Not in my backyard. Or, in this case: not in my ocean.

Wrong answer.

To state the obvious, folks, we're running out of options. Whether it's a wind farm on Nantucket Sound, or a wave farm off the coast of Oregon, we've got to fully explore the possibilities of these alternative energy sources.

Sure, we have to be sure that any potential environmental impacts are fully explored and addressed. But the point of view expressed by a fisherman in the Washington Post story titled Efforts to Harvest Ocean's Energy Opens New Debate Front just won't do:

I don’t want it in my fishing grounds. I don’t want to be worried about driving around someone else’s million-dollar buoy.

Makes you wonder how many of the concerned fisherman are running their boats on biodiesel.

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