Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Obama Pushing Off-Shore Wind Farms

I'm skeptical of the push for green power generation for environmental sake. I do, however, see it as a good thing for us to not have such a dependence on oil given the general instability of our relationships with major oil countries. Obama is pushing for off-shore wind farms and ocean current generated electricity. Interesting thought, though I wonder how many that were against off-shore drilling because it would ruin the view will be for this. Or is this okay since it's "green"? The good news is that they estimate we can generate twice our current energy capacity.

2 comments:

BowHunter said...

Here is Ted Kennedy showing us how much he supports the off-shore wind farms... Not in my back yard.

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/05/07/kennedy_doesnt_play_by_the_rules/

Sean said...

Thanks for sharing that link BH - quite interesting.

I have no doubt the amount of double talk we'll hear on this topic will be greater than many issues. The reason being that liberals have to be 'green', but at the same time they are selfish and since most liberals in congress come from coastal states this move will affect them most. So they will have to support it in public and try to kill it in private - much like Sen. Kennedy did on Cape Cod (see link above). I hope that the fit hits the shan on this one, because it could be comical.