Op-Ed

Are Texans smarter than Cape Codders?

One Texan invests $10 billion to build world's largest wind farm
Cape Codders twiddle their thumbs and argue about merits of Cape Wind

"I  have the same feelings about wind as I had about the best oil field I ever found"
   - T. Boone PickensApparently Texans are smarter than Cape Codders. Their state is  now the number one wind farm state in America. In just the month of January new wind farms ($700 million invested) began supplying  an  additional 100,000 homes with electricity.

T. Boone Pickens says, "I  have the same feelings about wind as I had about the best oil field I ever found", so putting words into action, he's investing $10  billion to build the world's largest wind farm! Talk about GREEN energy!

Nationally, U.S. wind capacity increased by 45% in 2007. America nudged Spain to become number two in wind, second only to Germany. 

Surely wind must be a sound investment, not prone to economic disaster as the Alliance to Protect the View would have us believe.

Energy giants from Spain, Portugal, and Germany own 2/3rds of the Texas wind projects currently being built. 

I'm grateful that a Boston/Yarmouth company, Cape Wind Associates, is to be the developer of our local participation in the renewable energy movement, rather than a  foreign developer."Thank you, Jim Gordon, for your persistence in following your dream" - Cotuit resident Richard C. BartlettThank you, Jim Gordon, for your persistence in following your dream . You have inspired 4 out of 5 Massachusetts citizens to endorse your vision. As Clean Power Now has been saying 
all along, "It's the vision, not the view."

Richard C. Bartlett, Cotuit