Wyoming Gubernatorial Candidate Says Wind Development Will Help Electrical Companies
Ron Micheli, a candidate for the GOP nomination for Wyoming governor, has taken a stand against wind tax proposals by Dave Feudenthal, the state's current governor. Micheli said in an op-ed piece in the Casper Star-Tribune posted online on Feb. 5 that ...
Ron Micheli, a candidate for the GOP nomination for Wyoming governor, has taken a stand against wind tax proposals by Dave Feudenthal, the state's current governor. Micheli said in an op-ed piece in the Casper Star-Tribune posted online on Feb. 5 that the proposals “do not adequately consider the larger issue of keeping Wyoming competitive with other states." "As I have researched the issue and visited with landowners, wind energy representatives, and businessmen, I strongly believe that the timing of those taxes and the degree they burden the industry will drive wind energy away from Wyoming.”
Micheli also said wind development would help the Wyoming economy in “far-reaching ways.” “The concrete for the foundations of the turbines can be poured by Wyoming workers. Wyoming electricians, engineers, electrical supply distributors, contractors, construction workers and maintenance workers will build and maintain the turbines.” Casper Star-Tribune article
Jim Lucy has been wandering through the electrical market for more than 30 years, most of the time as an editor for Electrical Wholesaling, Electrical Marketing newsletter and CEE News. During that time he and the editorial team for the publications have won numerous national awards for their coverage of the electrical business. He showed an early interest in electricity, when as a youth he had an idea for a hot dog cooker. Unfortunately, the first crude prototype malfunctioned and the arc nearly blew him out of his parents' basement.
Before becoming an editor for Electrical Wholesaling magazine and Electrical Marketing, he earned a BA degree in journalism and a MA in communications from Glassboro State College, Glassboro, NJ., which is formerly best known as the site of the 1967 summit meeting between President Lyndon Johnson and Russian Premier Aleksei Nikolayevich Kosygin, and now best known as the New Jersey state college that changed its name in 1992 to Rowan University because of a generous $100 million donation by N.J. zillionaire industrialist Henry Rowan. Jim is a Brooklyn-born Jersey Guy happily transplanted in the fertile plains of Kansas for the past 20 years.
