T. Boone Pickens for Al Gore Energy Czar.

National Journal ^ | Friday, Jul 18, 2008 | Tammy Haddad

[Alcibiades]

I've got no objection to T. Boone or anyone else making money on this but he's lobbying for a subsidy from congress for his project or he wants eminent domain declared on the landowners who want paid to put these monstrosities on their land. He's also make a killing on the canadian oil sands projects. So when people talk about the "evil" speculators driving up the price of oil Pickens could be at the top of the list.

[mnehring]

Let's cut through the BS with T-Bone. He is after two things, the hundreds of billions of dollars in government grants to develop, as well as the monopoly to run the alternative fuel energy infrastructure.

[CowboyJay]

As soon as he started talking-up natural gas as a replacement for liquid hydrocarbon fuels, my eyes glazed over. Started getting visuals of a typical distracted teenager driving around with a cylinder of highly-explosive methane strapped to the car. Not good.

[Dick Bachert]

[mbarker12474]

Yep... Any entrepeneur having a good idea that will stand on its own doesn’t need to engage in a public relations campaign, appeal to web site viewers for contributions, and (ultimately) hit up Congress and the taxpayers for funding.

This is a dead giveaway that:

1) the concept lacks credibility on the merits (i.e., wind won’t work)

2) Pickens is asking Congress to reach into your pocket and onto your property and give a chunk to him

[LibLieSlayer]

tboone is a crook... he is scamming the American people. Screw him and gore-ed head!

LLS

[Tanniker Smith]

Yeah, Ol’ T Slim is makin’ me gag with those commercials.

[razorback-bert]

There are public service announcements about wind turbine lease going on here in Texas. Problems are when the turbines fail, who pays to take them down and battery leakage.

I really haven’t paid enought attention to them to tell everyone all about them, but do remember the above.

[2Jedismom]

Oklahoma Ping!

If you want on
or off this list
Freepmail me.

[BallyBill]

I honestly thought/think he is going to run for President.

[GOPyouth]

Let's cut through the BS with T-Bone.

Yeah, I have no problem with him wanting to make money, but he's cloaking that desire with the facade of wanting to help the United States. I guess he figured that regardless of who wins the election, both candidates are buying into this global warming scam, and will both go along with whatever Pelosi-Reid demand. Might as well invest heavily in what the leeches in DC are going to rape the tax payers on.

[VOA]

He's also make a killing on the canadian oil sands projects.
So when people talk about the "evil" speculators driving up the price
of oil Pickens could be at the top of the list.

Shame on T. Boone.

For being a party to the Canadian shale oil project.
And sending American dollars to Canada.

And not to our real friends (and probably T. Boone's at times),
the Wahhabists in Saudi Arabia.
And all their fellow-travelers killing/beheading US Military personnel
in Iraq, Afghanistan and the other tourist spots of the Islamic world.

The thought that T. Boone is making a profit on his Canadian oil
shale deal is outrageous.
The nerve of the guy!
It's amazing T. Boone wasn't included in the song "Blame Canada".

[popdonnelly]

“we have the man of the hour with us”

Says who? We are about to be screwed again by the liberals and the news media. The National Journal is cooperating fully with Pickens’ plan. There is no news in the National Journal.

[popdonnelly]

Nice dog. Pleasant change after reading about Pickens and his save the World groupies.

[popdonnelly]

I am 100% opposed to spending government money so that Pickens can cause dislocations in the energy market. Pickens is in it for the money, and the people on the Hill are in it because they can’t offend their environmental supporters.

[AZLiberty]

Pickens: Well you know, I think I was the one that came up with that idea that you should have a czar and I told President [George] Bush two months ago, I said there should be an energy czar and I said the czar should report to the president one time a year. I said the rest of the time they give him the tools to get the job done and tell him to go do it.

Q: And what did he say?

Pickens: He listened, he asked some questions, and he said who do you think would be a person for that and I said that I think George Patton would be good.

Read Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism.

[Red_Devil 232]

He is voting for McCain.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT

[shove_it]

The headline you posted is not the original from the article, which is: “Q&A: T. Boone Pickens
Oil Tycoon Sounds Off On Energy Independence”.

Furthermore, Pickens did not state that he is “for Al Gore Energy Czar” in the body of the article either.