I remain a big fan of Boone Pickens. He has been a generous philanthropist who literally puts his money where his mouth is. I believe him when he says that his wind energy plan is not a replacement for the need to drill oil. I admire his efforts to replace some of our reliance on oil with the wind energy alternative—but I do not like the suggestion that he, who has a long history of staunch support for the GOP, is somehow in collaboration with the anti-drilling faction of the Democratic Party—namely with Nancy Pelosi. It is noteworthy that Pickens no longer ends his wind energy ads with “We can’t drill our way out of this crisis.”
While the information provided in Michelle Malkin’s post explains a major reason why Pelosi is fighting offshore drilling—and it’s not for the environmental reasons she claims—I refuse to believe that she and Pickens are in cahoots. Instead, I take from the information from Malkin that while Pickens is seeking an alternative energy source in addition to drilling for oil, Pelosi is merely hoping to increase her personal fortune by holding the efforts to end our dependence on foreign oil sources hostage.
I’m not believing in Picken’s benevolence for a second. Clean coal or nuclear can beat wind power hands down for energy generation, but he’s not pushing for that.
A simple government mandate forcing auto manufacturers to produce natural gas vehicles would force an artificial shift to such an alternative and they could ban natural gas energy production so vehicles could use it instead.
But that wouldn’t funnel taxpayer money into his pockets, but I’m sure Pelosi would love to do that, even though it would probably be a disaster because of rapid shifts in demand if they did that.