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Cape Wind Ready To Bring First Offshore Wind Farm
An anonymous reader writes "The Cape Wind Project, a wind farm of 130 turbines to be built in Nantucket Sound off the coast of Cape Cod, can finally move forward as they have been given a green light by the US Minerals Management service. Leaders from labor, civic, and environmental groups across Massachusetts and the country hailed the release of the report, as it is the final federal environmental report needed for the long delayed and much scrutinized project to finally move forward. When completed, Cape Wind will be capable of supplying up to 420 megawatts of electricity, potentially offsetting as much as a million tons of carbon emissions and saving more than 100 million gallons of oil every year. But the environment wont be the sole beneficiary of Cape Wind. It will likely be a boon to out of work Massachusetts residents, as well, given that as many as 1,000 green jobs could be brought to the Bay State in addition to a significant supply of clean, renewable energy."
Sigh, the common libertarian approach to economics is akin to saying that the understanding the simple Newtonian mechanics of objects moving in a vacuum and without friction is all you need to adequately predict all physical phenomena.
In fact, you're completely wrong. You're stuck in the central planning frame of reference. You need a Copernican to come along and kick you out of your fixed mindset, and realize that people are all independent bodies with their own orbits (goals). They do not all have a common goal as decreed on High. People have the right to their lives, liberty, property, and the pursuit of their values. Your idiotic notion that "if only I could just be in charge of the world, surely it would work better!" assumes 1) that you have all information (omniscience), and 2) that you can fool everyone all the time (omnipotence). It is remarkable how similar the believers' appeals to God are to the Keynesians' appeals to the Government.