Who likes windfarms?

Not the Welsh.

Not the Dutch either.

Of course, it's not even as if wind is cheap. Spain may have to axe subsidies for wind and solar power as the euro zone debt crisis makes funding very costly.

So why go for wind? As Matt Ridley says

To persist with a policy of pursuing subsidized renewable energy in the midst of a terrible recession, at a time when vast reserves of cheap low-carbon gas have suddenly become available is so perverse it borders on the insane. Nothing but bureaucratic inertia and vested interest can explain it.

Chris Huhne, take note. It is bad economics and bad politics. Windfarms are only going to get more unpopular, and if this blog can help a little to turn even one voter against them, then good.