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

ABC News ^ | 7.25.03 | John Stossel

[vger]

Check out Tehachapi, California!! There are hundreds of them cranking out power. Go East on Hwy 58 from Bakersfield, they are almost hypnotic. I would like to put a giant one on my house. Maybe the libs would think it was more beautiful than the rusty car bodies in my front yard!!

[Leisler]

On the one hand the project is going to get 28 million a year, for ever, from the taxpayer. I'm against that. Further, it isn't a friendly or efficient way to make energy. So, strike two. However, to me anyways, if it it drives these fagu fakes up the wall, I'm for it. By the way, the Hudson Riverkeepers and Robert Kennedy and all the Hudson trust fund greenies were against a power line coming down around Storm Mountian on the Hudson and had it moved to a more working class route.

[mathurine]

Was there anything, anytime, anywhere that a Kennedy or a Cronkite did altruistically. Wealthy, self-indulgent two-tongued peckerheads is what they are and they don't care about anything but themselves.

[Inspectorette]

Check out Tehachapi, California!! There are hundreds of them cranking out power. Go East on Hwy 58 from Bakersfield, they are almost hypnotic.

Whenever we drive through there, we're fascinated by them. Huell Howser, who is an enormously popular TV personality out here on KCET (PBS), has featured them on one of his shows. He went up to the top of one of the tallest of them (really scary), and he extolled the virtues of them. (Hard to believe from PBS ;-)

[AndyJackson]

Nantucket Sound, where his family might see it from their elegant compound in Hyannis Port

The Kennedy's are known for their penetrating eyesight-when they are sober.

[attagirl]

it seems to me I read the enviros were against these in CA claiming they were disruptive to migrating birds or some such nonsense. The truth is they just want us beholding to Big Brother.

As far as the rich folks go, it's selfishness. Yeah--I agree. Some of those boats they own are just PLAIN UGLY--and gas guzzlers too. But no one consults me before they buy.

oh, well. In the meantime, let's all exhale all at once and blow these jerks away!

[RightWhale]

They are all sailors out there. Windfarms will affect recreational sailing, but each tower will have a light and a bell. Sailors are adaptible; they can adapt to windfarms.

[virgil]

Seems like we've come full circle. Farmers got their electricity for years from their own private "windchargers". Why can't people just get their own?

[breakem]

Nuclear

[gonzo]

"...On the one hand the project is going to get 28 million a year, for ever, from the taxpayer. I'm against that. Further, it isn't a friendly or efficient way to make energy..."

Yup! 28 mil a year for maintenance - above and beyond the value of any electricity produced!

The cheap, coal-fired generators be damned, and forget about nuclear. The 'Greenies' are nuts, and the limo-liberals are Wealthy, self-indulgent two-tongued peckerheads!!...........FRegards

[ccmay]

especially areas where rich environmentalists like to spend the summer.

A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already owns a house in the woods.

We have a lot of the environmentalist wackos here in Arizona who moan about the loss of all the beautiful desert. Of course, what they mean is the loss of all the beautiful desert around their own homes, as neighboring landowners claim the same rights to build as the malcontent greenies exercised previously. Every one of these hypocritical scum lives in a house on a site that was once bare virgin desert, but they are quite happy to make rules preventing the rest of us doing likewise.

And of course, outside the immediate Phoenix area there is beautiful virgin desert by the thousands of square miles, much of it already off-limits to development, and the rest unlikely to be developed even after a thousand years at the current rate.

-ccm

[jwh_Denver]

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

Along with a couple meat packing plants.

[Rodney King]

I once new a man from Nantucket.

His... oh nevermind.