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