Here's an interesting map of potential wind power locations in the United States.
I hadn't thought much about it but the Smokies appear to have excellent potential for windmills, etc. Not that I would want to see windmills in those beautiful mountains. 
No doubt someone is saying the exact same thing about the windmilll possibilities in the Great Plains.
That same dilemma is why we're so dependent on foreign oil. Our elected politicians can't face up to these same hard decisions on the national level. This editorial gets it exactly right:
This tiff over gas and oil taxes only highlights the intellectual policy confusion – or perhaps we should say cynicism – of our politicians. They want lower prices but don't want more production to increase supply. They want oil "independence" but they've declared off limits most of the big sources of domestic oil that could replace foreign imports. They want Americans to use less oil to reduce greenhouse gases but they protest higher oil prices that reduce demand. They want more oil company investment but they want to confiscate the profits from that investment. And these folks want to be President?
But there's a difference between the citizenry not willing to make those decisions and our politicians. The politicians are elected and getting paid to make them. Of course, they haven't done that in a long time and for that we're paying nearly four dollars a gallon for gasoline. Dysfunctional Congress? A definite yes. Vote the bums out in November. Please.
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