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  • Jerkass of the Week Award: Senator Lamar Alexander- a true dunce of the highest order : Planetsave

    From the page: "Tennessee Senator (you guessed it, a Republican) Lamar Alexander is a moron. He thinks wind farms â€oedestroy the landscapeâ€oe. To a lot of people, itâ€s hard to imagine why anyone would actually be against renewable energy. Itâ€s a little bit like being against... more

    Reviewed by sheaman42 Jul 28 2007, 09:32am ( 4 reviews ) planetsave.com

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  • Rated by gavinhudson on Aug 01 2007, 7:25am

    From the page: "To a lot of people, itâ€s hard to imagine why anyone would actually be against renewable energy. Itâ€s a little bit like being against puppies. Yet these opponents exist, and Iâ€m sorry to say some are warming seats in the United States Senate."
  • Rated by moreminimal on Jul 28 2007, 9:40am

    Senator Lamar Alexander is a delusional jerkass. He thinks winfarms "destroy the landscape." So what's the alternative? Coal-powered plants, with their pollution, industrial sprawl, and mountaintop-removal mining? Insanity.
  • Rated by sheaman42 on Jul 28 2007, 9:32am

    From the page: "Tennessee Senator (you guessed it, a Republican) Lamar Alexander is a moron. He thinks wind farms â€oedestroy the landscapeâ€oe. To a lot of people, itâ€s hard to imagine why anyone would actually be against renewable energy. Itâ€s a little bit like being against puppies. Yet these opponents exist, and Iâ€m sorry to say some are warming seats in the United States Senate. Take Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, for example. Sen. Alexander hails from a part of the country that is home to â€oesix of the nationâ€s 10 largest carbon-dioxide-emitting coal-fired power plants,” according to Tennessean.com. You might think that Alexander is somehow beholden to the coal industry because of this, or that his Marthaâ€s Vinyard property and the debate over the Cape Wind project might influence him, or that the campaign contributions that flow his way from the most carbon-dioxide producing utility in the country are the source of his clean energy antipathy. Not so, says the Senator. He doesnâ€t like wind power, he claims, for aesthetic reasons. â€oeI think they absolutely destroy the landscape.” Letâ€s look at some photos and see how his opinion stands up. First, weâ€ll start with coal. Here is a picture of a mountain top removal"