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Windstorm; Why Are 'Environmentalists' Opposing Windmills in Nantucket Sound?
ABC News ^
| 7.25.03
| John Stossel
Posted on 07/27/2003 4:47:52 PM PDT by mhking
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To: em2vn
Check out Tehachapi, California!! There are hundreds of them cranking out power. Go East on Hwy 58 from Bakersfield, they are almost hypnotic. I would like to put a giant one on my house. Maybe the libs would think it was more beautiful than the rusty car bodies in my front yard!!
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posted on
07/27/2003 6:26:21 PM PDT
by
vger
To: mhking
On the one hand the project is going to get 28 million a year, for ever, from the taxpayer. I'm against that. Further, it isn't a friendly or efficient way to make energy. So, strike two. However, to me anyways, if it it drives these fagu fakes up the wall, I'm for it. By the way, the Hudson Riverkeepers and Robert Kennedy and all the Hudson trust fund greenies were against a power line coming down around Storm Mountian on the Hudson and had it moved to a more working class route.
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posted on
07/27/2003 6:26:26 PM PDT
by
Leisler
To: mhking
Was there anything, anytime, anywhere that a Kennedy or a Cronkite did altruistically. Wealthy, self-indulgent two-tongued peckerheads is what they are and they don't care about anything but themselves.
To: vger
Check out Tehachapi, California!! There are hundreds of them cranking out power. Go East on Hwy 58 from Bakersfield, they are almost hypnotic. Whenever we drive through there, we're fascinated by them. Huell Howser, who is an enormously popular TV personality out here on KCET (PBS), has featured them on one of his shows. He went up to the top of one of the tallest of them (really scary), and he extolled the virtues of them. (Hard to believe from PBS ;-)
To: mhking
Nantucket Sound, where his family might see it from their elegant compound in Hyannis Port The Kennedy's are known for their penetrating eyesight-when they are sober.
To: mhking
it seems to me I read the enviros were against these in CA claiming they were disruptive to migrating birds or some such nonsense. The truth is they just want us beholding to Big Brother.
As far as the rich folks go, it's selfishness. Yeah--I agree. Some of those boats they own are just PLAIN UGLY--and gas guzzlers too. But no one consults me before they buy.
oh, well. In the meantime, let's all exhale all at once and blow these jerks away!
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posted on
07/27/2003 7:09:24 PM PDT
by
attagirl
To: mhking
They are all sailors out there. Windfarms will affect recreational sailing, but each tower will have a light and a bell. Sailors are adaptible; they can adapt to windfarms.
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posted on
07/27/2003 7:14:21 PM PDT
by
RightWhale
(Destroy the dark; restore the light)
To: mhking
Seems like we've come full circle. Farmers got their electricity for years from their own private "windchargers". Why can't people just get their own?
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posted on
07/27/2003 7:50:07 PM PDT
by
virgil
To: virgil
Nuclear
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posted on
07/27/2003 7:52:28 PM PDT
by
breakem
To: Leisler; mhking; mathurine
"...On the one hand the project is going to get 28 million a year, for ever, from the taxpayer. I'm against that. Further, it isn't a friendly or efficient way to make energy..."Yup! 28 mil a year for maintenance - above and beyond the value of any electricity produced!
The cheap, coal-fired generators be damned, and forget about nuclear. The 'Greenies' are nuts, and the limo-liberals are Wealthy, self-indulgent two-tongued peckerheads!!...........FRegards
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posted on
07/27/2003 9:19:21 PM PDT
by
gonzo
(Re-Hab is for quitters! I'm still tryin' to figger out how much I can get away with ................)
To: mhking
especially areas where rich environmentalists like to spend the summer. A developer is someone who wants to build a house in the woods. An environmentalist is someone who already owns a house in the woods.
We have a lot of the environmentalist wackos here in Arizona who moan about the loss of all the beautiful desert. Of course, what they mean is the loss of all the beautiful desert around their own homes, as neighboring landowners claim the same rights to build as the malcontent greenies exercised previously. Every one of these hypocritical scum lives in a house on a site that was once bare virgin desert, but they are quite happy to make rules preventing the rest of us doing likewise.
And of course, outside the immediate Phoenix area there is beautiful virgin desert by the thousands of square miles, much of it already off-limits to development, and the rest unlikely to be developed even after a thousand years at the current rate.
-ccm
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posted on
07/27/2003 10:23:09 PM PDT
by
ccmay
To: meyer
I'd love to see somebody build a big, fat, soot-snorting coal-fired old-technology power plant there. :)
Along with a couple meat packing plants.
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posted on
07/27/2003 10:32:59 PM PDT
by
jwh_Denver
(Got brains? Use em.)
To: mhking
I once new a man from Nantucket.
His... oh nevermind.
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posted on
07/28/2003 12:07:49 AM PDT
by
Rodney King
(No, we can't all just get along.)
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