global warming ping
It must go forward even if it's not needed and costs too much.
I’m not aware of the particulars, but this project seems especially problematic. Getting the power to shore has to be more difficult than land-based wind turbines. Also, as anyone who lives near the ocean can tell you, there’s a much greater problem with corrosion. Aren’t wind turbines high maintenance to start with? Of course, why worry about cost when one has government (aka taxpayers) footing the bills.
When a leftie is against something, a 2% increase is a BFD! When they support something, no amount of increased expense is TOO BIG!
“....and twice as much as some hydroelectric dams.”
...more hydro-electric power I say...
1.we know how to do it
2.it’s lakes provide recreational opportunities for the public.
3.it’s lakes provide a source of drinking water for our cities.
4.it’s lakes offer vacation home opportunities...who doesn’t enjoy relaxing for a weekend at a cabin on the lake?
And New Jersey is getting read for it’s own Big Dig.
Also known as the Rail Tunnel.
Christie figures that if it’s gummint money it’s A OK.
Faced with these ridiculous arguments, I tended to be for it. Discussions of cost were hidden until after Deval Patrick persuaded the administration to push through the necessary waivers for the project. As information on the heretofore undiscussed costs and various sweet deals leaked out, my opinion changed. What I don't get is this: Why weren't these out front from the very beginning? Why were all the opponents to this project fighting it on moonbat grounds? They could have mobilized a lot more of the sane public opinion on economic grounds.
The cost of generating electricity is 50% more, but the customer’s bill will only rise 2%????
How is that possible? Its not like the cost of power is a small insignificant factor in the utility business?
Something stinks.
“The cost will increase customers’ monthly electric bills about 2 percent, and for many that is too steep in tough economic times. “
Just another emotional liberal viewpoint another pinhead that can’t do math.
Simple put: 2% of a $100 utility bill is $2. Of a $400 utility bill: $8.
Most of the New England public is terminally stupid. Anyone from the region with half a brain has by now moved to Texas.
BUT, the energy source is “free” and renewable, so they’ll be at breakeven in about 2306.
Come on, be reasonable, it's only (our) money. If it was something important I'd get excited about it. /S
They could cut the cost by moving the windmills closer to shore, where they would be more easily appreciated by the green crowd that populates the area.
"Denmark, the world’s most wind-intensive nation, with more than 6,000 turbines generating 19% of its electricity, has yet to close a single fossil-fuel plant. It requires 50% more coal-generated electricity to cover wind power’s unpredictability, and pollution and carbon dioxide emissions have risen (by 36% in 2006 alone)."
The only people who benefit from wind energy are the turbine manufacturers, the construction companies and union members who build the windmills, and the investors who collect the federal energy subsidies. Taxpayers and energy consumers just get higher taxes, higher energy bills, and sanctimonious lectures on why their very existence is a burden to the earth and all of mankind.