Cape Wind / Nantucket windmill opposition

NIMBY externality. Residents would oppose tripled electric bills if framed honestly, but frame the objection as aesthetic.

Take the people on Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket. They don't want those windmills destroying their view of the ocean. Now wait a second. If you told them we're going to triple your electric bill because that's what you want — would they say yes or would they say no? But that's not what people tell them; they say oh, it's going to destroy my view. What is the choice? We're now paying over twenty cents a kilowatt-hour in Massachusetts. Those are externalities on what we choose to do.

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