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Observation One:  Inherency

Current incentives for wind power are insufficient and wind power is not eligible for financial incentives like master limited partnerships.  Congressional action is needed to allow wind power access to these financial incentives.

Mormann and Reicher, 2012 (June 1, Felix and Dan, Fellow and Executive Director at Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/opinion/how-to-make-renewable-energy-competitive.html?pagewanted=all)

Tax credits for wind power are expiring and investment into wind is declining;  MLPs would raise $6 billion in capital for wind power without extending existing grants and incentives.

CleanTechnica, June 8, 2012 (http://cleantechnica.com/2012/06/08/leveling-the-energy-playing-field-senate-bill-to-allow-renewable-energy-mlps/)

The Plan:

Through all necessary and normal means, the United States Congress will expand section 7704 of the Internal Revenue Code to include wind power as a qualified energy source identified in Section 613 of the tax code.  

Advantage One:  Global Warming 

The Earth’s climate is currently warming.

Achenbach 2012 (Joel Achenbach, writer and lecturer at Princeton and Georgetown, July 7, 2012, “Climate Change: Global Warming is a Fact,” Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/achenblog/post/climate-change-global-warming-is-a-fact/2012/07/09/gJQAAGs6XW_blog.html)

Scientific consensus concludes that warming is being caused by our continued reliance on CO2.

Lewandowsky and Ashley 2011 (Stephan Lewandowsky, Professor of Cognitive Studies at the University of Western Australia, and Michael Ashley, Professor of Astrophysics at the University of New South Wales, June 24, 2011, “The false, the confused and the mendacious: how the media gets it wrong on climate change,” http://goo.gl/u3nOC)

Failure to make changes in our use of CO2 will result in the extinction of all life on Earth.

Ahmed 2010 (Nafeez Ahmed, Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development, professor of International Relations and globalization at Brunel University and the University of Sussex, Spring/Summer 2010, “Globalizing Insecurity: The Convergence of Interdependent Ecological, Energy, and Economic Crises,” Spotlight on Security, Volume 5, Issue 2, online)

Now is the critical time to reduce our reliance on forms of energy based on CO2

Dyer 2009 (Gwynne Dyer, MA in Military History and PhD in Middle Eastern History former Senior Lecturer in War Studies at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, “Climate Wars,”)

Wind power has the potential to stop climate change 

Kusmin, 2011 (Ryan, Washington University Law Review, 88 Wash U.L. rev. 707, http://lawreview.wustl.edu/in-print/sucking-the-air-out-of-wind-energy-nuisance-litigation-and-its-effect-on-wind-energy-development/

Gore, 2010 (Al, December, Center for American Progress – The US Role in International Climate Finance, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/12/pdf/climatefinance.pdf)   

Advantage One:  Jobs

Despite some improvement, economic recovery is failing.

Hall, senior research fellow at Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 2012 (Keith, July 10, http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/07/10/why-the-economic-recovery-isnt-strong-enough)

Without increasing job growth, we are headed to a double-dip recession

Levin, 2011 (Becky, AFSCME news letter, http://www.afscme.org/news/publications/newsletters/works/fall-2011/economic-recovery-relies-on-jobs) American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.
Economic collapse causes nuclear war- extinction
Broward 9 ((Member of Triond) http://newsflavor.com/opinions/will-an-economic-collapse-kill-you/)

Wind power is critical to economic recovery and job creation

Hinman, 2009 (J.D. Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation,  http://law.uoregon.edu/org/jell/docs/232/Hinman.pdf) J. Envtl. Law and Litigation, Vol. 24, 35)

Making wind power eligible for Master Limited Partnerships would drastically increase investment.

DiMugno, 2012 (June 7) Laura, http://www.nawindpower.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.9961

Extending MLP’s to solar and wind power is essential to mobilizing capital.

Bullock, Weinstein, and Johnson, May 2012, (W. Bruce, Bernard L, Ben, Dir. Maguire Energy Institute SMU, Assoc. Dir. Maguire Energy Inst, SMU, MBA Candidate, Leveling the Playing Field: The  Case for Master Limited Partnerships for Renewables., http://www.awea.org/_cs_upload/newsroom/pressreleases/16733_1.pdf)

Wind power alone has the potential to solve our nations unemployment problems.

Pollin, Heintz, and Garret-Peltier, 2009 (June, Robert, James, and Heidi, Center for American Progress, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2009/06/pdf/peri_report.pdf)