The Oklahoma GOP points out Richard Lerblance’s curious idea of taxing the wind. Read the release here.

We can’t help but be reminded of that great Scamp Walker song that warns men like Richard Lerblance and other Oklahoma Democrats from doing something in the wind.  It’s not a problem for women – just men.  

And this from the original article:

Sen. Richard Lerblance, D-Hartshorne, a member of the Senate Energy Committee, warned that the Legislature must be careful about granting more tax credits.

Lerblance, an attorney and cattleman who has been active in the natural gas business for years, noted that the Legislature was strapped for money when it drew up the fiscal year 2009 budget, despite what he calls an “energy boom” that has once again come to the state.

“Nobody wants to raise taxes,” he said. “But maybe we will have to tax wind power, or ethanol, switch grass, these other sources of energy.”

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