An Ill Wind Off Cape Cod (EnviroLeftists don't want windmills where THEY can see them)

New York Times ^ | 12/16/05 | RFK The Lesser

[pabianice]

Where to begin? With an article by one of America's worst legislators, dumbest lawyers, and hugest hipocrits! This slug gets not only his $50 million trust from Bootlegger Joe but an additional $425,000 a year as "CEO" of The Peoples Fuel Cooperative, which each year sends one super-tanker (owned by his family) to "the little people of Massachusetts so they will be warm this winter instead of freezing to death the way George Bush wants it."

[theDentist]

Another effette nimby parasite.

[socialismisinsidious]

"in this case 24 square miles of a heavily used waterway"

that the Kennedy clan uses for yachting and sailing..can't have that!

such a hypocrite.

[Imnotalib]

Where'd you get this PFC salary and other info? A quick google didn't even find mention of this organization.

[A Balrog of Morgoth]

R.F. Kennedy, Jr.......

might be the dumbest man alive.

[right right]

Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow benind that tree.

leftist/loser/liberal/loon/lingo

[Restorer]

AS an environmentalist, I support wind power, including wind power on the high seas. I am also involved in siting wind farms in appropriate landscapes, of which there are many.

Located where?

[Sunshine Sister]

Since when does this hypocrit care how much it costs to generate energy? The wind is the wind. What difference does it make if it blows over ground or over water?

[ridesthemiles]

AS an environmentalist, I support wind power, including wind power on the high seas. I am also involved in siting wind farms in appropriate landscapes, of which there are many.
Located where?""

A mobile unit, sufficient distance in front of his family member, Teddy, who blows nothing but hot air and an ill wind.......

[Holicheese]

He means anywhere he does not have to see them. Build it where the hoipolio live.

[Maceman]

I look forward to the day when THIS will be the view from every ocean facing window in every Democrat's beachfront property:

[massgopguy]

No no no. Put it where Black people live.

[PeterPrinciple]

I wouldn't build a wind farm in Yosemite National Park.

I wouldn't either but I would build a geo thermal energy farm there.

[Restorer]

Perhaps I've just missed it, but I have yet to see an environmentalist group promote a specific location as appropriate for a windfarm.

They are all in favor of them in the abstract, but invariably come up with reasons why a specific location is inappropriate.

Like their opposition to "final disposal" of nuclear waste. Anywhere that is suggested is opposed, on the theory that perhaps the location isn't absolutely perfect. Which only results in the dangerous stuff remaining in temporary storage locations which are infinitely worse.

"The perfect is the enemy of the good."

Environmentalists generally demand perfection, no trade-offs allowed. Which, of course, allows them to remain ideologically pure. They refuse to muck about in the real world where real choices have to be made.

[Restorer]

You are probably thinking of Yellowstone.

[Alex Murphy]

And because offshore wind costs twice as much as gas-fired electricity and significantly more than onshore wind, the project is financially feasible only because the federal and state governments have promised $241 million in subsidies...

Oops. Maybe you shouldn't have voted for subsidizing those "green" energy companies, Senator.

[Gay State Conservative]

It's surprising how many anti-windfarm bumper stickers you see on BMWs and Land Rovers around suburban Boston.Well, it's not really surprising if you get to know the rich,phony leftists around here.

One of my favorite examples of leftist multicultural hypocrisy is chronicled in this piece from the Harvard Crimson (yes,*that* Harvard Crimson).

A note to anyone who reads it;when you see references to Brattle Street and that particular neighborhood,remember that the homes there are among the most expensive you'll find in America and they're *all* owned by the movers and shakers at Harvard and MIT (senior faculty and administrators). Link:http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=241470

[Lou L]

Typical liberal. "Good enough for thee, but not for me!"

[television is just wrong]

An ill wind, must be Teddy K and John K exhaling again

[Holicheese]

I am sure they wouldn't mind if they were built in Revere or Chelsea. They would never be caught dead in Chelsea!

You are so right. They complain but never have an answer to the problem.