Bloomberg: Windmill Idea Was Just Hot Air

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is backing off his suggestion to put windmills on city bridges and rooftops after newspapers mocked the idea with photo illustrations of turbines on the Brooklyn Bridge and the Empire State Building, according to AP.

"There are aesthetic considerations," Bloomberg said. "No. 2, I have absolutely no idea whether that makes any sense from a scientific, from a practical point of view."

NYC Mayor Wants Windmills On Top of Skyscrapers; In The Ocean

The Windmill-Industrial Complex is alive and well in New York Cty.

NYC's Mayor Bloomberg yesterday proposed to develop wind turbines atop the Big Apple's bridges and skyscrapers.

The mayor also tossed out the possibility of building wind farms way out in the Atlantic Ocean, miles from shore, that he said could generate roughly twice the energy of similar land-based facilities and supply 10 percent of the city's electricity needs within a decade, NyPo reports.

"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," the mayor said in the closing speech of the National Clean Energy Summit.

Answer me this: Why is it considered ugly to put oil derricks in the ocean, but politically correct to put windmills?

Hey Mayor, if you are going to go whack job, why don't you go all the way? Distribute these to all citizens, with a battery pack to capture the energy created.

Texas Gov Calls Ethanol Mandate a Scam; Prefers Windmill Scam

Rick Perry, Texas' Republican governor, asked the Environmental Protection Agency to reduce the federal requirements on biofuel. Of course, the EPA said no.

Currently,30% of the U.S. corn crop is put into the production of only 3% of the fuel we use. Perry's against this."It's the biggest scam that's ever come along," Perry told CNBC's Jim Cramer.


So de we have a new free market adovcate, who sees through all these special interest scams? No, Perry just wants Texas-based scams. Texas is the land of Boone Pickens, aka, T. Boone Pickens. Windmill Pickens is big on energy produced by windmlls, but Pickens would like a pre-operations bailout. Pickens can't make the money he would like from his windmills, so instead of operating them at a loss and then going hat in hand to the governmet to bail him out, he wants the bailout money, aka, the subsidy, up front amd now. Perry's all for it.

The Windmill-Industrial Complex?

Oh yeah, shady insider side deals and special interests. It's all starting.

NYT's Nicholas Confessore has the details of the windmill impact in rural, upstate New York, here.

Boone Pickens: Subsidize My Windmills

Boone Pickens is a very smart man. He understands oil and energy better than most analysts. But, he has just made an $85 million ad buy to run the above commercial. The ad says he has a plan to solve the energy "problem". The ad states that wind power is part of his plan. What he doesn't tell you is that he is looking for his subsides for his own wind farms. When someone has a plan, they can go ahead and execute it. When someone has a plan and they run commercials to tell you about the plan, they want you to pay for their plan.

Boone, also, bitches that 700 billion dollars are leaving this country every year for the purchase of oil. I say that it's a pretty good trade for us. We get oil, the oil producers get deprecating dollars. Hey, isn't that what Boone is doing in his oil trading business, laying off dollars and buying oil?