Tilting on behalf of windmills, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday came out in support of alternative energy fuels from ethanol to nuclear power to break the stranglehold of OPEC.
He also took a swipe at opponents of a massive windmill project off Cape Cod, who happen to include Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“Every time somebody wants to put up a windmill farm, somebody says it’ll hurt the birds, it’ll disrupt my view,” said the mayor.
“Off the Cape Cod coast somebody wanted to build a wind farm and some elected officials were opposed to that.” Kennedy has attacked the project, saying it’s too costly and is unsuitable for the setting.
“I wouldn’t build a wind farm in Yosemite National Park. Nor would I build one on Nantucket Sound,” Kennedy said in an op-ed article.
The mayor argued all forms of alternative fuels have to be considered and that OPEC is manipulating the energy market and moving “monies from us to them.”