| I swear with God as my witness I don't watch FOX | | | | But FOX true to their creed, we present (part of the |
| news, my blood pressure is high enough without | | | | facts) you decide continuing saying "Less than 12% |
| listening to some jackass spin and weave and then | | | | of the electricity generated by these turbines will |
| when they say it's raining I have to get up and go | | | | ever reach the power grid." Why that's the Gods |
| look. The other night I was surfing through the | | | | honest truth! Of course it makes no difference |
| channels and here is this smiling galute with wind | | | | whether the electricity is generated by coal, oil or |
| turbines in the picture behind him, so out comes the | | | | nuclear the electricity dissipates in the transmission |
| teaser line "Wind Turbines how they might not be as | | | | lines. But you still have the advantage that if the wind |
| good as you think." I will give credit where credit is | | | | turbine breaks down you don't have to worry about |
| due that was a good tease line that's almost as good | | | | genetic mutations in your offspring for the next six |
| as "Brittany Spears to marry the Pope more after | | | | hundred years. I wonder you suppose that guy |
| the break." | | | | would like a nice coal fired smokestack in the |
| I mean how can you be against wind turbines? Safe | | | | distance? |
| clean energy with an unlimited supply domestically | | | | And I wonder if the wind farm company has thought |
| produced what's not to love? We'll deep in the heart | | | | this out? That guy on FOX seemed pretty certain it |
| of west Texas a gentleman and his neighbors are | | | | wasn't a good idea, but now the company has gone |
| suing a wind farm because those nasty turbines are | | | | and bought and constructed these turbines hundreds |
| despoiling the view of their west Texas paradise. | | | | of them investing millions of dollars and paying the |
| Long known for it's rugged beauty flat as a pool | | | | land owners $12,000 apiece per year. But I wonder if |
| table and brown as well brown, but I understand | | | | they have really thought this out? A coal fired plant |
| everyone loves their home. They interview the man | | | | would have been a lot cheaper to build but then you |
| in front of his home and the turbines can clearly be | | | | got to like trains because it takes train load after |
| seen in the distance about a mile away. | | | | train load of coal to keep it supplied. You suppose |
| The next camera shot he is standing right next to a | | | | that guy in Texas likes trains, me I love trains. |
| turbine as the blades spin over his head as he | | | | A nuclear plant has a lot of the same advantages as |
| laments the noise "We constantly hear the whoosh | | | | wind power after you spend a couple hundred million |
| whoosh of the turbines blades" Just a friendly | | | | dollars building it and fueling it after that the power is |
| comment to the gentleman don't let your opponents | | | | almost free and lasts forever! But the plant will still be |
| show this tape in court or your done because you | | | | toxic long after Jesus comes and you will have to |
| where taped both in front of and from a distance | | | | store and protect the spent fuel rods and I read that |
| and I couldn't hear the whoosh whoosh and if you | | | | each nuclear plant produces one hundred and fifty |
| can't record it you ain't gonna collect for it | | | | pounds of plutonium waste a year why in fifty years |
| But FOX went on to say that the company pays the | | | | that's almost four tons. I wonder how he would feel |
| landowners around $12,000 per year per wind turbine. | | | | about tons of plutonium stored down the street |
| Where do I sign up? Put me down for ten or | | | | even if it didn't block his view? Enough plutonium to |
| twenty! West Texas scrub desert and I'm going to | | | | fit on the head of a pin would be lethal to one |
| gross a hundred grand an acre! That's a gold mine | | | | thousand people. One hundred and fifty pounds is |
| that's better than a gold mine, no picks or shovels or | | | | enough to kill everyone in Texas. But try and look at |
| heavy work just jump in the Beemer and carry the | | | | the bright side terrorists can't make a bomb out of a |
| check to the bank. Hmmm, you think maybe this | | | | wind turbine! |
| gentleman was offered this deal and declined? Or | | | | I wish him well on his lawsuit but I don't think he has |
| maybe just sour grapes? | | | | much of a chance, now maybe if you had a view of |
| I had a customer who wanted to take me and show | | | | the Eiffel tower or Niagara Falls maybe. Years ago I |
| me a million dollar house. It was a neighborhood of | | | | saw a case on Peoples Court about a blocked view |
| wood framed three bedroom one bath houses built | | | | and Judge Wopner explained, If you could sue |
| prior to world war two. The state was putting in a | | | | anyone who changed the view from your house |
| new Interstate on and off ramp and had condemned | | | | there would be a line around the courthouse you |
| all the houses in the neighborhood paying an average | | | | could sue anyone who plants a tree. Just a rule of |
| of fifty grand a piece. But this house similar in | | | | thumb if you can't win on Peoples Court you |
| appearance to all the others except it was across | | | | probably can't win. Perhaps he could relocate I hear |
| the street from the new ramp was sold to | | | | there are some bargains to be picked up around |
| McDonald's I bet his neighbors felt like that guy in | | | | Three Mile Island. |
| Texas. | | | | |