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Offshore Wind ironically, this country’s companies, skilled labor and expe- tion is ironic. Europe with 6,000 turbines boasts the lead in rience of installing, maintaining and servicing operations clean energy but suffers economically due to dependency offshore exists. Further ignored were the hundreds of sup- on a disrupted foreign oil source. Meanwhile, the United port vessels, jackups and platforms in layup, many capable States, capable of domestic energy independence, will suffer of supporting offshore wind. economically due to massive efforts to build and produce al-

The Administration and Department of Energy reported ternative clean energy at an expedited pace. The truth at the four to six wind turbine installation vessels (WTIV) would 35,000-foot level is that the oil spigot cannot just be turned need to be built in the United States. The