Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 08/19/2008 6:51:11 PM PDT by moneyrunner
As the members of the MSM continue to beat the drums for “renewable” energy, and T. Boone Pickens promises pie-in-the-sky free energy from windmills the corruption surrounding Green Energy is beginning to be revealed.
Literally hundreds of billions of dollars are involved and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is only the latest to be found with her hand in the cookie jar. Here’s the unvarnished truth: the world has been getting most of its energy from fossil fuels for over a century. During the 20th century we began to see the use of nuclear energy. In the US that path to “energy independence” was quashed by environmentalist allied with ignorant J-school Luddites in the MSM who predicted that nuclear power plants would blow up like atom bombs.
The modern environmental movement also managed to demonize fossil fuels to the extent that oil and gas exploration in and around the UIS was practically stopped. Ditto for the construction of new refineries for gas and heating oil.
So it’s no wonder that Americans are paying $4 per gallon for gasoline.
Which brings us to the way that robber barons like Pickens, allied with the MSM and the Democrats are on the way to making billions on “alternative energy.” The formula is simple: keep oil prices high, prevent the use of coal, stop nuclear power production, scare people with doomsday scenarios of global warming via “greenhouse gasses,” pass laws mandating the use of power sources that Pickens and the Greens own and rake in the billions as consumers get financially raped.
Well, that’s it in a nutshell.
Should have spared a few lines to “carbon credits” and “cap-and-trade.” Not to mention the subsidies and tax credits that make the whole merry-go-round turn (at our expense).
Note that Pelosi gave about $150,000 (investment?) to Pickens for his project....and also remember that the only way that he would even have a chance of being somewhat succsessful with it, is IF THE PRICE OF PETRO FUEL STAYS HIGH....gee, you think Pelosi has a conflict of interest here?? ..given her radical, anti-energy-independence stance.
Just follow the money and you will smell the rot easily.
Smell the RAT
Apparently Nazi Nanzi couldn’t end the Culture of Corruption??
If You like $4/gal, Thank Congress.
Pray for W and Our Troops
Even T Boone is jealous of Al’s scam and wants a piece of the pie.
The Pickens Plan is designed to liberate money from the US Treasury, not to produce energy. The law, not surprisingly, is a giveaway, and Pickens is moving in to make a killing.
They have to have some kind of impact on the environment, don't ya think?
“The Pickens Plan is designed .....not to produce energy.”
How can you deny windpower?
It is a well proven fact (about 100,000 MW in existence worldwide last time I looked
1MW turbine in good area produces about 2000-3000 MWh per YEAR at a COST of about 20 $ / MWh (maintenance)
you can get easily 60-80$ / MWh wholesale anyhere in US (except TVA and others)
So lets see
cost per MWh = 20$
whlsl = 80$
profit = 60 $
there is MORE of a benefit to renewables in that they will NEVER give out (solar, wind, hydro, goetherm etc)
Whereas everythng else is finite in general (1000s of years of easy to get stuff, maybe)
gotta think LONG term
LONG LONG term
So, if wind power is such a great deal, why are we going to have to pay Mr. Pickens billions of dollars from the US Treasury to build it?
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