Return with me now to the 2020 election campaign, where one Donald John Trump daily ridiculed the Democrat Green Energy nuts with vignettes such as, “Darling, turn on the TV.”  “Sorry dear, you can’t watch TV today because the wind isn’t blowing.”  We laughed back then.  Trump may have lost the election, but as it turns out, he was proven right once again.  We saw a glimpse in February 2021, when frozen wind turbines in Texas of all places, stopped working, thereby contributing to widespread blackouts.  After that episode, so-called environmentalists were forced to choose between their Save the Whales mania and their Carbon Footprint psychoses, as the prevalence of offshore wind turbines appear to be causing the deaths of scores of whales all along the Eastern seaboard.  These obvious problems did nothing to stem the Biden Administration’s mindless push to destroy the oil and gas industry in favor of “the transition to renewable energy.'”  Despite the fact that wind turbines can’t replace so-called fossil fuels, and may do more harm than good, they are a large part of Biden’s renewable energy agenda.  Presumably this is because building these monstrosities requires multi-billion dollar government subsidies, along with the obligatory sweetheart contracts and graft attendant to all governmental boondoggles.  The truth is, we don’t have to build our own large-scale wind farms to prove they don’t work, because Germany has already shown us the proof.  For ten years, Germany has been pursuing its Energiewende policy.  Wind power was supposed to replace German dependence on imported Russian oil.  It didn’t work.  Germany still relies on Russian oil to meet 78% of its energy needs.  And wind power can’t replace the more than 6,000 products that are made from petroleum, including drugs and chemicals.  Petroleum is needed to manufacture the wind turbines themselves.  Some 70% of the components that go into the electric vehicles Green Whackos think we’re all going to drive are made from oil.  Without oil, your electric car has no tires, and for that matter, no road to drive on.  But we were talking about wind, right?  Biden and his henchmen have been touting wind power projects as proof of the success of Bidenomics.  The Administration hailed proposals for new wind turbine projects off the coast of New York called Empire Wind and Ocean Wind, which were supposed to produce enough energy to power 700,000 homes, but the companies building these projects just cancelled them.  The companies cited negative economic conditions, but just as easily could have said they just won’t work.  In Biden La-La Land, renewable wind power will do away with the need for oil and gas electricity generating plants.  Dream on Joe.  Let’s forget about the whole country for a moment, and consider just New York City.  If the proposed wind projects had been built they would have powered only 20% of the 3.6 million households in New York.  And the renewable energy dreamers really haven’t done the math, on little details such as, where to put all these turbines and how much land is needed to support them.  If we really could build these monsters, each turbine requires 1.5 acres of land.  For a farm of 150 turbines, you need 225 acres of ground.  How about enough to power New York City?  5700 acres, which is more than 40% of the land area of Manhattan.  You may not have noticed, but there is precious little undeveloped land around New York.  Can’t we build them in rural areas?  Unfortunately, no.  The transmission lines would have to be too long to make them efficient.  Oh, and by the way, if the object is to protect nature from the nasty fossil fuels, wind farms aren’t the answer, because they won’t work in wooded areas where trees create wind barriers.  Building turbines will require clearing all the trees, which is likely to dislodge the tree-huggers.  So just build them in the ocean, then.  Well, the problem there, apart from the dead whales, is that salt reduces the efficiency of the turbines up to 30%, and they’re more costly to build and maintain than land-based turbines.  The sad fact is that wind power, as  a way to move away from oil, is at best a fantasy, and at worst simply a new way to steal government money.  The turbines contain 8,000 parts, so what could go wrong?  Plus, you can’t transition away from oil, by building things that require massive amounts of petroleum to produce.  Manufacturing the steel requires oil.  Moving the components to the construction sites requires diesel powered trucks, cranes, and other heavy equipment.  There are no electric alternatives to these vehicles.  Construction of one foundation requires 750 cubic yards of concrete, that’s 60 diesel powered truck loads, and one way or another, you’ll wind up paying the Mob a premium for each truckload.  And you need oil to make the concrete, it can’t be made electrically.  Even if you manage to build these turbines, each one requires 80 gallons of lubricating oil a year.  There aren’t enough rare Earth metals available to make the batteries for electric cars, never mind the components of wind turbines, and mining for them destroys the environment we’re supposedly saving.  But say, we manage to build all the 300 foot tall towers we need.  Well, there are still several problems, most importantly the fact that, as Donald Trump noted, the wind doesn’t blow all the time.  Due to this immutable law of nature, you need some kind of battery to store enough power to keep the lights and heat on.  Right now there’s only one technology that can store enough power to last one windless day – Sodium-Sulfur batteries.   Except, each one weighs 450 million tons, takes up 923 square miles, and needs to be replaced every 15 years.  If the wind stops for more than 24 hours, I guess we put all the migrants on bicycle generators and yell, “Arriba! Arriba! Andale!”  And as it turns out, even high winds defeat the wind farm system.  The turbines operate best with a steady 20 MPH wind.  If the wind gusts to 55 MPH, you have to shut down the turbines or they’ll be damaged.  And of course, as Texas learned, cold temperatures lead to icing, and deicing requires using oil-powered helicopters.  So, against this backdrop, my suggestion is, the next time some environmental whacko tells you that wind will replace oil, tell him to blow it out his ass.