I’ll say this as someone who is totally in favor of putting up wind turbines and who formally lived in southern New Jersey, an area that had a debate about offshore wind farms before:

The NIMBYs in OC that are bitching and moaning about how “unnatural” it’ll look off the coast sound similar to the ones who are doing it in NJ. How it’ll ruin their “natural views”. You need to drown out that rhetoric fast or any future project will get stalled up hard.

I can guarantee that their tourist dollars would get drained far quicker by an oil platform that goes down Deepwater Horizon-style off their coast than by a few non-polluting windmills. If we want to reduce our dependence on oil and keep it in the ground, EVERYONE needs to contribute, even if someone will claim that it’ll ruin their view of the ocean.