[east1234]

The greens want to destroy the American way of life, just like the Dems in Congress.

[printhead]

The author forgot to mention another site; in the ocean where certain senators might see them from their sailboats.

[chimera]

Yet the utilities don't expect to be able to complete the lines for six long years --

Six years? Oh, my. That means the energy from these systems won't be available until sometime in the next decade, and in the meantime it will do nothing to bring down today's cost of electricity. That's reason enough right there not to do it.

/s

In my state, a transmission company just threw in the towel on building an HV line from the southern part of the state to the northern (something that would have come in handy in the Northeast blackout a few years ago). The environmentalist wackos filed lawsuit after lawsuit to stop it, and the company finally said to hell with it, just go freeze in the dark.

This is the thing that these windies and solies don't understand. Sure, you can put solar panels out in the middle of the desert, you can put windmills out in the boonies where the wind blows unobstructed, but you're going to have to build millions of miles of transmission infrastructure to move that energy, and for every mile there will be environmentalist wacko lawyers filing a lawsuit to stop it.

[Parley Baer]

You have to look no further than the area around Hyannis Port where the skipper of the SS Oldsmobile has blocked any wind generators. The hypocrisy of the dimocRATS knows no bounds.

[calex59]

Of course they are opposing it. They don’t want the US to have energy and prosperity, they want to bring the country down and rebuild it as communist.

[Slapshot68]

The left pushes for more wind and solar, then can’t get them past their own stifling regulations...I love it!!!

[econjack]

Yet the utilities don't expect to be able to complete the lines for six long years -- until 2014, at the earliest, because of the time necessary to obtain regulatory approval and rights-of-way, plus the obligatory lawsuits.

I've been harping on this regulatory BS for years. I think regulatory approvals should be granted in a maximum of six months. If it means hiring a few more bureaucrats, so be it. However, once the agency rules, there is no appeal process...that case is final. If the agency rules against the new power source, those seeking the permits need to refile, perhaps addressing those issues that caused them to lose. If the company wins, they can start construction immediately without fear of subsequent lawsuits.

Much of the "7-10 year delay" in getting new oil to market is because of these very regulatory issues. Congress needs to start pointing the finger at itself for these delays and do something NOW to end it. Somebody tell Queen Nancy to stop trying to sell that POS she calls a book and get back to DC and start doing the work we're paying her for.

[Red Badger]

No drilling for oil.
No drilling for gas.
No hydro power.
No nuclear power.
No Geo thermal power.
No solar power.
No wind power.
No ___(fill in the blank)___ power.........

[colorado tanker]

This is such an idiotic debate. Even if we dramatically increased wind and solar, which won't happen, it wouldn't make much of a dent in the nation's energy supply. The potential just isn't there.

The only non-carbon source capable of making a significant contribution is nuclear.

[Delacon]

Isn’t already obvious that the environmentalist movement is not evironmentalist at all. They use the environment as cover to foward a socialist agenda that involves dragging the US in chains, humiliated and subdued, into a world government.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Yeah, but Ted Kennedy and J F’n K are NIMBY on the idea of Cape Wind, the offshore Cape Cod windfarm project.