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Texas Tells Cape Wind "You're Not First Yet"

Posted by kdawson on from the y'all-come dept.

longacre writes "Cape Wind is making headlines for being the first offshore wind farm to earn federal approval, but it still has plenty of legal hoops to jump through before groundbreaking. Texas, on the other hand, requires no review — state, federal, or otherwise — to build wind farms off its shore. Texas energy expert and Popular Mechanics senior editor Jennifer Bogo talks to Texan energy leaders who are confident they will beat Cape Wind to the punch for the distinction of having the first functional US offshore wind farm. 'I was about to write a press release to congratulate Cape Wind for getting their approval,' says Jim Suydam, press secretary of the Texas General Land Office, 'and let them know when they're done jumping through hoops up there they can come build off the Texas Coast.' Despite its reputation as an oil-addicted, non-environmentally-friendly, conservative state, Texas's existing land-based wind farms actually produce four times more electricity than California's."

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  1. Re:Yeeeeeehaw! by MichaelSmith · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    In Texas, because we don't care about the environment, we're actually able to do things that are good for the environment [..] It's the most ironic, preposterous situation. If you want to build a wind farm, you just build it.

    You know, it's easy to mock Texans (from a safe distance) but there's a fully fledged bastard of a good point here. Regulation doesn't produce things. Government doesn't make anything. By and large, government just means worthless expense, and pointless obstruction.

    Given the choice between trusting The People, or trusting that small subset of The People who live by taxing the rest of us and telling us what's good for us, I think I'm going to have to call it for The People.

    Okay lets put the next wind farm beside your house.

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  2. Re:Yeeeeeehaw! by BlackBloq · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'd like to see your monkey ass trying to fight off a group of opposing monkeys in the feral waste that is the lack of government. You would, without government either be throwing shit from that tree you sit so high in be eaten and raped or raped and eaten by all those other monkeys who want what you got. Because without government, we are just a bunch of fucking monkeys. Hey you can go move into the woods (try like deep rain forest) and don't come back! No doctor or clear water for you! Man you people who hate the govenment piss me of , acting like victims! What a load of shit! You don't like living in a governed state... THEN GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE COUNTRY! Start you own shit throwing monkey squad and have fun in the woods with yer sticks and finding food all day! No TV NO Wallmart no Nascar! At least you wont be fat any more! Hey you can always bring chess!

  3. Re:Yeeeeeehaw! by BoberFett · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    And government gives you Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Pol Pot, and if you're so inclined, Bush.

    Government with evil intentions makes private enterprise look downright saintly.