[Pearls Before Swine]

I live on the Cape. What amazed me about this project is that people fought over it for years on grounds of it not being green enough. Would birds be hit? Would the pristine view of the water from the Kennedy compound be blocked? Would it interfere with navigation (Ted got an Alaskan senator to object on some obscure ground, because he didn't want to do it himself)? Was the site (or the alternate) on an old sacred Indian ground? And on, and on.

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.

[bert]

......Why weren’t these out front from the very beginning?....

Because money, that is costs, are not a consideration. Free Electricity from the wind with no carbon emissions is all that matters. (and, Denmark has them)