LOL!! Well sure, we can have supplimentary power, but let's quit the stupidity of fining and jailing Joe Sixpack for killing a protected species and then turn our heads to thousands being whacked by PC methods. Let's build nuclear. My God, we've had nuclear warships for decades, our sailors work on them day in and day out, they're NOT dropping dead of cancer by the shipload, so what's the problem??
The lie that we're also told is that wind generators have a "small footprint". BS! stick several hundred on a mesa connected by service/maintenance roads, power grid hookups and that takes up a huge area, but that's okay, it's just "ugly" desert anyway, who cares? I have an idea, let's put them offshore Mass.
But gee, then again, we've created another industry (wind turbines), the plastics folks are making a ton manufacturing the machine, LOTS of plastics, hmmmmmm, bring to mind something?? Why yes, BIG OIL products.
The problem is the Gaia worshippers, that's what and why? Why have we rolled over to these "environmentalists"? Environmentalist my a**! An environmentalist for the most part are little old ladies in tennis shoes, burnt out hippies and fellow travelers that subscribe to the Sierra Club, National Wildlife Federation, Green Peace and their ilk. Dig deep enough (and not so deep) and you'll find that their innards are very red.
The REAL environmentalists are rancher and farmers of this nation, that's who the real ones are and thank God for them, for their willingness to just keep plugging through the fog producing life-saving food products. But you see my point. First of all, DRILL HERE, DRILL NOW! Build nuclear, heck, let's do things that have a mega-return not only in real energy but in PSYCHOLOGICAL power too, to our enemy.
Yeah...whatever makes “juice” We have seen what can happen when we put all our eggs in one basket. As for as the “not my back yard “folks...I got cyber slapped hard the other night when I suggested states keep their own oil. If Teds people don’t want to be part of the solution then I don’t believe we should have to clutter our landscape for energy for them. The little Red Hen policy.