[grania]

I cannot grasp that there are enviormental wackos who support eagle-killing wind power, but want to stop an initiative that will keep eagles in the air and oil underground for shipping rather than on trucks and trains.

[familyop]

The not-in-my-back-yard folks (NIMBYs) have often posed as environmentalists to keep everyone and everything else out of their neighborhoods, including other property owners who want to build their homes and produce useful things. As for retarded birds that run into things, trash cans should be installed under wind turbines to cut down on littering.

[Brad from Tennessee]

A partial list of firms that have been paid by Saudi Arabia to lobby the American government includes:

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP: $220,770
Boland & Madigan, Inc: $420,000
Burson-Marsteller: $3,619,286.85
Cambridge Associates, Ltd.: $8,505
Cassidy & Associates, Inc: $720,000
DNX Partners, LLC: $225,000
Dutton & Dutton, PC: $3,694,350
Fleishman-Hillard: $6,400,000
Gallagher Group, LLC: $612,337.37
Iler Interests, LP: $388,231.14
Loeffler Tuggey Pauerstein Rosenthal, LLP: $2,350,457.12
Loeffler, Jonas & Tuggey, LLP: $1,260,000
MPD Consultants, LLP: $1,447,267.13
Powell Tate, Inc: $900,732.77

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia_lobby_in_the_United_States