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Bloomberg on Oil, Energy

Posted by Glenn on August 7, 2006 - 6:48am in The Oil Drum: Local
Topic: Demand/Consumption
Tags: asthma, climate change, global warming, new york city, oil, peak oil, quality of life, terrorism [list all tags]

In mayor Bloomberg's weekly radio address last week, he made a plea for conservation to reduce peak demand during the heat wave that hit New York last week and came very close to causing a blackout in parts of the city where feeder cables had failed. While the press only picked up on the more sensational charge he made, that oil imports from the Middle East fund terrorism, he actually made some very good points about energy consumption in general:

We have to make a decision in our society, given that we are never going to have enough energy in this country as we would like, at any price range: What do we want to spend our energy on? You can't for instance, spend it on air conditioning the outside. It would just cost an infinite amount of money.

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