Media personality and former Trump campaign operative Steve Cortes has released a video exposing the flaws of using wind turbines as an energy source, which he calls the “wind scam.” Filmed in New Mexico, which generates 38% of its electricity from wind, he revealed how wind turbines still need petroleum to function, and they’re bad for the environment, especially animals. Studies estimate 140,000 to 679,000 birds die annually in the U.S. due to them.
“They are one gigantic, expensive scam,” Cortes said. “There's nothing clean about this,” they stated, as they cause pollution.
He showed a clip from the show Landman that went viral, featuring actor Billy Bob Thornton going off on a rant about wind turbines. Oil companies own them, Thornton said. He said they need a lot of oil for lubrication and winterizing. Additionally, “In its 20-year lifespan, it won’t offset the carbon footprint of making it.” Thornton listed off multiple items in society that need oil, from everyday products to roads.
Cortes said the only thing Thornton got wrong was stating that we’ll run out of fossil fuels before we are capable of switching fully to clean energy.
Paul Gessing of New Mexico’s Rio Grande Foundation spoke to Cortes about the dilemma. He said the Navajo Nation makes money from their natural gas reserves, but unfortunately lawmakers are trying to end this profitable venture for them. Gessing said wind turbines have a “devastating environmental impact” and leave “a huge footprint.”
Cortes criticized “oligarchs like Al Gore, who grew generationally rich off of selling us this giant myth.” He explained that “wind is by definition unreliable, even in the windiest places on the planet,” which “tend to be geographically very far away from the biggest energy consuming needs.” Cortes said wind cannot serve as a sole source of energy or even a primary source, it always comes down to coal or natural gas for the default system.
The U.S. currently gets 10% of its energy from wind turbines. In countries where they are more heavily reliant on them, they “pay through the roof for power,” Cortes said.
Myron Lizer, former vice president of the Navajo Nation and a Donald Trump supporter who spoke at the 2020 Republican National Convention, spoke to Cortes about his frustration with lawmakers attempting to do away with natural gas on the reservation. He noted that Native Americans supported Trump over Kamala Harris for president. An Edison Research exit poll (NBC News) found that 68% of voters chose Trump compared to 31% who chose Harris. Lizer said the reservation has a 100-year supply of coal.
He expounded, “What most people don't really realize is those, all those projects are subsidized, right? And there's nothing free in this world, so it does cost somebody something.”
Cortes stressed that the need for energy continues increasing, ”galloping higher at an exponential rate — data centers, AI, blockchain — all these avant garde cutting edge technologies.” He warned, “We will never beat China in AI if we keep chasing this fantasy of so-called clean energy via the wind.”
Cortes said there are “literally oceans” of fossil fuels, especially natural gas, “beneath our feet.” He contrasted the price per kilowatt hour of coal with wind. The former never changes, “because the supply is nearly unlimited and it is predictable, set far to the future.” Whereas wind is “temperamental, unpredictable and intermittent, even in the best case scenarios.”
He dismissed climate alarmists. “The climate hysteria is massively overblown, and the earth is neither fragile nor in trouble.” He said the increases in CO2 come after temperature increases — not the other way around as the climate alarmists claim.
"As for areas around the world that are burning, it has been “declining steadily for well over a century, and it has nothing to do with climate.” He said the “surface air temperature has almost zero effect upon the temperature of the vast, deep oceans.”
Cortes said experts “believe that the recent rash of giant dead whales washing up to America's eastern shoreline stems from these turbines being planted in the sea where their noise and disruption wreak havoc upon sea life.”
Elisa Martinez, who ran for Congress in New Mexico, told Cortes, “We have become the second largest oil producing state in the country.” She criticized the Democratic leadership in the state. “We have tremendous natural gas reserves, coal as well as other natural resources that could be leveraged to lift the state out of poverty, but instead, we see these radical left policies from our governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham.”
Martinez said problems emerged with the state’s 2019 Energy Transition Act, “which is similar to the Green New Deal.” She said it is “a scam and it's a way for the left to come in again and transition everyone to dependency on the government.” She said it is forcing independent oil producers out of business; family owned businesses that have been operating for many years have left the state. The left is “empowering large corporations to dominate that industry.”
Cortes said eventually the U.S. will transition to renewable energy sources — it just can’t be forced quickly as the left is demanding. Wind power is the largest source of renewable energy in the U.S., and last year, wind and solar combined surpassed coal in electricity generation for the first time, with the former generating 17% to coal’s 15%.
But don’t expect the left to be honest about the issue. They ignore the hundreds of thousands of birds killed by wind turbines, and instead scream in protest after Elon Musk’s rocket damaged nine shorebird nests last year. Ironically, Musk’s goal is similar, saving the planet by moving humanity to Mars, but since he’s a Trump supporter, they have to attack his environmental ventures just like they now hypocritically target his Teslas.
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