Comments on: Texas Oilman: Clear Path For Wind Power

T. Boone Pickens Makes Request Of Congress To Boost Use Of Wind, Natural Gas

[alphaa10-2009]

CBS reports, "[Pickens] warned that oil could cost $300 a barrel in 10 years as supplies drop, if the nation continues to "drift" on energy policy."
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Some people want America to drift. For example, $300 a barrel would delight Bush oil buddies.

Could that explain the lethargy Bush has shown about doing something to end national dependence on oil for the past seven years?

The more we pay at the gas pump, the more Bush parties.

Interestingly enough, while Bush was Texas governor, i he was a strong proponent of wind power.

But then he fell into addiction on oil money, and was never the same again. An unrecovered petroholic, Bush (and father) were known to launch wars over oil-- the last war all at our expense.

[yongamerica]

You misunderstood what I said. I am saying The amount of oil available to consumers today is the same as it was 4 years ago. There is no shortage of oil on the market. There is NO REASON for oil to cost twice as much as it did 4 years ago.

[yongamerica]

Here is a man who has made his billions from the price you pay at the pump. He is the leader of this Enron type ruse driving oil prices up.

Now he wishes to monopolize wind power by riding and whipping the energy scare to ignore good ecological decisions in windmill placement by putting these devices along the major bird migratory paths. After all these migratory birds do navigate the prevailing paths of the wind.

Today there is just as much oil available as there was 4 years ago.

[harp1963]

America, we''re not the guys who are splitting 40 billion in 2007 profits among 30 or 40 people on the board of directors, we''re the green guys who are saving America and you need to vote for our buddy John McCain so we can continue to be the "green guys" who are building windmills.

http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/01/news/companies/exxon/index.htm

[sistatee-2009]

Boone''s pretty clever. He bought land in northeast Texas, over the deepest part of a continental aquifer, plans to pump water from it, pipe and sell it to big cities in southern Texas, and wants windmills on top of the pipeline. He''d also prefer not to pay for the project, just collect from it, so that''s the tax end of it.

[rebelscout]

We need to listen to a man that has spent his life in the oil business. If he thought oil was the way, he wouldn''t be trying this. Doe''s he want to make money on it? Sure! The idea still has merit and he IS right.The only people that think it''s a bad idea are oil company executives!

[randynason]

Pickens'' plan to rid ourselves of our dependency on oil, coal and natural gas is an admirable plan and a worthy cause. Between he and Al Gore, the world could be a model of efficiency and cleanliness, if the deadheads get out of the way.

[hsinco-2009]

They are advertising that there are 120 years worth of natural gas. So it sounds as if there would be gas available for the chemical industry.