Wind farms and blowhards: A match made in Heaven

Wind farms and blowhards: A match made in heaven

WorldNetDaily ^ | 5-15-06 | Doug Powers


The search for alternative and clean sources for energy is ongoing. One huge resource for natural power is the wind, and it can be harnessed and converted to electricity with windmills â?? unless it obstructs the view of a Kennedy. But we'll get to that in a second.

It has just been announced that a wind farm will be built off the Texas coast, near South Padre Island. According to the Associated Press, 170 windmills will be placed in the Gulf of Mexico by a company called Superior Renewable Energy. The project is expected to cost $1 billion to $2 billion. When ready in about five years, the 400-foot turbines would generate enough energy to power 125,000 homes.

That's right. Texas, home of ExxonMobil, the Bush family, and other evil things that chap the oft-sizable rumps of liberals, steps up to the plate as it concerns developing clean alternative sources of energy.

Meanwhile, a man who champions the fight against Big Oil greed â?? Ted Kennedy â?? and many other good environmentally conscious liberals who inhabit the Martha's Vineyard-Nantucket-Hyannis Port area during the summer, are fighting the proposed building of a similar wind farm in Nantucket Sound.

Why are they opposed? Because it will be unsightly, among other issues. If area residents have to look at a shirtless Ted all summer, will some windmills barely visible from shore really make much of a difference as far as aesthetics go? This is like Courtney Love's neighbors taking up a petition to keep Carrot Top from buying property in the area.

Former CBS News anchor and Martha's Vineyard resident, Walter Cronkite, also opposes a Nantucket Sound wind farm: "Our natural treasures should be off limits to industrialization, and Nantucket is one of those treasures."

Having visited Martha's Vineyard a while back and sailed within 20 yards of Cronkite's floating part-time home, I can report firsthand that Walter's industrial-strength sailboat did little if anything to enhance the pristine land and seascape of that particular national treasure, not to mention supply clean energy to the area.

If Cronkite had a place on South Padre Island, Texas, guess what area would be a "national treasure" right now? Wealthy liberals really have it figured out. Living in proximity to "national treasures" is quite pricey, which leaves the rest of us existing elsewhere â?? in the places where they push off all the "unsightly" stuff like windmills and paroled rapists. Kennedy and Cronkite live on "national treasures". You and I live on eminent domainable parcels.

Staunch environmentalist Robert Kennedy Jr. also opposes the wind farm. In a December 2005 op-ed in the New York Times, Kennedy cited a number of reasons for his opposition to the proposed Nantucket Sound wind farm ( ... cough ... "the view from our living room"). This includes a concern that the windmills will be close to shipping and ferry lanes and could pose hazards. Unless Patrick's captaining and late for another vote, this shouldn't be much of a problem.

It makes sense to put energy-generating windmills in proximity to where the greatest number of blowhards reside. Between the Kennedys, the Heinz-Kerrys, and some other walking oxymorons who inhabit the area â?? the wealthy bankrupt, the mansioned homeless, the environmentalist polluters, the fantasy-world realists and gated-neighborhood communers with nature â?? there should be enough wind to power the Vineyard for decades.

Kennedy's concern for the pristine nature of the off-Massachusetts waters is irony at its finest. Over the years, assorted Kennedy modes of transportation have entered the water and put so much oil and debris in the Sound that would have â?? if their last name wasn't Kennedy â?? earned them a handsome fine from the Environmental Protection Agency and an honorary Exxon Valdez crew jacket. As a result, I'm not sure they're the proper family to be judging East Coast cleanliness.

So, congratulations, Texas, for having the guts to look past your evil oil greed and begin to harness wind power. The caring "uber environmentalists" in and around the Kennedy compound have, once again, been exposed for what they are: selfish frauds.

The Kennedys â?? a family seemingly consumed by the eternal quest to use "public service" to atone for their personal mistakes with somebody else's money (if that's not twisted, nothing is) â?? have a chance to set an example by "taking one for the team" on clean energy. A way must be found to avoid that at any cost.

If anybody's going to pay the price for the development of clean energy sources â?? not to mention having to look at them right outside the kitchen window, it's going to be you. The Kennedys will then accept credit for saving the planet. It's a shame we can't harness the power of gall.