just another affirmation that Billy Kock is a dick

[MichaelSoE]

If the vast wind farm proposed for Nantucket Sound is ever built, William I. Koch will have a spectacular view of it.

Of course, that is the last thing he wants. Mr. Koch, a billionaire industrialist who made his fortune in fossil fuels and whose better-known brothers underwrite conservative political causes, has been fighting the wind farm, called Cape Wind, for more than a decade, donating about $5 million and leading an adversarial group against it. He believes that Cape Wind’s 130 industrial turbines would not only create what he calls “visual pollution” but also increase the cost of electricity for everyone.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/23/us/koch-brother-wages-12-year-fight-over-wind-farm.html?hp

[Nitram]

1. Kock is just worried his oil profits will go down.

What a dick.

[Orangepeel]

2. Possibly. But it seems just as likely that he is worried about his view

Along with the possibility that he can't control it and that someone would have the audacity to think they can spoil it.

Of course the money is important to him, but at that level, I think it is more about power and winning. He already has enough money to buy anything money can buy. More money is probably mostly a way to keep score.

[kentauros]

3. If they were drilling rigs instead of wind turbines,

he wouldn't have a problem with it.

[AZ Mike]

4. He's worried about HIS view....

....I wonder where his concern was for those in Michigan who had a lovely view of the black mountain of petcoke.

Liberty for me, but not for thee....

[hatrack]

5. The good news, of course, is that his luxury property will be among the first the sea claims

He'll then probably demand "emergency" subsidized funding for the rebuild from Uncle Sugar, rugged individualist that he is . . .

[Generic Other]

6. He hates it?

Good. We hate him. Double the size of the windfarm and plant it right in front of his view.