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Edward Fitzpatrick: Will R.I. tap the ‘Saudi Arabia of wind’?

Spin, baby, spin.

During her 2008 debate against Joe Biden, Sarah Palin repeated a Republican chant — “drill, baby, drill” — in pushing to drill for oil and natural gas.

Another Republican, Governor Carcieri, has been repeating a different chant — “spin, baby, spin” — in pushing to build wind turbines off the coast of Rhode Island. And he invoked that phrase again Tuesday at a forum called “Advancing the Green Economy.”

“Out West and in the Midwest they’ve got oil, they’ve got natural gas, etc., and their theme is ‘drill, baby, drill,’ ” Carcieri said. “We don’t have any oil. We don’t have any natural gas.”

But we do have access to the “Saudi Arabia of wind” off the East Coast, he said, and David Farmer, dean of the University of Rhode Island’s Graduate School of Oceanography, has coined the phrase for harnessing that energy: “Spin, baby, spin.”

Of course, the state’s official motto is “Hope.” And while hope has been in short supply amid all this economic turmoil, the state Economic Development Corporation unveiled a “Roadmap for Advancing the Green Economy” at Tuesday’s forum, offering the hope that Rhode Island’s economy might stop sucking wind if we could lead the way in harnessing offshore wind power.

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