Jonathan Lopez recalls his days as a student at the University of Texas at El d dPaso – the treks from distant parking lots to classes in buildings spread across
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New York City used to be an early adopter of new transportation modes. In the late eighteen-sixties, New Yorkers took up the velocipede, a primitive version of the bicycle. Half a century later, the city embraced the automobile, and eventually made free parking available for the fossil-fuel-burning machines a remarkable giveaway of expensive public space that many carless citizens would like back now. New York also engineered and built a subway system, above ground and below ground, which, before the
Covid-19 pandemic hit, carried five and a half million riders every weekday a landmark of American people-moving the city may never reach again, if remote work is here to stay.
graveyard? you just go. take a look. a bird graveyard. go under a windmill someday. so apparently that s where you find a bird graveyard. now, listen, it s true that turbines do kill birds, hundreds of thousands of them. but while we re talking about facts because they re important, more birds are killed by cats. almost a million and a half a year or actually by other more birds are killed by cats or energy sources such as coal, oil. and studies also show that wind power actually has the smallest carbon footprint compared to other sources. the president s hatred for wind turbines seem to be tied to his battle oaf them near his golf course in scotland. as for the claim he studied the topic better than anybody over i know more about isis than the generals do. i know more about courts than any human being on earth. i know more been steel workers than anyone who has ever
you, chris? he was missing the beautiful, contagious reaction shot of murphy as mr. robinson. trump needs to use this when he says it. i ve studied the wind. i know more about it than anyone. ba dum dum. i ll be here all week. for me, i hear it and i think to myself of all the causes and all the things to go against, of all of the bones to pick in this world, particularly when there s a little thing right now he s addressing called the impeachment that you would think he d want to talk about this. but the windmill and the bird graveyard essentially is where he lands. i got to shake my head and wonder. i m fascinated by his mind. i m fascinated as to the way in which it travels, and i just don t know how long we can be on this ride. he s studied it more than anyone, but he doesn t understand the wind. this is what he said about how windmills work. but you know what he does know brilliantly? that this works. one, he s got my dopey ass talking about it once again. and it allows him
president trump is continuing his war against wind power, namely wind turbines although the president calls them windmills. and it s not a new thing either. in fact you could add them to the list of comments about light bulbs, dishwashers, toilets. here s what the president said over the weekend while talking to a conservative student group. we ll have an economy based on wind. i never understood wind. you know, i know windmills very much. i ve studied it better than anybody. i know it s very expensive. you know, we have a world, right? so the world is tiny compared to the universe. so tremendous, tremendous amount of fumes and everything. you talk about the carbon footprint. fumes are spewing into the air. they re noisy. they kill the birds. you want to see a bird