OPINION:
I often read that solar cells and windmills are clustered in “farms” (“Washington subsidies not helping the wind industry,” Web, Oct. 18). How reassuring such a description is — and how very misleading.
A farm is “an area of land and its buildings used for growing crops and rearing animals, typically under the control of one owner or manager.” Clearly wind and solar farms do neither of those things. Then I realized tha these “farms” do indeed harvest something — our tax dollars.
Let’s stop calling them farms. They are nothing more than industrial sites for the production of energy. The use of “farm” in this context is just another example of the left’s use of Orwellian doublespeak.
EDWARD J. OBLOY
Bristow, Va.
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