Filmmaker James Cameron: "...... artists must connect regular folks to the issue of climate change in order for renewable energy to gain broad support...
“My skill set is in media, and in getting people to pay attention on a positive level, and straight talk, and speaking to a blue-collar mentality.” Cameron said he was “Pretty pessimistic".."The number of Americans who even believe climate change is real has dropped from 47 percent to 34 percent."
Ted Turner: “We don’t have a level playing field in America”... “The field is still tilted to the goddamn coal and oil industry ... I’m mad as hell and I’m not gonna take it anymore!”....
Southern Turner Renewable Energy has invested millions in wind and solar power technology".."Obama choosing to champion health-care reform before carbon/energy legislation was a mistake".
Billionaire entrepreneur Sam Wyly: ‘I love BP’...“because they were there with big bucks when I needed ’em!”
Wyly touted his Green Mountain Energy as proof that clean energy is good business. The renewable and carbon offset seller made them $50 million in profits last year"....However, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a lawsuit in July, claiming that the Wyly brothers (Sam & Charles) made $550 million on fraudulent business transactions.]
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What has this guy "innovated" ?
He wanted to build a wind farm, but backed out when the real coast bacame apparent.
What innovation?
What a nut.
Pickens is a slime ball who made his fortune with his wife’s money. She must have wised up, because now he wants the US taxpayer to fund his various schemes.
He tried to steal the water supply in the TX Panhandle and pipe it to the D/FW area, funded by the government, of course.
When the Panhandle ranchers got wise to this theft of their vital water resources, T. Bone had to drop the deal or get run out of TX.
His giant wind farm plan is in tatters because the government is broke, but I’m sure he has some other grandiose boondoggle up his sleeve so he can get face time at Green conferences and on CNBC.
Loony AND hypocritical. All of them. But that Wyly person got me the most angry... Carbon offset trading is another slick construct to makes billionaires out of a few...at the expense of many. And gee, didn’t Al Gore attend???Or is he too busy attending to hi chakras.
Pickens reminds me of a James Garner character in the movie “The Wheeler Dealers” trying to sell stock in Consolidated Widget.
Pickens can make a point, but his credibility is not what it used to be.
Ping
Congress went berserk at the thought of the USA even bidding for oil contracts.
Thank them for our being shut out of the Iraqi oil way back them.