[shrinkermd]

T. Boone Pickens understands California and is planning a raid on the taxpayers for personal benefit. I wonder whether the Californians will accept Proposal 10 as a unique forward looking proposal.

[digger48]

I think this writer still his his panties in a wad over the Swiftboat Vets Ads. Until I read that paragraph, I was was giving this article a little credibility.

Not saying I don’t think Pickens isn’t planning on cashing in on some of the ridiculous alternative energy mandates the Left has in store for us.

[RU88]

Follow the money.

[gridlock]

To date, Pickens has yet to explain whose dime will pay for this.

Actually, Pickens has been very up-front in stating that without subsidies, his plan makes no sense. So it is a raid on the treasury masquerading as an energy program, as far as I am concerned.

Why do we, as a country, want to invest in expensive technology when good, cheap, well developed energy sources are available in abundance and without subsidy, if we just lift the restrictions? This is madness!

The government should just get the Hell out of the way and let the markets take care of this. If Pickens can make a buck on CNG and windmills, he should. If he can't make a buck, he has no business doing it.

[FatherofFive]

Electric won't work unless we get coal and nuclear into the picture. NG is the only alternative to oil.

Oil is still the best energy source.

[Humble Servant]

Personally, I’m putting a big-ass spinnacre on my minivan this morning. If you hear someone on I-95 screaming “tacking to starboard!”, you might want to watch out.

[dalebert]

I think he is also buying up water from the indians in Oklahoma. Their water will now be used to create power for Texas.

[MrB]

natural gas is a nonrenewable fossil fuel that we import from foreign sources

This jumped out at me...

The author seems awfully sure of himself that natural gas is "nonrenewable", I'm not so sure, and I doubt, if questioned, that the author could provide a scientific defense of this.

And WHY are we importing for "foreign sources"? Because greenies use the gov't and the courts to stop domestic sources.

Hey, LA Times - TREES are a "renewable resource" and you watermelons don't want us to use those either.

[Pistolshot]

Pickens only worries about how to cash in, not about what the 'country needs' are. He's a snake-oil salesman.

Follow the money and where it will go.

[bestintxas]

T. Boone’s plan, like all plans to raid the Taxpayers’ pocketbooks, is not the best plan.

http://www.smartmoney.com/invisiblehand/index.cfm?story=20080708-foreign-oil

[NewJerseyJoe]

And suppose every car, every truck, every bus in America were replaced with a "clean" vehicle -- would that make the country cleaner and more energy-efficient?

Pickens seems to forget that, under that scenario, every city and town, every vacant lot, every green-space field, every abandoned industrial acre, would be covered many layers deep in now-junked gasoline cars and trucks. There's no way the "recycling infrastructure" would be able to handle that volume of junked cars. I wonder how "green" the environ-weenies will feel then, seeing sky-high piles of old cars -- rusting away, leaching fluids and heavy metals, providing habitats for untold trillions of mosquitoes, flies, and rats -- everywhere they go.