Vladjmir I am with ya! I’d love to see Kerry and Kennedy try and stop this. I know a liberal’s middle name is hypocrite (ex: Al Hypocrite Gore) but it’s going to be tough for them to nay say this project and it is going to bug the hell out of them! Suddenly the cape won’t be such a nice place to live – at least the scenery won’t be so nice. A million dollar view across the Nantucket sound will be full of windmills. I’m sure all the liberal’s in MA will be kicking themselves.

The fact is that electricity is so expensive in Massachusetts that thousands of people here are using wood-burning stoves and coal to heat their homes this year, and that’s a direct result of the regressive and blinkered energy policy that has been enacted by the lawmakers here in the People’s Republic.

Deval Patrick stated sometime last year that he doesn’t want to see a new power plant of any kind built in Massachusetts again, ever. The stated goal of the policymakers here in Massachusetts at the highest levels is to make electricity more expensive to everyone in the state, and to subsidize boondoggles like wind and solar.

So frankly I don’t want Cape Wind either, but really what is needed is a complete housecleaning here in MA. That’s what sane people would do if there were any left in power (no pun intended).

But, as Confucius said, “The best time to plant a tree is twenty years ago. The second best time is now.”

Not to get all Zen on you…

I would encourage anyone with a passing interest in such things to go to the MMS EIS website. Just look at the Table of Contents, and consider the 12-page Executive Summary.

These are the regulatory hurdles that any major project has to pass these days, including drilling in new areas of the Outer Continental Shelf. Even offshore LA and Texas, where there have been 4,000 oil and gas structures installed over the last 50 years, we have to assess the environmental impact of installing a new structure 100 miles offshore, every time one is installed. (Admittedly, the filing is less voluminous than the Cape Wind EIS, but its tons of make-work for bureaucrats & boilerplate-writing consultants that doesn’t do one single positive thing for the environment.)

It takes a LOT of them to generate a reasonable amount of energy. I believe the only way you could make the statement you did is that you’re ignorant of the scale of different sources of power.

Wind turbines are a waste of money. They will only serve to raise the electric rates.

Wind turbines cause trouble for the grid. The wind does stop over large swaths of the country at the same time. Because of this, they must be backed up by other types of power.

Just put in nukes and be done with it.

YAARGH!

Why would anyone complain about how those big propellers look? There’s a nice symmetry to them – they certainly look better than some modern so-called art that museums waste huge amounts of money on.

It’s one of those questions that just doesn’t get asked in polite conversation by his nominal supporters. The answer is really an admixture of the fact that windpower is a boondoggle, he doesn’t want it in his sight lines, and he wants everyone else to have it and pay through the nose for it.

My guess is that it will go nowhere. Despite the fact that the new, new President pledged to harness the sun and the wind and the soil to run our factories and fuel our cars, the EPA will issue an environmental impact analysis that will find that despite the Cape being a NOAA Class 5 wind area, it would harm wildlife, and the Kennedy family will preserve their uninterrupted view of the sea.

90/10 the first tower never gets built, at any price.

I try to read as little abouat John Kerry as possible, but he was on Nantucket last summer when those pictures were taken with the drunk girls and those penis straws. I think he has a home there too.

Pres Obama wouldn’t dare upset Ted Kenendy, Caroline convinced him to endose him. I read in the local paper, Boston Herald that Caroline wanted to endorse Hillary, but her kis changed her mind. It is a very good thing she did not get senate appointment if one of her kids could change her mind on who she would endorse, she might have been pressured by her kids on important senate votes.

Right?