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Podcast: Plain Talk
Episode: 200: Sen. Cramer on wind power, the electrical grid, Ted Cruz, and Rush Limbaugh
Description: Power outages touched millions of Americans this week, including North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer. "I actually had a 45-minute blackout," he said on this the 200th episode of Plain Talk. What can be done to prevent these sort of blackouts in the future? A lot of energy policy gets made at the state level, for a lot of excellent reasons, but from the federal perspective Cramer sees a two-pronged approach. One, the lavish production tax credit for wind energy, which provides some perverse and truly distortive incentives for energy companies to produce wind...