OK I'll jump in! I happen to be one of the people that supports Cape Wind. I totally agree with Timbo and Greg that it's a far preferable idea than the current alternatives(Coal + oil). We had been fighting to get EPA compliance at the Somerset(?) power plant for many many years. The EPA and Feds finally put their foot down and it looked like we'd won the battle. Then our president stepped in and "pardoned" the power company, saying compliance would create undue financial hardship! How about all the thousands of people with asthma downwind of the plant? I'd say they suffer considerably more hardship! That doesn't include the dirty soot that everyone downwind has to contend with...He then found some way to withhold federal funding from states who don't meet EPA standards! Sweet revenge on the Peoples Republic of Mass! As for Tar Balls, you guys should've been in Buzzards Bay after the drunks ran aground for our last oil spill! It was nasty!Remember President Carter signing into law the requirement for oil tankers to be double hulled? Too bad the Republicans scrapped that. It would've saved a lot of oil, and a lot of wildlife. These problems are the result of two things, lack of personal responsibility, and greed. Somehow they manage together quite well. As for "viable alternatives", I have mentioned in the past the use of vegetable oil to run diesels, and now my friend heats his Diner with it! It is real and it is now!