I`m old enough to remember these same sorts being the ones saying we should be switching to wind power. Kinda tough for them to do their usual Evil Capitalists thing in these cases, but they`re nothing if not creative. But wind power is the emblematic item in the labelling of environmentalist wackiness—THEY wanted these things, now THEY are fighting them. It`s clear they want us to just go back to pre-Industrial Revolution times, minus coal, and are thus not serious people. So of course they are a powerful democrat voting bloc.
On the coast, we are fighting the off-shore wind turbines planned. The former governor, King:
‘’The Gulf of Maine is the Saudi Arabia of wind,’’ King said. ‘’There is nothing I’ve come across that has the large potential this has We need to be thinking big about this.’’
King called for the wind power equivalent of the ‘’Manhattan Project’’ during a lecture at Bowdoin College Tuesday evening, referring to the effort that produced the atomic bomb. He said such a ‘’wind ranch’’ could provide all of Maine’s electricity, as well as heat for its homes and power for its cars.
On the need, in his opinion: ‘’Filling up your (car’s gas) tank will be $200. To fill up the (heating oil) tank in your basement with oil — $2,000.’’ Maine, with its cold winters, will be uninhabitable, he said.
Yep, this sounds like a case of the liberals eating their own. I thought to be a good liberal, we had to support these windmills. Alternative, renewable energy and all that. But apparently not in all cases.
“but they meant well”