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Old 01-04-2007, 07:20 AM
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Thumbs down Nimby

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Originally Posted by retx View Post
west virginia has windmills in tucker county for new jersey and pennsylvania
And the residents over in Tucker Co. do not want to look at them......they clear cut the trees off of tops of several hills, in order to place them there....

What irks me is the fact that those same windmills were banned from an offshore area near Nantuckett, Massachusetts, because they would interfere with the rich folks view, and their sailing yachts......so a few hillbillies, out in the country are of lesser importance than those rich folks who keep sending Ted Kennedy to the Senate.......

It's just another case of.....NIMBY.....not in my back yard.....those who consume the most want the effects of their consumption the least.....

SB
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