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Aug. 25, 2008
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EDITORIAL: Never mind

All that talk last week about energy at Sen. Harry Reid's alternative fuels summit in Las Vegas sure got New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg fired up.

Not "coal-fired" up, mind you. But fired up with that seemingly endless supply of clean energy long preferred by politicians: hot air.

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    • On Tuesday at the National Clean Energy Summit at UNLV's Cox Pavilion, Mr. Bloomberg vowed to make New York City the "No. 1 city in the nation" when it comes to producing green power. He laid out a vision that included wind turbines off the coast of Long Island and atop the city's bridges and skyscrapers. His comments won him plaudits in some quarters as a visionary.

    A day later, though, Mr. Bloomberg left Green Fantasyland and reintroduced himself to reality.

    "I have absolutely no idea whether that makes any sense from a scientific, from a practical point of view," Mr. Bloomberg told Newsday on Wednesday. "Are you going to put a big windmill on top of the Empire State Building? I think that's very unlikely. ... Windmills are no panacea for our problems."

    As Newsday noted, "Erecting wind towers in the densely populated city would be met with great opposition." And a previous plan to build wind turbines off Long Island was killed last year due to high costs.

    As Emily Litella always used to say on "Saturday Night Live": Never mind.



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    zebra123 wrote on August 25, 2008 11:51 PM: Thats right LOL,... Harry, Nancy, Edward (NIMBY), Hillary, Diane and a few others, we can't include Barry cause he hasn't been there long enough, certainly can't take credit for doing anything in congress.


    LOL wrote on August 25, 2008 03:11 PM: Jack,
    You DO know who M. Bllomber IS, right? Bloomberg Finacial ring a bell? Bloomberg has only spent the last 6 years in politics and that as Mayor of NYC.

    You don know JACK, do you Jack?! If you did, you would note that the Republicans ran Congress from 1994 to 2006 (and the presidency from 2001 to today), and "they did not do anything then and they won't do anything now."


    Chas wrote on August 25, 2008 03:07 PM: Hey, I see RUSSIA is buying our coal companies and fields! Just last week the coal mine in PA where those workers were rescued via a small hole in the ground was bought by a Russian firm!

    We already know that CHINA has been buying our coal companies and fields...

    If we keep selling our energy stock, I don't see how we will be "independent".


    br wrote on August 25, 2008 12:14 PM: You sound very knowledgeable on the subject, Mr Moss. As I read your posting I had a flash idea. Instead of installing solar panels on roofs, why not make roofs of solar materials. I mean roofs of new homes and buildings. It obviously is not practical to replace existing roofs. Solar panels would still be used for those purposes. I'm thinking of things like heating water for bathing, cooking, laundry, etc. Electricity would still be needed for other systems.

    Windmills originally tamed the west. Some folks use versions of the technology to pump water and/or generate some power for their homes. It drives the utility companies crazy.

    Woah! I'm getting carried away from my original thought. Time for another cup of coffee.



    KT wrote on August 25, 2008 12:13 PM: I generally like global warming but the hot air I could do without. I could do without democrats as well. Who voted for them? I heard that even some Nevada Republicans voted gggReid into office. By the lack of apparent opposition, except in writing- which democrats must not be compatable with, it could be the dim party had help.


    TimeRanger wrote on August 25, 2008 11:48 AM: Emily? I thought it was Roseann Rosannadanna


    BR wrote on August 25, 2008 11:33 AM: Quick! Call PETA! Those windmills will kill millions of those poor defenseless pigeons!

    Better get Albore on the job too. All that wind is a hazard to global warming and his carbon credits income.


    RHG wrote on August 25, 2008 07:54 AM: Somebody must have taken him into a back room, slapped him a couple of times and said, "Mike, snap out of it"!


    Jack wrote on August 25, 2008 07:29 AM: Reid and Bloomberg are both full of hot air. as typical liberals, they go whichever way the wind blows. (Pun Intended)
    These two airbags have been in politics for their whole adult lives and just now these phonies want to start yammering about alternative energy sources. Both these dorks were in political office during the great fuel crunch of the seventies, they did not do anything then and they won't do anything now.


    citizen wrote on August 25, 2008 05:32 AM: Bloomberg is, like most of his constituents; an idiot.


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