Landowners in western Kansas have admirably taken care of their property for generations, now they are encouraged to destroy their land in a ruse to save pollution while major polluting jets, old coal plants and cargo ships will continue to operate as usual.

Wind promotion literature typically has statements such as "This wind farm will displace the pollution of 250,000 cars," but there are thousands of cargo ships docking on U.S. coasts, none are regulated, each will create the equivalent pollution from 285,600,000 cars during a round trip from China. A wind farm can't possibly reduce the pollution from a cargo ship; regulations could, however, if saving the environment was truly a motive.

Attempting to regulate and clean up major polluters wouldn't impress a political party, quite the opposite, whereas a wind agenda might and wind farms create the appearance of solving a problem, befriends greenback-enriched campaign donors and appeases influential environmentalists.

A recent survey asked, "Is the government being honest about wind energy?": 79 percent of the respondents said no. I don't wonder why.

An interesting note from Colorado is that Xcel Energy, a major electric supplier there, is now charging their customers an Renewable Energy Standard Adjustment fee, which can account for as much as half of a customer's monthly bill.

Soon, we'll be complaining about the energy and the oil sectors windfall profits.

Flint Campbell

Brownell