wind power has it's place in countries that have little of no oil. but in those area the energy prices are so high that the added cost associated with wind is ok. it doesn't make sense to me to subsidies the wind industry just to make the power they produce to be in line with our natural resources. if we only new just how much we pay for wind power??? if the wind industry had to sell their power at produced cost nobody would pay it.
I remember seeing an electric company booth (OG&E?) at the state fair when they were pushing for wind energy. The folks at the booth were getting people to sign up for wind energy electricity, and what they were showing was that one would pay a higher rate for the wind energy product. Especially so at that time, I recognized that there weren't going to be any "special dedicated electrical lines" going from the wind turbines to one's home, so how would anyone know they were really getting wind powered electricity?