Posted on 07/28/2008 5:59:33 AM PDT by Clive
Will all gas stations be required to provide 3 blends of gasoline, plus diesel, plus E85, plus biodiesel, plus LNG, plus hydrogen, plus quick-charge plugs for the golf-cart?
Wind and nuke are find for stationary power needs, but which alternative energy will become as ubiquitous as the corner gas station for transportation? Will my employer allow (or be required to provide) plug-in power for my electric car? Again, there is no oil shortage, just a self-imposed oil embargo. Even in the short-to-medium range time frame, oil is here for a while.
Whoops, $1 million was just his single largest donation to them, looks like he sent them at least $2 million.
Well, not much point in reading this tripe beyond this line. Yeah, a completely accurate, factually unassailable presentation of the truth about Kerry's service in Vietnam is a "smear".
Whatever, liberal butt-wipe.
Ole T may have been an oil man all his life but wikipedia sez he’s developing the world’s largest wind farm in west Texas.
You are so right. T. Boone is an oilman and continues to be. He wants the U.S. to use every source of domestic energy that is available to us.
In an interview on FNC a week or so ago he was basically asked if he was giving up on oil and he said NO! He wants to drill everywhere for oil and natural gas. He is just expanding his business with his wind energy business. Is this not what the liberal Dem congress critters want when they say the oil companies are not investing in alternative energy sources. He is proving them wrong. At the end of the interview he was asked who he would vote for, I expected he would say non of your business but he said without reservation - McCain!
I mean the truth hurts deeply.
Comment:
First of all T. Boone was not spouting Democrat talking points but is pointing out that even with a massive drilling program we cannot defeat the future of a world with little oil.
Many of us old oil field trash have been saying for years we need more drilling but also a responsible program to build up all forms of nuclear, solar, wind and coal.
I might remind all of you T. Boone haters that he is one of the biggest contributors to conservative causes.
Or maybe that is the reason so many are trashing him because he is conservative?
BTW he is also one of Americas top philanthropic individuals giving lots of money (over 500,000,000) to causes such as children's homes, hospitals and universities.
Pickens seems to think that drilling for subsidy money at Congress is a better idea than drilling for oil in America.
I’m not at all impressed.
Boone Pickens is running for President?
I know nothing about TBP and his politics and am not anti TBP but when I hear the same exact words out his mouth that I hear out of Harry Reid and Pelosi (we can't drill our way out of this) I am very suspicious. Unfortunate choice of words on the part of TBP.
BTW I am related (by marriage) to old oil field trash as well as current oil field trash so I have a little bit of knowledge there.
Nothing real about it, he's out to scam the public for tax subsidies!
He is in favor of more nukes. He is for the all of the above approach.
And yes he is in the wind business now. Imagine a guy who doesn’t say hey government go do something for me, but a guy who actually puts his own money up. And a lot of it I might add.
Please re-read my comment. I was referring to the writer, not Boone. I totally supported and was personally involved in the Swift Boat campaign myself. Boone is a great American, period.
My apologies. I misread youR comment. Hopefully others reading my misguided posts can at least learn of Boone's support.
Good, glad to hear that.
The ones that are shrinking or the ones that are growing?
If this were true it would be great. If wind farms are the energy producers of the future than good luck with his 10 billion dollar wind farm. I hope it is successful. No TV adds required, just produce the electricity at reasonable rates and utilities will buy it. This, however, is not the case with Pickens. His big PR campaign is to get the government to subsidize, with taxpayers money, his new venture in wind power. He's at the trough like every other "business". His goal is what it has been his entire life, profits for T. Boone. Nothing wrong with this but there is no altruism involved in this latest grab for taxpayer money.
What Pickens is--a business man. He's spending $58 million but it is an advertising campaign for his new energy company--windpower.
Nobody ever addresses what we are supposed to use for fuel until our cars are built to run on "whatever" replacement for gasoline or what they are going to do with the millions of gasoline powered cars.
None of it will happen in my lifetime--or T. Boone Pickens'.
BYW, he is also buying as many water rights as he can.
If his future is patterned by his past, he will continue to give away millions of $$$.
Recently Roy Huffington, another oil and gas billionaire, died at the age of 90...in Venice. When he wasn't traveling he still worked. When asked by a reporter why he still worked he said, "To make more money to give away." He gave hundreds of millions to various programs in the Medical Center in Houston. I think he funded the Interferon program at M.D. Anderson.
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