Having windmills in blighted areas like Detroit would be OK, but they've ruined parts of the Berkshires and Poconos with ugly, ugly, windmills.
----- Original Message ----- From: Pete Theisen <[email protected]> To: ProFox Email List <[email protected]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2012 8:04 PM Subject: [OT] Ugly civilization Hi Everybody, http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/296325/north-dakota-journal-part-iii-jay-nordlinger?pg=2 "It’s funny what people — people from all over, from the various walks of life — get upset about. What they choose to be offended by. A lot of people don’t like oil drilling. The sight of it turns their stomachs. "But consider: These days, a derrick is up for 20 days, 25 days, 30. Then it goes away, leaving a simple, unobtrusive pump — which in any case is painted to blend in with the landscape. When the well is dry, the land is quickly back to normal. There’s no way of telling that drilling ever took place. "Contrast this with wind turbines: They have to be up for as long as they’re producing energy (a fairly pathetic amount). "I, for one, don’t like these flocks of turbines that appear across the country. At first, they look kind of cool — like an installation by the artist Christo. But then they grow tiresome, in my opinion. "How about highways, railroads, telephone poles, telephone wires? Oh, telephone wires! A blighter of the landscape if there ever was one. "Remember how Lady Bird campaigned against billboards?" -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
