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.
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.