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Illinois, Texas, and Pennsylvania are filing lawsuits about the noise caused by wind turbines.

I'm surprised, based on GE's commercials, I thought wind turbines emitted only ethereal

new age music.

I never thought they would be this loud, but every day when you walk out and it is noisy,

it's a constant reminder that they're here forever.

Cleaning the environment shouldn't mean noise pollution.

Luckily, we can save the planet from unpleasant sound by using new quiet coal technologies

and breakthroughs in silent oil, and if we just do that much, eventually the ice caps

will melt, the seas will rise, and our coastal cities will be underwater where it's nice

and quiet.

This is like a nightmare, and I'm full of nights, I caused the flu, and you're in my

body, so I don't know, so I feel I'm cold, because in the chance of it, I win,

because I've had one, so this one I'm not feeling like, because I've been here, I'm in

it's time, just one world, oh I want it, so it's all please I want.

Let's talk about something I'm deeply interested in, which is the green investment.

This is another accomplishment, one of our companies, one of the companies I've been

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