Posted on 05/03/2006 10:55:16 PM PDT by Coastal
WASHINGTON -- Rich, oceanfront residents of Cape Cod do not want their view of Nantucket Sound faintly obstructed by offshore protrusions of a proposed wind farm. So, they have hired high-priced lobbyists to kill Cape Wind, a project providing an environmentally sound source of energy. Their most important ally in this venture is a fellow wealthy Cape Cod landowner, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Opposition to America's first offshore wind farm seems a peculiar posture for the liberal lion of the Senate. The self-indulgent squires of Cape Cod likewise seem a strange set of friends for Teddy Kennedy. He is also joined in opposition by Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican presidential prospect. Furthermore, Kennedy's key congressional allies against the wind farm are two senior Alaska Republicans who are reigning princes of pork on Capitol Hill, Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young.
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Doen't the Senator put out enough hot gas to run those things?
This is tailor-made for Republicans, we should be on the attack on energy issues. Democrats oppose refineries, pipelines, drilling, they have destroyed the nuclear industry, they oppose every power plant, they are organizing to shut down existing power plants, they fight every wind farm that is proposed, not only the one off Massachusetts, but every wind farm.
Environmentalists, which is to say, Democrats, only favor windfarms if you are trying to build a power plant. But it is only theoretical windfarms they favor. If you are trying to build a real windfarm, they will fight you tooth and nail.
That is the Democratic Party. We should take Dem policy and wrap it around their necks, and make them choke on it at election time. We should not be running away on energy, we should be attacking every day.
This is one issue that even Oprah-watchers should be able to understand. If you like $3 dollar gasoline, you're going to love $4 dollar gasoline. And if you love $4 dollar gasoline, vote Democrat.
Priceless. Hey is that a car there in the water....
Guess Massachussettes thinks that having at least one "windbag" in the state is already way too many.
Well said, there is an unholy alliance between big oil and enviros. Both benefit from squeezing down CxHx energy supplies to drive up demand-prices, an ENRON-type collusion. Be it windmills, nuclear, any alternate energy source as a possible competitor, they try to KILL in any way they can. Indifference, outright hostility(much like the immune system fights invading pathogens), regulations, lawyer delays, court rulings, the "wet work" boys....any possible tool to KILL competing energy sources is their M.O. No business ever funds its competitor... Having "lived" in the new energy community for years now it's sad to see so many WONDERFUL ideas smothered in the cradle from financial starvation and outright hostility from vested interests in the energy field; if you only KNEW...
the guy next to me was from British Columbia.....they are actually paying much more than we do, even with the differances in litre/gallon considered....
I thought to myself then that its OUR OWN DAMN FAULT that the gas companies have us by the necks....we had the chance back in the 70's to have sleeker, more efficient cars and trucks and we squandered it all away.....
not to mention Alaska...not to mention the oil off of Florida...
we could have had a very fuel efficient fleet of cars, we could have had oil from Anwar, and off the shore of Florida, and we could have had massive wind and solar energy producing plants if only we had made up our minds back then to do it....
but we voted for leaders who floundered it all away...typified by the bloated Kennedy in Mass.........
No disagreement from me. But the GOP is too stooopid and lazy to take this approach.
Then TX Governor Bush signed into law the most lauded Renewable Portfolio Standard of any state, which has created a boom for wind energy and is expected to be increased by "popular" demand. Why he never touts this accomplishment and doesn't try to do the same for our nation is very perplexing...
Teddy Chappaquiddick has FRIENDS!!?? Who knew!!???
It is better to kill off-shore wind-farms than blondes in Oldsmobiles or small airplanes!
Kennedy's key congressional allies against the wind farm are two senior Alaska Republicans who are reigning princes of pork on Capitol Hill, Sen. Ted Stevens and Rep. Don Young.
The term whores comes to mind!
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