http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.planetsave.com/blog/2007/07/28/jerkass-of-the-week-award-senator-lamar-alexander-a-true-dunce-of-the-highest-order Comments & Reviews of http://www.planetsave.com/blog/2007/07/28/jerkass-of-the-week-award-senator-lamar-alexander-a-true-dunce-of-the-highest-order/ on StumbleUpon en-us Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:00:25 -0800 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 08:16:07 -0700 http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.planetsave.com/blog/2007/07/28/jerkass-of-the-week-award-senator-lamar-alexander-a-true-dunce-of-the-highest-order http://cdn.stumble-upon.com/images/logo_su_36x36.png Wed, 01 Aug 2007 07:25:43 -0700 http://gavinhudson.stumbleupon.com/review/11506310/ gavinhudson - From the page: "To a lot of people, itâ€s hard to imagine why anyone would actually be against renewable energy. Itâ€s a little bit like being against puppies. Yet these opponents exist, and Iâ€m sorry to say some are warming seats in the United States Senate."]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.planetsave.com/blog/2007/07/28/jerkass-of-the-week-award-senator-lamar-alexander-a-true-dunce-of-the-highest-order Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:40:01 -0700 http://moreminimal.stumbleupon.com/review/11416155/ moreminimal - Senator Lamar Alexander is a delusional jerkass. He thinks winfarms "destroy the landscape." So what's the alternative? Coal-powered plants, with their pollution, industrial sprawl, and mountaintop-removal mining? Insanity.]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.planetsave.com/blog/2007/07/28/jerkass-of-the-week-award-senator-lamar-alexander-a-true-dunce-of-the-highest-order Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:34:09 -0700 http://hibelu.stumbleupon.com/review/11416072/ hibelu - From the page: "Jerkass of the Week Award: Senator Lamar Alexander- a true dunce of the highest order"]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.planetsave.com/blog/2007/07/28/jerkass-of-the-week-award-senator-lamar-alexander-a-true-dunce-of-the-highest-order Sat, 28 Jul 2007 09:32:00 -0700 http://sheaman42.stumbleupon.com/review/11416047/ sheaman42 - From the page: "Tennessee Senator (you guessed it, a Republican) Lamar Alexander is a moron. He thinks wind farms â€oedestroy the landscapeâ€oe. To a lot of people, itâ€s hard to imagine why anyone would actually be against renewable energy. Itâ€s a little bit like being against puppies. Yet these opponents exist, and Iâ€m sorry to say some are warming seats in the United States Senate. Take Tennessee Sen. Lamar Alexander, for example. Sen. Alexander hails from a part of the country that is home to â€oesix of the nationâ€s 10 largest carbon-dioxide-emitting coal-fired power plants,” according to Tennessean.com. You might think that Alexander is somehow beholden to the coal industry because of this, or that his Marthaâ€s Vinyard property and the debate over the Cape Wind project might influence him, or that the campaign contributions that flow his way from the most carbon-dioxide producing utility in the country are the source of his clean energy antipathy. Not so, says the Senator. He doesnâ€t like wind power, he claims, for aesthetic reasons. â€oeI think they absolutely destroy the landscape.” Letâ€s look at some photos and see how his opinion stands up. First, weâ€ll start with coal. Here is a picture of a mountain top removal"]]> http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.planetsave.com/blog/2007/07/28/jerkass-of-the-week-award-senator-lamar-alexander-a-true-dunce-of-the-highest-order