[gleeaikin]

I am not suggesting that renewables can replace carbon fuels, but they can certainly carry a much larger share of the load. Why else did T. Boone Pickens buy or lease large areas of windy west Texas and promote major grid improvements from west to east Texas? For those who don’t know, Pickens is a very rich Texas oil man.

[EEGator]

Crony capitalism, with subsidies, was why.

Tell me, how is that wind farm going?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2012/04/11/t-boone-pickens-ive-lost-my-wind-power-jobs-are-oil-and-gas-industry

http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/16/wind-investments-blow-pickens-off-the-forbes-400-list/