Why Don't the Kochs Want Kansans to Have Wind Farms?
If you've ever spent time in Western Kansas, you probably know it is one of the windiest locations in the continental United States. Residents there like to say that the wind never stops blowing in their part of the country.
So it makes sense that, more and more, western Kansans are using that wind to generate their electricity.
As many of you know, the folks out there are a pretty conservative group of people and a lot of them were concerned at first about the idea of going "green" when it came to energy.
But the practical side of their nature won out and, believe it or not, a lot of their conservative politicians came around and feel the same way. Wind turbines now dot the landscape and most people seem pretty happy with it all.
The question on the table now, though, is this: can they keep them?
Apparently not, if the billionaire Koch brothers have their way. Koch Industries, the family-owned business the brothers inherited from their father, makes a big chunk of its money from oil refineries and oil pipelines. Maybe that's why the Koch brothers don't seem to like wind farms.
Based on what we're hearing from that part of the country, the Kochs are willing to spend millions of dollars supporting politicians who will vote the way the Kochs' want them to vote. In this case, it's to stop wind farms. That's a lot of money in western Kansas, enough to win some elections.
Which is nothing new for the Kochs. Those boys like to talk about "freedom", but if you want to go down a path the Koch Brothers don't like, they'll spend as much money as they can to take away some of your freedom.
You've probably seen a lot of the Kochs' anonymous political ads on TV in recent years. They usually are labeled as being from a group calling themselves "Americans for Prosperity", and are regularly challenged by fact-checking organizations. Don't let yourself be fooled, though. Question everything you see in those ads because the Kochs frequently are just trying to promote their own personal interests in those ads, not necessarily yours.
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