There's a fundamental difference (well, a lot but I'm thinking of one in particular) between us and, say, our European brethren.

I was in Scotland last year. Beautiful country. While driving all around the country, I noticed a LOT of wind farms. Some were just one or two isolated turbines, other times I saw whole rows of them on some ridge lines. When we flew into Amsterdam for our connecting flight to/from Edinburgh, I saw a HUGE wind farm offshore.

Apparently, the difference is, in Scotland, wind turbines are seen as beautiful and a method to get cheaper electricity - and this from a country that exports North Sea oil all over the world. Here, they're "ugly" and some sort of socialist plot.