Windstorm; Why Are 'Environmentalists' Opposing Windmills in Nantucket Sound?

ABC News ^ | 7.25.03 | John Stossel

[petuniasevan]

NIMBY. NIMBY NIMBY NIMBYNIMBYNIMBY...

That's the cry of the limousine liberal.

[AdamSelene235]

Energy is the lifeblood of civilization.

Greenies hate everything about civilization: people,kids,energy,intellect,technology,etc,etc.

[OpusatFR]

Those things are a vast field of eyesores. The ones that line the highway going toward Palm Springs are just nasty looking pieces of industrial trash. Can't say that I blame the folks in Nantucket. Now, why are they trying to push them into the Chesapeake Bay!!?? Do you suppose I like them trashing my ~public~ view anymore than they like their ~public~ view contaminated?

[vger]

I think of them as dynamic art! Remember Christo's umbrellas? They were cool but they didn't produce any power. I say let's build 'em all over Nantucket Sound, it's better than the eyesores caused by new england's coal burning smudge pot energy plants by a long run!

[BenLurkin]

"Kennedy doesn't want a wind farm on Nantucket Sound, where his family might see it from their elegant compound in Hyannis Port. Veteran newsman Walter Cronkite doesn't want Gordon's wind farm here either. Cronkite likes to sail on Nantucket Sound."

So-oo typical. Limousine liberals want all the taxing and regulation to hurt other people while they use those same regulations to secure their priveleged lifestyles.

[ABG(anybody but Gore)]

One of the primary requirements of being a liberal, besides checking your brain at the door, is to be an unabashed hypocrite in all things.

[BenLurkin]

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Excellent idea for a magazine!

[Cindy]

re post no. 3...


You beat me to it. Envirowhackos want absolutely nothing to do with civilization. They want everything to be pristine and -- no people.

[NutmegDevil]

There is a bunch of windmills visible in the north of the Irish Republic. They are quite elegant, not the same look as those Golden Eagle mixmaster/blender contraptions in California. Much more attractive than some yachts I've seen. I vote for Windpower in Nantucket Harbor.

[LoneRangerMassachusetts]

The group's president, Isaac Rosen, complains ... and says, "I think building turbines, building machinery in an area where people go to get away from industry, to get away from machinery is wrong."

Just how does a mammal with no fins or webbing get six miles out into the ocean without the help of machines? Without the help of technology these whackos are fish bait.

[diefree]

I love the modern windmills. I've seen them all over Europe and I think they're beautiful, especially when there are hundreds (or what seems like hundreds) of them together, all turning at the same time. They give off a very peaceful feeling.

[Cindy]

re post no. 11

I vote for Windpower in Nantucket Harbor, too. There are some beautiful windmills and wind power is a good source of energy. It must be true because, generally speaking, all the enviro types have said so.

[philetus]

You can't put one in Kennedy's or Cronkite's backyard, but the two of them would support putting them in my or your backyards.

They would even support taking all your property.

[meyer]

NIMBY is exactly right. It is the only reason.

I'd love to see somebody build a big, fat, soot-snorting coal-fired old-technology power plant there. :)

[uglybiker]

Why Are 'Environmentalists' Opposing Windmills in Nantucket Sound?

I can hear it now...

There once was Don Quixote from Nantucket....

[em2vn]

Right you are. Dramatic pieces of functional art. I enjoy watching them from afar. They are beautiful.

[speekinout]

I think those windmills are godawful. And I really don't understand how some people can think a few hundred of them are less offensive than one oil rig.

[pabianice]

Bed-wetting Liberals hate windmills because they turn to the right...