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"We're worried about our ability to stay in the neighborhood," Dixon said.

Then maybe you should allow more density. Restricting supply is a great way to make things unaffordable!

There's a reason that places like California have laws to encourage development of affordable housing, and that reason is that developers on their own will not build affordable housing unless they happen to be philanthropists. Simply building housing in non-affordable areas with no other constraints on that development often results in more units of unaffordable housing. While it's true that restricting supply often raises prices in a free, fluid market, increasing supply in constricted markets with other constraints (e.g., too many people with high incomes) may not put any downward pressure on prices.

"We're worried about our ability to stay in the neighborhood," Dixon said.

Then maybe you should allow more density. Restricting supply is a great way to make things unaffordable!

your other arguments seam to be wind power can't make this country self sufficient (agreed.) But their are not enough known nuclear material in the US to be self sufficient in nuclear, so it definitely can't (currently) solve the US energy problems either (unless were willing and able to kick South Africa's ass next.)

Wind can provide provide the US with a lot of energy. And an article in Sciam, "A Solar Grand Plan says that by 2050 solar can provide 69% of the US's energy needs. And while I don't like nuclear power, there's no need to go to Africa, Canada has some rich uranium deposits. According to the World Nuclear Association Canada mines more uranium than any other country.

But thats where putting them on buildings sounds smart. IE supplement the power as close to the demand, and knock down one of the big problems of big buildings (they channel wind) at the same time.

I don't know if you saw it but one of the proposals for a new World Trade Center had a wind generator in between two buildings with other proposals also including wind power.

The right question to ask is where that infrastructure can be built:

Some 30 billion pounds of steam every year flow beneath the streets of Manhattan from the Battery to 96th Street. While it is unknown to most New Yorkers, Con Edison's subterranean steam system is the biggest steam district in the world, larger than the next four largest U.S. steam systems combined and boasting an annual steam production more than double that of Paris, Europe's largest system.

Rockefeller Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the United Nations [use steam] for heating and cooling - along with some 2,000 other customers and 100,000 buildings, from residential low-rises to commercial skyscrapers. All are in Manhattan, primarily because steam is most efficient and cost effective for high-rise buildings.

The number of steam customers has not increased in the past few years. "A lot of people don't know about it or don't know it's an option, or building owners don't want to go through the conversion process and don't want to spend the money to convert."

And so, for now at least, steam remains New York's neglected power source. "The steam system is a great asset to the city and delivers clean energy. We can clearly be doing more with it." Steam [2003]

Manhatten is a compact island with a population density of 67,000 people per square mile.

Manhatten is not hurting for lack of water - one gallon of water equals about eight pounds of steam.

The steam system is fueled by oil and natural gas. Manhatten draws its electricity from enormous hydroelectric plants upstate and in Canada.

...but, as a supporter of the death penalty, pro Real Death. Good luck with that.

If you've got a job, and don't mind the government taking your money and burning it in NYC, its a great place to live.

"Last year (2003), 10 police officers were shot and killed in the United States after a suspect managed to get control of an officer's weapon. Nearly one in five officers killed as part of a crime last year were shot with their own (or a partner's) weapon, according to the National Center for Law Enforcement Technology." - Gotham Gazette

1 in 5 is a lot smaller than 75% (although that's killed, not shot).

From the article linked:

If you commit a felony in Florida, you lose your right to vote there, and you're "scrubbed" from the rolls. You become a non-citizen, like in the old Soviet Union. This is not the case in most other states; it's an uncivilized vestige of the Deep South.

It's curious that another state, New York suffers from the same "uncivilized vestige of the Deep South".

Who is "Greg Plast" and why should we listen to him? A simple search turns up this page which lists all the US states, and if anyone takes the time to read it instead of hammering out more communists bulletins for their leftist anti-US readers, they will see that almost all US states take away felons voting rights while in prison or on parole.

Florida/Old South/Soviet Union ??? This guy is hogwash.