The American way...spend money as if it is not your own. Local proof right here, in your face, in your backyard, with an open blank checkbook.

1. Deputy Power Systems Manager Shailesh Shere said "the maintenance cost over 25 years is [an] unpredictable factor.”

-This is one of the top 2 priorities before making any large purchase...investigate AND KNOW the potential maintenance costs!!

2. City Councilwoman Sissi Bruch said “I did not realize they would produce so little energy. I wouldn’t have voted for it knowing it was that little.

-Obviously no research was performed. She might as well have said "Duh" while drool runs out of her mouth and down her chin.

3. Mayor Patrick Downie said “Maybe we’ll discover that if we had another three somewhere else down there on the waterfront, we could begin to generate something, and it might become more meaningful.

-What Downie really says here is maybe we can throw more money towards this in the hopes that one day we might turn a profit.