Reply #38: The ratepayers don't own the ocean...

[benEzra]

just their land up to the water's edge, out to the end of their hundred thousand dollar piers.

We have plenty of land where we can site windmills.

Yeah, land where the rich don't have to look at them, only working-class peons.

If windmills are OK for Nebraska and California, they are good enough for the ocean a few miles off Cape Cod. If the rich shouldn't have to sully their enlightened eyes with seeing a distant windmill, the working class shouldn't have to either, right?

Why are these windmills the only solution?

They're not the only solution. They're PART of the solution.

We need windmills at ALL the most promising sites, not just the sites that the wealthy and politically connected can't see from their golf courses and multimillion dollar estates. Otherwise, just go build more coal-fired plants, which can be sited anywhere, not just where conditions are ideal.