Bill Peacock: “Wind is a very mature industry here in Texas, and it doesn’t need those subsidies anymore”.

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Bill Peacock: "Wind is a very mature industry here in Texas, and it doesn't need those subsidies anymore".

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As the nation marked the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, an old debate returned: Is America a creedal nation—defined by the truths that all men are created equal and endowed with unalienable rights? Or is that claim a later abstraction that ignores blood, soil, culture, and the European origins of those ideas? Mike Gonzalez recently addressed this...

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