Across America, clean energy plants are being banned faster than they’re being built::The clock is ticking toward a deadline to meet renewable-energy standards. But USA TODAY’s analysis finds local governments banning wind turbines, solar plants.

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    7 months ago

    Some are NIMBYs. Most, however, are alt-right reality-hostile whackadoodles who see any “renewable” energy generation as a liberal plot to destroy America.

    These people actively think that renewables will harm America.

    How do I know this? We have the same crazies up here in Canada. Some of them, despite having been born here, routinely confuse the two countries, spouting US legislation - like the constitutions and amendments - in “defense” of their “freedoms” being “infringed upon” by things like wind turbines.

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      7 months ago

      Nah man, it’s some, not most, which makes it all the more depressing. My hometown is a farm town, and some are crying and moaning about turbines, some aren’t.

      The Business-minded Farmers see the green, the local Liberals see the other green, the Hicks see an eyesore, and the Yokels see da librul nrg and shit themselves because “it’s happening in their town”.

      Yokels panic and lie to the hicks, hicks then get scared and hateful towards the one thing that’s not a Dollar General promising new jobs for the town in the last several decades.

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      7 months ago

      In other words, the Fox News virus continues to spread, and we all suffer for it.

      Seems to be a bit of a recurring theme these days…😷