Not since Karl Marx has anyone committed such violence to economic sanity as the moonbats who push green energy on behalf of their weather gods.

Via Scottish Daily Express:

Scottish wind farms were paid £347m to switch off and not generate power this year – with the cost being added to electricity bills.

Wind farms do not generate power on a reliable basis, so charging for the energy they do not produce makes sense in a psychotic kind of way.

Across the UK, a huge £1.45bn was handed to wind farm developers and for turbines to remain idle.

Nice business, for those with a seat at Big Government’s table.

The SNP [Scottish National Party] Government wants to see thousands more turbines in order to hit its net zero goal but these will likely cost millions more and also blight the countryside.

But think of how much revenue can be raised by charging people for the energy they do not generate.

At times of high wind, the grid gets too congested and can’t transport power from remote areas in Scotland to where it is needed most.

That’s when bill-payers are charged for the turbines to shut down.

To keep the lights on in those areas grid operators must call on gas plants to step in to power up Britain, often at great expense. Nuclear power is also utilised but the SNP are campaigning against this, blocking plans to build new plants in Scotland despite the huge economic benefit.

Nuclear is no good because it is reliable and efficient, which makes it offensive to moonbats.

Scotland is located on the North Sea, beneath which lies an ocean of oil. But oil is also haram in the moonbat religion. So the North Sea is littered for miles off the coast with hideous wind turbines that chop up birds — for the sake of the environment.

On a tip from Steve T.