It also creates jobs, something needed in this tough economy. It is difficult for relatively low skill labor to find jobs that pay as well as those in the oil industry. Wind power, as Oklahoma is finding, can provide some of those jobs.Oklahoma, Where the Wind Comes Sweeping Down the Plain - Tony Wang - Open Salon
If one looks at the history of the oil industry, they'll find a huge part was played by OK and it's people, though most of us think of TX when we think of the oil industry. So I'm delighted to see OK pursuing this. Good for them.
BTW, TX is by far the national leader in production of wind energy, despite their long history and current involvement with oil.
They've lots of sunlight in OK too. IIRC, enough sunlight falls on NM (alone) to power the entire nation. All we have to is build the plants to capture the wind and sun, then we can stop paying for fuel sources (coal, natural gas, oil).
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