My studies suggest that at a time when America needs large amounts of low-cost reliable power, wind produces puny amounts of high-cost unreliable power. We need lower prices; wind power raises prices… clearly there are more sensible ways to provide clean energy than spending billions of taxpayers’ money to destroy the American landscape… wholesale destruction of the American landscape is not an incidental concern. The Great American Outdoors is an essential part of the American character. — Sen. Lamar Alexander