I drove through Illinois not too long ago and saw the wind turbines along the highway there. It was a lot of farmland so I can't imagine anyone purchased the land recently for a "view" and got stuck with the wind turbines but I personally wouldn't care to see them everyday. I just know from personal experience that there are progressive areas/people content with volunteering someone else (aka rural/poor/blue collar/conservative) to take on the burden of whatever great idea they have. A personal example of that; my county has a number of psychiatrists on "staff" (they still have private practices) for like 250k (tax dollars) annually a pop to provide "mental health" services to people who cant afford it and may need it based on arbitrary criteria (basically noone who needs to use it can take advantage of it). The county executive and elected officials all reside in a very "well to do" area and made it a point to relocate the homeless into lower income areas of the county and provide these shelters and services there. It just strikes me as them looking down their noses at the "poors" as they provide "services" out of the kindness of their hearts. The reality is, many of the services we would really want nearby are all located in their community, the not so great ones are pushed out to the other not as affluent neighborhoods. And they could be full of shit, but I'm constantly being hassled by homeless outside of convenience stores asking for money so they can stay at one of the shelters nearby. Shit, our county executives salary is 350k. A flippin civil servant. Anyway, I digress. I'm basically just bitching about my community now. And no, I'm not in California lol