Posted on 03/31/2009 12:15:44 PM PDT by CPT Clay
T. Boone Pickens looks tired. Standing in the sunken pit of a packed lecture hall at Houston's Rice University, he's hawking his Pickens Plan for energy independence, saying we need to use more wind power and natural gas. The 80-year-old, with flesh-colored hearing aids set deep inside his ears and tanned bags drooping under his eyes, looks confused and momentarily loses track of what he's saying. He pauses, takes off his gold Rolex, slumps down on a stool and announces in his trademark drawl, "I'm runnin' out of money." (Which, for Pickens, means he's still got untold millions, possibly billions, in the bank.)
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Pickens is an uninformed nitwit who has bought into this green crap and I think his fatigue is due to his realization he might have been wrong. Oil is the life blood of America. Natural gas is the best source for heating. Clean coal, natural gas, dams with power generating, and nuclear is the best source of electrical energy. Wind and solar is a very poor substitute for energy and cannot be depended on since the elements are subject to such variations.
Dittos
Note to Mr. Pickens... Politicians don’t give a shit about anything they can’t tax. So until they figure out a way to tax sunshine and wind, don’t expect anything to really be done about all this green BS.
There will be no T. Boone Pickens alternative energy unless the Federal government builds the power grid for Pickens’ windmills. Which is what Pickens is campaigning for.
Exactly!
Far be it from little ole me to disagree with a billionaire, but I think his idea to tranform the Semi fleet to natural gas is wrong. We need more diesel not less. Coal to diesel technology was invented by the Germans during WWII. America is the Saudi Arabia of coal. We should start acting that way. Their is demand for Nat Gas cars, cars & light trucks that run on Bio/ Fischer-Tropsch diesel and of course gasoline.
To the Boone Pickens pt. We do not need to subsidise the electrical grid to allow for wind power. Producers should pony up. However, I am not against tax credits.
He’s not an uninformed nitwit. He’s trying to take us for a ride.
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