How much energy is the windmill expected to generate? If it's more than the fuel, then so what? Nothing's perfect. Energy is energy. Don't hate on it just because some oil baron is brainwashing you.

Wind power is not new. Humanity has been using wind to harness energy for thousands of years.

Private markets are fully capable of developing and deploying wind power on their own without government interference. There is an economic term that I can't recall at the moment for what happens when you get government interference in the private market place, leading to malinvestment in various industries, which in turn leads to huge economic losses.

The modern deployment of hundreds of billions of dollars of wind turbines in a massive rollout across the globe is a classic case of this phenomenon. It's not that wind turbines are not profitable. They are, when properly deployed. There is a set of prerequisite conditions that must be met before such a turbine can be deployed profitably. That didn't stop all of the governments from just rolling them out haphazardly before doing the math. Now, there are serious problems. There are huge financial losses. Electricity consumers are forced to pay for these losses whether they want to or not. Nobody is asking them about that part.

It's not that they were not warned. They were, and they choose to deliberately ignore the warnings, while personally financially gaining in the process. This is, in fact, a crime. A fraud. Criminal negligence at the very least.

If you allow private industry to handle this, then private companies that install wind power incorrectly will go bankrupt on their own, and through that mechanism, the investors who invest incorrectly are most directly held accountable for their mistakes by the loss of their investment capital.

When you have government incorrectly invest in these markets, it is the taxpayers who are on the hook to pay for the mistakes. Accountability is absent from the system, or at the very least delayed until the next election cycle. Now that voting no longer exists, accountability is now delayed until eventual revolution. It all ends in blood and misery.

windmills are total shit, solar is sexxy tho.