Not in My Backyard

Not in My backyard I'd call this hypocrisy!! I happened to catch the tail-end of a radio talk show outside of Walla Walla heading towards the Palouse. A guest on the Bill O' Reilly radio program was the infamous environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the conversation was, coincidently, (since I had driven past a skyline doted with endless wind turbines), wind power. Seems Mr. Kennedy is in favor of wind power as an alternative energy source and believes that it will play a critical role in fighting the dreaded "g" word (global warming). But in typical elitist fashion he would rather wind combines be in someone else's back yard than his pristine Cape Cod coast. Mr. Kennedy is quite content to keep wind turbines in places like Eastern Oregon. Of course, O'Reilly recognized the hypocrisy of someone who could be support wind power, as long as he did not have to look at it. If wind power can reduce the use of fossil fuels, than maybe only the regions that support it, should have access to it. Come to think sounds like the same mindset that wanted to remove our dams. I'm Susan Allen and this is Food Forethought.