Get Energy Smart! NOW!  Blogging for a sustainable energy
future.  Get Energy Smart!  NOW! header image 2  Fighting Back
against Cutting Electric Prices with Wind Power  August 9th,
2010 · 2 Comments    After tweeting that article, I started to
receive tweets with links to the anti-wind conservative echo
chamber, including The American Thinker, and the Oil-money
founded and partly funded Cato Institue.  The piece I am looking
at today is a brilliant example of the echo-chamber shell game:
how you fill up the echo chamber with outdated, irrelevant, or
partial and misleading facts so that there are “facts! facts!”
that can be cited in social media, complete with demands “answer
the facts!” by those who either are pushing a line for strategic
reasons or have been taken in by the argument.  Entitled “Wind
Energy’s Ghosts”, the information in the piece is familiar to
anyone who has participated in online discussion of wind power
or renewable energy in general and has encountered the oil or
coal industry sponsored