Death knell for the Greene Jeanne routine?

I’m finding plenty of holes in Jeanne’s energy initiatives of late.  If you are unfamiliar with them, they are on her policy page.  I’m not linking to it anymore unless she changes it.  And I’m thinking she might have to.

Wind

Jeanne Shaheen has been blowing a lot of hot air about Wind Farms as renewable energy for New Hampshire and I guess the world.  Well in Texas, where they already have them, there’s already  a problem

…Seems the owner of the transmission lines have started charging “congestion fees” to transport the new power from the turbines. And even in Texas, the construction of more power lines are being held up by environmental groups filing suits and lobbying government agencies at all levels.

Were not Texas.  We wouldn’t need the power to go far.  But we don’t have the kind of open space you need for the kind of wind farm that can produce enough energy to be of much value.  We’d just be paying that much more for electricity from turbines we had to pay for with our tax dollars in the first place. (Wind get’s a lot of federal subsidies.)  Of course none of this matters because I suspect Shaheen doesn’t expect they’ll ever actually get built in New Hampshire.  I think that’s part of her diabolical plan.

Read on…

If you think we need change, how about a new Governor?

I can see Beacon Hill from here!

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There’s the New Hampshire way, and then there is John Lynch’s way. 

John Lynch is leading New Hampshire in the wrong direction.  Our State government has a spending addiction that he can’t or wont stop.  Our Democrat legislature is growing State government and no one is standing in their way.  He has abandoned his own positions, given up the beach on school funding, and is letting the legislature have nearly anything they ask for.  Even the most complacent among us must understand that what New Hampshire does not need during a national economic downturn is a swollen State government that just keeps getting bigger.  John Lynch either doesn’t see it that way, or he just doesn’t see it.

His excellency could have stopped the free-fall early on, but he hasn’t had the sense to stop his own parties spending ways. So at the last minute he tried to stuff the budget hole full of State bonds whose values have declined for the very reason he needs to sell more of them.  Poor fiscal planning.  Is that good government?  Is that the New Hampshire way?  Not the New Hampshire I want to live in.

There is a solution…