Free Markets

Our present , wonderful, Governor BS is so enamored with wind power that <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/07/08/build/state/40-schweitzer.inc" target="_new">he proposed</a> a while ago to require us in Montana to buy a certain portion of our electricity from wind power to jump start the industry. Well instead of government intervention to get things going look at what the free markets are bringing us. First we hear of a new wind farm project at <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?display=rednews/2005/01/12/build/state/50-nwe-deal.inc" target="_new">Judith Gap</a> and now there is a new project slated for the <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/01/28/build/state/55-windfarm.inc" target="_new">Glasgow area</a>. Isn't it amazing what the free market brings along given enough time for the technology to mature and people who want to implement it and it can happen without government intervention. I wish people would remember this example when it comes to what they consider the miracle juice of the ages, ethanol.<br />n<br />n<b>The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization. Mikhail Gorbachev</b>