A wind blows past Nantucket

From a NY Times article about the Democrats’ so-called “agenda”: “The Democrats' paper also calls for the United States to achieve "energy independence" by 2020 by increasing production of alternative fuels.”

Well, here’s Ted Kennedy and John Kerry’s chance to show their commitment to this bold plan for energy independence:

The Massachusetts Audubon Society gave its preliminary blessing yesterday to a large-scale wind power project off Cape Cod, saying its studies show that turbine blades are not likely to cause significant harm to birds, as the group had once feared.

Support from the environmental group, one of the most respected in the state, is important because the threat to birds has emerged as a controversial aspect of the five-year-old proposal to turn stiff sea breezes into a source of electricity.

John Kerry in particular has been windsurfing around this issue since 2004. All forms of energy require some kind of sacrifice, but the Massachusetts senators have been blocking the Cape Wind farm because of so-called aesthetic considerations. Coal is too dirty, nuclear too dangerous, oil upsets the caribou – but we can’t have wind power either because it’s too ugly.