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Well no actually he said that birds kill windmills and also threw in a confused comment that coal is indestructible. The full transcript is insane:

> 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.

parent smcl 8 years ago

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