Just put a moustache on the Mona Lisa
Imagine an elegant wedding, the bride in a beautiful gown starts down the aisle to a boom box playing a rap music wedding song, “The brides a h* and the grooms a p***…”. Not very appropriate is it? Neither are wind turbines in the Comstock Historic District. To spoil the 19th century charm of Virginia City with the mountains covered with turbines boggles the mind. Put a mustache on the Mona Lisa. I don’t live in the area where the wind turbines would go but I love visiting Virginia City and that’s one place in the state that I don’t want despoiled.
Green power is a great idea but we shouldn’t put wind farms just anywhere. We have a lot of wind in Northern Nevada and I am sure we can find someplace more appropriate.
A final note: A lot of people think green power, nuclear power, etc., will reduce our dependence on foreign oil. While these things will give us electricity it is important to remember that 75 percent of imported oil goes into gas tanks. The answer to high oil prices is better gas mileage for America’s fleet of cars and trucks. The electricity crisis and the oil crisis are two different things.
Ronald H Adams
Dayton
8 October 2008
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