Governor's wind-farm reversal rubs more
salt in downstaters' wounds

They wouldn't last long in Chicago the entitled class would take them apart and sell the parts to a fence or pawn shop.

This is a lesson we need to justify the electoral college. In many states the population centers own the levers of power. Chicago in Illinois, NYC in New York, Philly in PA. The sizeable population outside the cities have no say in the government of the state. The cities in today's America are nothing more that delivery points for social support payments, like welfare and ADC. The founders could never have conceived of such a population of dependents, or their being allowed to vote their own benefits. The nation is headed for collapse. Hopefully historians will have recorded all this and our successors, if there are any, will be able to avoid this debacle.

This is a great idea. Aren't the progressives all about EQUITY (which is a pile of BS). If it is good enough for downstate than it should be the same for upstate. There should be no differences for anyone or any place for any reason. Stupid abounds in so many places. I assume that someone is working on a white paper explaining why that solution is just racist which will give Chicago the out they so desperately deserve.

Windmills require 2000% more metal than an internal combustion turbine creating the same amount of energy. If the Chinese are sanctioned over helping Russia in the Ukraine War, we will see a metal shortage of Epic proportions. Not only will there not be any windmills, there will be a global shortage of pole Transformers, cables and wire.

The windmills are a menace. You see them standing still with howling winds. Off the east coast, the are the death of many whales is a "mystery". Remember when we all had to "Save the Whales?" "They're "endangered!" The wind farm they have already contracted will have 90' towers. Do they not realize how far those things must be driven into the ocean floor? How can they not effect the Whales and other sea life? Are they going to be impervious to salt because routine maintenance will be difficult? That is why the “If This Is Such a Good Idea, Let’s Start With You” Act should come up every time a Democrat proposes ANYTHING engineering the environment or, relating to "equity." Now, they want to dictate that a states, counties or towns "zoned single family" and other ordinances be voided and then force them to build high density housing in residential neighborhoods. First of all how can the federal government decree anything on a sovereign state? Second all of these politicians who seem to know how other people should behave, many have homes on acreage. I think Obama's Martha's Vineyard estate is 14 acres. He could build quite a few section 8 apartment units on that much land. Also, he has 3 more homes. We know that Joe has 2 big places, Bernie, 5 and so on. When they walk the EQUITY walk, then we can talk.

Essentially, the big blue cities want to get "clean energy" by forcing their rural cities and counties to pollute their landscapes with wind and solar complexes. This is an effort to force those blue cities to go build these wind and solar complexes in their own city limits. Won't happen (because the big cities have the majority of the population and the vote-stuffing expertise), but he's making the point publicly. For similar reasons, Eastern Washington rural counties have started a secession drive to join and create a "Greater Idaho". We're going to see more of these secession efforts as rural areas across the country activate to escape oppressive policies by the big blue cities.

Come on man, its not called the Windy City for nothing, pack the wind farms in all the parks and open spaces.

Thats the problem with "democracy". A handful of counties or cities get to dictate to the rest of the state. New York City determines every statewide election. Los Angeles and San Francisco determine California. Pittsburgh and Philadelphia determine Pennsylvania, etc etc etc. The GOP needs to figure out how to make inroads into deep blue cities. We don't have to flip the city, just peel off enough voters so that the balance of the state has a say.

Lot of people think that windmills are a good idea....but Not In My Back Yard......NIMBY. I know that windmills are mechanically unreliable, noisy, bird killers, and inconsistent in power output. The wind does NOT always blow.

Pritzker has his own wind farm all right...... coming out of his backside.