In today's Boston Sunday Globe Jeff Jacoby sneers at the "power grab" used by Senator Kennedy to sink the Cape Cod Wind Farm.
Well, it is a fair cop, small resource poor states' like Massachusetts need to think in terms of energy efficiency and diversity.
Of course, we wouldn't need a wind farm if crude oil wasn't topping seventy bucks a barrel thanks to Jeff and his President's splendid little war in the desert.
ah but we are all slaves in the empire of circumstances, Jeff, Humble Elias and numberless others.
on the other hand, small states with high population density seem to suffer from higher levels of NIMBYism.
Humble Elias doubts there is a single community with Route 495 or south of Randolph that hasn't recoiled from some allegedly public spirited project in the past forty years.
Maybe thats is where the debate should begin, what are we to do with this pervasive "Not In My Back yard" spirit that afflicts the Commonwealth?
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