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T. Boone Pickens: "The U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of wind power."

Posted by Jim Gilliam, Brave New Films at 1:22 PM on July 10, 2008.

The legendary oilman's plan to save America's energy future.

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Legendary oilman, billionaire, and hedge fund guru T. Boone Pickens is now determined to save America's energy future, and he's pumping serious cash into promoting "Pickens Plan."

Can T. Boone redeem himself?

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Wind is a great idea! [Report this comment] Posted by: fanny666 on Jul 10, 2008 2:37 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Hopefully, he will also promote research money into energy STORAGE, because the one problem with wind is that it is not constant. I wonder who he has in mind- if anyone- for "the right leadership"? I know he made that offer for $1million to disprove the John Kerry "Swift Boat" ads, but then seemed to backpedal on the deal. McCain or Obama? Either will probably be better than Bush. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Republican Hot Air!! [Report this comment] Posted by: weslen1 on Jul 11, 2008 8:22 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] About this time yesterday, Representative Randy Neugebauer of the 19th district of Texas was making a fool of himself on the floor of the House, during an energy debate and made the following comment, "There is more WIND power in MY DISTRICT than in the whole STATE of California!" The thought struck me that he was SO right. There is so much "Wind Power" coming from all that Hot Air spewing from the Republican side in Congress, with the help of the Rabid Blue Pit Bulls on the Democratic side, that if you could figure out a way to HARNESS all that, you could power the entire COUNTRY forever FOR FREE. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Hot air on our side, too ! [Report this comment] Posted by: rafey on Jul 11, 2008 2:24 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Hate to inform you, incase you haven't noticed, but there is a good deal of hot air on our side as well in our do-nothing congress (you remebember ... the one we all voted into a majority in order to take care of business ???). Never the less, I now feel of breeze coming on ........... [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Peculiar [Report this comment] Posted by: goldengrain on Jul 11, 2008 4:34 PM Current rating: 1 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] The article highlight wind power, and then he wants you to sign up at the end, but in the middle it looks like we would also be signing up for natural gas. Careful. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » NOT Peculiar Posted by: zipper696 Mr. Picken's Plan [Report this comment] Posted by: bettyn on Jul 11, 2008 6:52 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] He should harness Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Ann Coulter, Don Imus, Laura Ingraham, Savage, Michelle Malkin,Melanie Morgan,Bill Bennett (somehow those last two always fit together in my mind),and all the other Foxified blowhards as a wind source. Their bloviations ought to keep us going for the foreseeable future. Of course, we'd have to do something about the smell from all those "fartboxes", but I'm sure we can find a way to deal with it. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] He didn't show us the math [Report this comment] Posted by: AsteroidMiner on Jul 12, 2008 5:46 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Does he have any math? Or is it all another lie? No math no sale. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Pickens is Shameless Self-Promoter [Report this comment] Posted by: lefty1951 on Jul 23, 2008 7:11 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Pickens is a shameless self promoter who does not care about the regular guy. His new wind project came about b/c he was using so much electricity on his ranch that the electric company put him on a Fair Use Access Policy. He wastes more electricity and energy than anyone can imagine. If he was sincere then start by being a personal example and stop wasting energy recreating his personal utopia on his ranch north of Pampa, Texas. Ask the locals who know him what they think, and you will understand my comments. He is shameless and is only concerned about himself. He caused Amarillo and West Texas A&M great financial harm. He is full of BS, and this is just another example of him exploiting a crisis for personal gain. His speculation in the oil futures has helped create the problem. This new idea is just another financial opportunity. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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