Re:US President Says Windmills Are Bird Killers as He Tries ...
by mdrzn on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @06:15AM
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> The birds can kill it [the windmill] first. They [the windmills] kill so many birds.
Sounds like either an oxymore or someone can't fully express their thoughts.
Re:US President Says Windmills Are Bird Killers as He Tries ...
by krapp on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @07:01AM
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>Sounds like either an oxymore or someone can't fully express their thoughts.
Bear in mind, Trump was elected in part precisely because he can't fully express his thoughts in the way a "politician" would. He doesn't appeal to his base through rational argument but emotion.
> You remember Hillary with the coal, right? Sitting with the miners at the
> table. Remember? That wasn’t so good for her. So the people of West Virginia
> and all over, you look at Wyoming, you look at so many different places where
> they just – Pennsylvania – where they loved what we did. And it’s clean coal
> and we have the most modern procedures. But it’s a tremendous form of energy,
> in the sense that, in a military way, think of it. Coal is indestructible.
> You can blow up a pipeline. You can blow up the windmills. Y’know, the
> windmills boom, boom, boom. [shoots gun] Bing. That’s the end of that windmill.
> If the birds don’t kill it first. The birds can kill it first. They kill so many
> birds. You look underneath some of those windmills and it’s like a killing field,
> the birds. But that’s where they were going to, they were going to wind-a-mills.
> What happens when the wind doesn’t blow? Well then we have a problem. Okay, good.
> They were putting them in areas where they didn’t have much wind, too. And it’s a
> subsidy. You need a subsidy for windmills. Who wants to have energy where you
> need subsidy? So the coal is doing great.