U.S. wind companies invested nine billion dollars in 2007 building 5244 mw of new wind power facilities enough to power 1.5 million homes. It's a good thing none of that money is coming to Duluth
On the same vein I have been reading the energy platforms of all the canidates. Macain is nuclear as is Romney, Clinton looks like ethanol and Obama coal gasification. They all mentioned real renewables but all voted against that in the last energy bill.