Alternative Energy USA: Wine-Sipping Hypocrites Preach Gospel Of Renewable Energy...As Long As It Doesn't Wreck The View - by Henry Blodget

As the nation's first major offshore wind farm, Cape Wind would also help make the United States less of a laggard in the race to develop significant sources of renewable energy.  To a small extent, it would also lessen the country's dependence on the kindness of foreign strangers.

When everyone in Massachusetts heard about this plan they were delighted? Nope ! Why not? Well, according to the official logic of the well-funded and vocal opposition groups that began fighting Cape Wind even before it had been formally announced, the plan was found to be lousy for many reasons, including:

• Wind power costs more than fossil-fuel power (ex. subsidies)
• Consumers don't want to pay more for wind power
• Cape Wind would not lower the cost of electricity for consumers
• Onshore wind power is cheaper than offshore wind power

Of course, those arguments are debatable, at best.  More likely, it seems, people will instantly get used to the windmills.  In time, some will likely come to be proud of them: "See that?  That's our power source.  Where does YOUR power come from." 

So one suspects that what is really going on is that the fierce opposition to Cape Wind, which has now lasted more than 9 years, boils down to a handful of rich beachfront homeowners don't want anything impinging on their view.

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