Oil billionaire revises plan to reduce foreign oil imports

[ben_meyers]

Source: Arizona Republic

Billionaire T. Boone Pickens said that his Texas wind farm is on hold because natural-gas prices have dropped but that his plan for wind power and natural-gas vehicles is still viable to reduce foreign oil imports.

The Texas oil tycoon spoke Tuesday to about 650 utility and investment officials gathered in Phoenix for the Edison Electric Institute Financial Conference.

Pickens launched an advertising campaign last summer to promote wind farms to generate electricity and to use natural gas to power vehicles.
"I'm the only person in the United States that has a plan," he said. "Senator Obama and his people have been in touch with mine. They see the merits of what we are doing."

Pickens said the U.S. needs to exploit all its resources, from solar power in Arizona to coal and nuclear energy, but that few things could cut foreign oil imports quickly.



Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2008/11/11/20081111biz-pickens1112-ON.html

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There really isn't a magic bullet to solve the problem overnight is there?

[msongs]

1. turns out CA was not for sale after all eh T. Boone lol nt

[musette_sf]

2. ha! n/t

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. A lot of people here...

We blisfully sucked into T.Boone's ever-widening maelstrom of bullshit, without ever looking at his scabrous and self-serving track record. Picken's is a parasite, a con-man, oil field trash who would piss on your head and tell you it is raining. He saw the speculative bubble, where he surely made a pile, as a great new con and was gonna wrap himself in a cloak of green and get him some of that treasury sackin' that was goin' on, by working the bubble AND a new angle on it.

His SBVT credentials should have told the assembled all they needed to know about the vermin, but no, you make green noises around some folks and they just lose their little minds.

Bon chance, T-Boone. Sure hope there are some indictments in your future. Lord knows you got some comin'.

[ben_meyers]

5. You mean like that Tesla electric car that has disappeared?

There was another scam that made a few people money.

[EC]

4. Those land deals with mccain must have

suddenly fallen through?

[bluesmail]

6. Now can you just go away?

[merwin]

7. Cascade Natural Gas in WA just raised our rates (and everyone else's) 25%

because they say natural gas prices are going up.

WTF

[Javaman]

8. "I'm the only person in the United States that has a plan," LOL

that's rich. So I guess Gore doesn't count, huh? or the countless other environmentalists or alternative energy proponents don't count, huh?

massive ego award for being the natural gas montgomery burns sociopath.

swiftboat pickens can go fuck himself.

Like I said before, if this asshole was anything more than a natural gas promoting, water stealing dumb fuck, then where are the wind mills? even a test one?

he's so full of shit, I'm surprised his eyes aren't brown.

man, so many people on this site where duped by this fraud. I have long known about this snake oil salesman, yet people shot me down when I tried warning them.

more bullshit from the natural gas, water stealing bullshiter.

[catzies]

9. What a great phrase! "Natural gas montgomery burns sociopath!" Too funny.

I'm so using that. :thumbsup:

He's on Jon Stewart tonight, who I hope rips him a new sphincter.