Wind turbines are such a blight on the landscape

[ChazInAz]

29. Something no-one else brought up.

First of all, I think the windmills are beautiful...kinetic sculptures dancing against the sky. I was recently in Illinois and saw a windfarm on the horizon near the town of Paw Paw that was breathtaking. A few days later, between Bloomington and Montecello I was treated to the stench of crude oil for miles until I passed a lone pump jack toiling away at the edge of a cornfield just off the highway. Visually, it was gawdawful: around just one pump, the crop was dead and pounded into the oil-saturated ground. The smell was appalling...for mile around, a single pump had fouled the air with its petroleum reek. Ironically, this was on a stretch of highway where Illinois had "retro-landscaped" the margins of the road back to the original prairie biota. Long, beautiful stretches of primeval grasslands...then an oil well.