wind energy opponents

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How do you think we should solve the energy crisis?

Here are the facts:
We can’t build enough wind, solar, or hydro to replace our baseload (coal) plants.
Nuclear plants are awesomely expensive and would get caught up in the courts by all the opponents.
Energy efficiency is difficult because people are building bigger homes with more gadgets in them, even if they are trying to do it efficiently.
Many customers do not want to or cannot pay more for energy.
People oppose new transmission lines, which would bring power from other areas and reduce the need to build new plants in an area.
No one wants more coal plants.
Reliable carbon sequestration is years off (we need more power now.)
What the heck do we do?
Some utilities are turning to natural gas plants again since coal is so hard to get approved, but natural gas is extremely volatile and would be better used to heat homes instead of manufacture power.

The fact is no one is taking the initiative.
We don’t have to convert all energy to wind, solar, ect. (although it would be nice) If every home had some solar panels, it would significantly cut down on private energy use, windmills would fit great in those podunk midwestern towns with 700 acres and 15 residents… Heck, a guy in Beverly is heating his home with geothermal heat all winter.

Everyone can whine, but when it comes time to change their lives, no way.