Barack has windmills on his beany.
Just drill, baby.
T. Boondoggle Pickens
Thanks for the image.
Blow it out your ear T bone! maybe that will power your windmills
Pickens has always made his money manipulating markets, cashing in and then bailing out
on top of conservation that is beginning to happen), must utilize proven and available technologies and be 100 percent comprised of American resources.
Conservation has been happening for decades, and the other item is about 180 degrees out from where I see congress heading. Smoke, mirrors, drug induced dreams, bad science, and utopian thinking are what I see.
T-bone should stick to oil. Leave science to those of us who know math.
Hey T Boone,
Use some of your untold millions in wealth to build a 250,000 watt windfarm. Get your accountants to tell you exactly how much it cost you.
Then get your accountants to tell US how much per kW hour this type of energy will cost.
After you have done that, give us tax-payers a call.
Bryan24
It doesn’t hurt to meet with the guy. Just don’t compromise. It has been compromise that has gotten us into this energy conundrum.
These are the issues that McCain and other candidates should keep in mind.
1. America energy policy has been held hostage by radical environmental and conservation groups who have spent billions to get liberal Democrats elected to block domestic energy production and push for onerous regulations that have not only stifled the energy industry but have driven companies overseas.
2. Private Oil companies are not the problem. They want to drill and are drilling and are diversifying their energy offerings planning for a future when Oil will play less of a role. Their profits are dwarfed by the taxes paid to the federal government and the profits of most nationalized Oil companies from which most of our oil comes.
3. New refineries to process increased Oil volume have not been built and have been blocked by the same radical environmental activists that have funded liberal Democrats to block Oil exploration.
4. The same radical interests have blocked highly effective alternatives like Nuclear power and have worked against the increased utilization of coal which is one of our most abundant natural resources.
McCain just needs to keep his mind clear on this issue.
Wind can certainly be a part of our long term energy solution but it also is certainly not a realistic near term solution. Also building huge wind fields in the Midwest has the obvious problem of increased risk from natural disaster.
There be tornadoes in them there fields.
“If McCain is smart he would steer away from this Boonedoggle, especially with Pickens being in bed with Nancy Pelosi.”
As I’ve said, although we know that TBP is huge on natural gas, I’ve watched his speech to congress in total (twice), and he definitely says we MUST drill for more oil here first, as well as coal, oil shale - all of it. While he also recommend alternative energy sources as well (so do the Republicans - i.e. “All the Above”) - why do you say he’s in bed with the wicked witch of the west? Please enlighten me.
He's an equal opportunity lobbyist -- only because he doesn't know yet who's going to win the election.