Lefty Nuttiness Runs Smack Into Lefty Nuttiness

A delicious example of lefty contradiction and cognitive dissonance over at SayAnything. Seems they have to shut down wind turbines because they're killing bats (or a bat).

They don’t run when there’s no wind. They can’t be run when there’s too much wind. They can’t be run when it’s too cold, and now some wind power turbines in Pennsylvania can’t be run at night because they’re slaughtering endangered bats.

LILLY, Pa. — Thirty-five windmills at a western Pennsylvania wind farm have been silenced at night since a bat that belongs to an endangered species was found dead under one of the turbines.

The Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown is reporting the farm shut down the windmills overnight after the Indiana bat was found Sept. 26.

The farm in question was built by Gamesa Energy USA and covers parts of Portage, Washington, and Cresson Townships in Cambria County, and part of Blair County, about 60 miles east of Pittsburgh.

Wind power is unreliable and extremely expensive. Yet, for some reason, the direction of national policy is toward subsidizing more and more windmills while traditional, reliable and cheap energy sources like coal are targeted for extinction through taxation and regulation.

Wind power is going to save the planet so we must get cracking, but not unless an insignificant number of annoying animals interfere. Hah! Lefty nuttiness meets lefty nuttiness! Love it.