In the Flint Hills area of Kansas, proposals to build wind turbines to generate electricity have pitted environmentalist against environmentalist. Members of the Kansas Sierra Club support the turbines as a way to reduce use of fossil fuel, but local chapters of the Nature Conservancy say they will befoul the landscape. An argument that supports the Sierra Club position is that that wind turbines:
A) internalize negative externalities.
B) reduce negative externalities elsewhere in the economy.
C) create a free rider problem.
D) are a way of solving a free rider problem.

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Wind turbines reduce negative externalities elsewhere in the economy by decreasing reliance on fossil fuels, which are associated with pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

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