[SeaHawkFan]

“It was a little more complicated than we thought,” Mr. Pickens told The Dallas Morning News, a bit of understatement that supports a point made here more than a couple of times. His comment surprises a lot of folks who expected a savvy businessman like T. Boone Pickens not to make an error characteristic of rookies.

Pickens saw what he thought was a way to make a huge amount of money based on tax subsidies and tax credits when he knew wind power was at least three times as expensive to make as many other forms.

[James H. Shott]

He was on TV a few minutes ago, and is still hawking wind energy and natural gas for vehicles. His attitude about this project was sort of “you win some, and you lose some.”

It’s people like Pickens that will ultimately power the change to renewables, if the government will just get out of the way.