My own observation is that a pipeline lies much softer on the landscape than a wind farm. Politics are the only factor that sways the preference for the latter rather than the former. Bring on the pipeline and let the antelope play and the birds sing with fewer swing blade monsters on the prairie.
Last April we drove back on 395 from LA to Reno. The wind farms in socal were YUGE and a definite eye sore. And, probably half of them weren’t turning.
There are very few if any wind farms that could survive with out our tax money.....Like ethanol....