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The Windmills Of His Mind
IBD Editorials ^
| August 20, 2008
Posted on 08/20/2008 6:19:42 PM PDT by Kaslin
Energy Policy: The mayor of New York City would put wind turbines atop the Brooklyn Bridge under a plan announced Tuesday at a "clean energy summit." Will there be an ocean wind farm next to the Statue of Liberty?
Speaking at the event in Las Vegas, Michael Bloomberg, one of many politicians to whom hot air is no stranger, embraced wind power as the alternative energy du jour. He even offered his city's skyline as a site for perhaps the world's largest wind farm. "Perhaps companies will want to put wind turbines atop bridges and skyscrapers, or use the enormous potential of powerful offshore winds miles out off the Atlantic coasts," Bloomberg told the summit.
"I think it would be a thing of beauty if, when Lady Liberty looks out on the horizon, she not only welcomes new immigrants but lights their way with a torch powered by an ocean wind farm."
Hizzoner had lunch earlier with Texas energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, who has been tilting at windmills as part of his alternative energy campaign.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Editorial; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bloomberg; energy; nyc; windpower
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posted on
08/20/2008 6:19:42 PM PDT
by
Kaslin
To: Kaslin
One more time.
2
posted on
08/20/2008 6:21:18 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(A History and Science Minute.- "Climate change" has been going on for millions of years!)
To: Kaslin
I need to learn photoshop.
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posted on
08/20/2008 6:26:26 PM PDT
by
ThomasThomas
(Orationem pulchram non habens, scribo ista linea in lingua Latina.***)
To: Kaslin
If we could only harness the energy impelling liberals to control the actions of others, we would never be without a power source.
4
posted on
08/20/2008 6:36:16 PM PDT
by
keithtoo
(Why aren't the Republicans running a presidential candidate this year?)
To: Kaslin
Wind power? I have your wind power right here .....
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posted on
08/20/2008 6:38:18 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
("What Our Enemies Couldn't Do To Us Our Liberal Democrat Politicians Will")
To: ThomasThomas
Ramirez did it like this.
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posted on
08/20/2008 6:40:54 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(A History and Science Minute.- "Climate change" has been going on for millions of years!)
To: Kaslin
I wonder how many tens of thousands of wind turbines it would take to power up Manhatten.
To: Kaslin
Did the young Michael Bloomberg experiment with LSD in the early sixties by any chance?
This is just like, way out there, man.
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posted on
08/20/2008 6:46:04 PM PDT
by
sinanju
To: Kaslin
I thought this was gonna be a story about Barack “Quixote” Obama.
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posted on
08/20/2008 6:51:52 PM PDT
by
Minutemen
("It's a Religion of Peace")
To: Kaslin
Does he realize how noisy those things are? (But then, NYC has lots of folks blowing car horns all night long....)
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posted on
08/20/2008 6:56:52 PM PDT
by
expatpat
To: FlingWingFlyer
We just love DADDY BLOOMBERG!
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posted on
08/20/2008 6:58:26 PM PDT
by
GOP_Lady
To: Kaslin
When will this era of mass idiocy ever leave us? ...
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posted on
08/20/2008 7:00:42 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(CTHULHU '08 - I won't settle for a lesser evil any longer!)
To: GOP_Lady
13
posted on
08/20/2008 7:00:43 PM PDT
by
GOP_Lady
To: Kaslin
T Boone Pickens is selling tulip bulbs all over the country. What a guy.
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posted on
08/20/2008 7:14:16 PM PDT
by
Hattie
To: Kaslin
JUST TRY THIS BLOOMIN'IDIOT THIS IS ONE OF OUR COUNTRY'S LANDMARK NOT YOURS.
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posted on
08/20/2008 7:15:59 PM PDT
by
RetSignman
(DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
To: GOP_Lady
A song lyric keeps repeating “blowin’ thru the windmills of My mind..”. Sounds like the empty-headed crap the Demmo’s are always barfing up.
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posted on
08/20/2008 7:18:44 PM PDT
by
junkman_106
(The ALCU can go have aerial intercourse with a revolving glazed pastry.)
To: expatpat
Does Bloomberg know how heavy those windmills are, not to mention you have to get electricity to them, the big Dope.
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posted on
08/20/2008 7:25:08 PM PDT
by
mojo114
To: Kaslin
The Blooming Idiot shines again!
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posted on
08/20/2008 7:25:12 PM PDT
by
Publius6961
(You're Government, it's not your money, and you never have to show a profit.)
To: Kaslin
ASK THE PEOPLE IN BROOKLYN WHAT THEY WOULD THINK OF THEIR NEW LANDMARK.
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posted on
08/20/2008 7:34:02 PM PDT
by
RetSignman
(DEMSM: "If you tell a big enough lie, frequently enough, it becomes the truth")
To: Kaslin
Misspelled, should be: Loonberg.
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posted on
08/20/2008 7:40:55 PM PDT
by
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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JUST TRY THIS BLOOMIN'IDIOT THIS IS ONE OF OUR COUNTRY'S LANDMARK NOT YOURS.
ASK THE PEOPLE IN BROOKLYN WHAT THEY WOULD THINK OF THEIR NEW LANDMARK.