[prewett]

Unless the Boss reanimates them faster than you can carve through them...

I think a some of the opposition in the US is simply people who hate East Coast values, so they oppose it to the degree that coastal elites push it. Having spent some time in New England, I can understand that even if I that is foolish way to act: New England seems to be pretty self-righteous in their views of how things should be, and everyone else is just wrong and it's them, those unrighteous people who oppose our views that are holding back society, and we should fix it by passing laws to force them to do it our way. (Colin Woodard calls this "Yankeedom" in his book "American Nations" and posits that American politics is historically the Yankees (which includes places settled by Yankees, so the West coast and the mid north to Minnesota) trying to push something and everyone else resisting it.)

If I'm correct in this, then one would find less opposition by talking about it less and trying less to force people to change. A lot of Red states are adopting wind and solar because it's more cost-effective; every time I visit Oklahoma I see more wind farms, despite conspiracy theories being the local truths. And I've never heard anyone complain about the wind farms, either. If electric cars were noticeably cheaper, I think even conspiracy-theory Republicans would find a way to justify purchasing one.

[tfandango]

I'm late in reply but live in OK. We are the top wind energy producer in the country, at least we were in the recent past. We have A LOT of wind. It's a huge boom for our state which is historically mentioned along with Oil and Gas.

I've not heard a word in opposition to this. It's sad to me that there seems to be reality on the ground and political reality, and they aren't the same thing.