There's a wind farm north of here on the NY state side, I'll have to see if I have a picture. Most people would view them as not particularly attractive. We have a few of them around here, and they are usually placed right in the way of a pretty mountain view.
Everyone seems to tie electric power to foreign oil. While most foreign oil this decade came from Canada and Mexico (they are foreign), most electric power generation was fueled by coal and, increasingly, by natural gas. The DOE estimates that over 90% of the electric plants built the next two decades will be natural gas fired. Virtually all distributed power generation will also be NG fueled.
Accelerating the proliferation of Energy Star devices would be a huge plus in reducing the need for more and more power plants. Switching homes in New England to other than oil for heating would also be a huge plus in reducing oil consumption. But now there's a glut of it, so maybe not
Foreign oil is a great way to stave off reliance on very expensive domestic oil, and an easier way of controlling inventories. Massive drilling when it bottomed at $30 plus per barrel would have been pretty painful for many companies.