A New Look At T. Boone Pickens' Energy Plan

Oil man and wind mill proponent T. Boone Pickens agrees with the GOP plan to drill for our own oil right here at home. In fact, he says, and I quote, 'Drill, drill, drill.'

Those were the magic words to get me to take a new look at the Pickens' energy plan.

Pickens, of course, believes that the key component of his plan is to harness wind energy by building wind turbines in numerous places across the country. I have spoken at length many times about my problems with such a plan.

However, I do believe that harnessing wind energy is part of the overall solution.

But it is Pickens' proposal to shift from gasoline to compressed natural gas that has caught my attention.

The U.S. possesses rich natural gas resources that could provide power for many years to come, particularly with regard to autos. Compressed natural gas, or CNG as it is called, is easily accessible, easy to make available to the consumer, and much cheaper than gasoline--40% cheaper to be exact.

CNG could be a very effective, low-cost way to bridge the gap between oil and new technologies that will make hydrogen fuel cell and electric autos more feasible in the future.

It is for this reason that I can get behind the Pickens plan, with some reservations about the wind-mill aspect of the proposal.

The Pickens plan is certainly worth a try. Let's get to work on that natural gas, and let's get drilling in our oil reserves off the coastal areas and in ANWR.

Nan Reneges on Her Openness to Oil Drilling

In less than a week after stating she would be open to the possibility of a vote in the House on offshore oil drilling, 'Nan' Pelosi reneged on her offer by stating unequivocally that she is still 100% opposed to such a vote.

Pelosi maintains the only way she would allow an up or down vote on oil drilling is to lump it together in a bill that would eliminate so-called 'tax breaks' for oil companies, which by the way pay over 50% of their profits in taxes in addition to the taxes per gallon at the pump, and take the money she would confiscate from the oil companies to invest in 'alternative energy.'

You mean, 'big wind' as in T. Boone Pickens' companies, Nan? The ones in which you have invested your personal funds?

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Nan claims that drilling offshore will result in a mere 2 cents per gallon savings in 10 years.

But market analysts strongly disagree. Gasoline prices are based upon oil futures. By merely announcing today that the U.S. is going to drill in ANY area off of our coastline that shows there are bountiful supplies of crude oil, the price would drop by 40 cents per gallon almost overnight.

Nan, however, wants us to believe the worst lies possible about oil because she is banking on T. Boone Pickens' notion that we can 'wind-blow' our way out of the energy crisis, and she has put her personal funds on the line by investing heavily in Pickens' companies.

Under normal conditions that would be considered corruption--conflict of interest. But in Nan's House of Clowns in Washington such a thing is considered normal. Remember, Diane Feinstein, D-California, was the ranking member of the very committee that granted millions of dollars in government contracts to Feinstein's husband!

Yet nothing, nary word, was said by the Democratic leadership.

And Nan is going to get away with her conflict of interest because the criminals are guarding the prisoners. This is the way Nan's House works.

Nan also lied about the GOP plan in the House to approve offshore oil drilling. It is NOT just about oil. The GOP plan includes oil, coal, nuclear, solar, electric, hydrogen energy cell, air compression, and yes, even wind turbines.

The difference is that the GOP correctly believes that it is going to take ALL of our available resources, not just a select few, to meet the nation's energy needs and get ourselves off of foreign oil.

But Nan wants oil, coal, and nuclear off the table.

Apparently the environmentalist wackos that bankroll her political career laid down the law to her about her previous willingness to consider offshore oil drilling.

And as long as Pelosi blocks new oil drilling, she and her puppets can push government contracts that will lead the nation to 'big wind' and none other than T. Boone Pickens!

It's all about the money, isn't it, Nan?

We Can't 'Wind-Blow' Our Way Out of This

My quote of the day:

T. Boone Pickens, former oilman turned wind turbine evangelist, claims we can't 'drill our way out of this energy crisis.' Well, T. Boone, we can't 'wind-blow' our way out of it, either. Personally I don't want windmills all over scenic hillsides and on the tops of buildings throughout America. Wind turbines have their place in the solution of the energy crisis. But it will take much more than that, like an 'all of the above' approach--oil, wind, solar, hydrogen fuel cell, coal, sensible biofuels (not grains used for food!), electricity, air compression, all of it. To put all of our eggs in one basket and eliminate 'fossil fuels' entirely is a plan doomed for failure and tragedy. And the citizens will be the ones left holding the bag.
--D. Martyn Lloyd-Morgan

Conflict of Interest, There, Nan?

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, or 'Nan' as Michelle Malkin calls her, is implicated in a potential conflict of interest scheme over her obstructionism on oil drilling and her support for 'wind turbine' technology.

It seems 'Big Government Nanny' Pelosi has hefty investments in the 'big wind' industry of former oilman T. Boone Pickens!

California has also placed on the ballot several initiatives to be voted on by residents this November that have to do with a heavy push toward 'wind turbine' technology, which would supposedly replace dependence on oil by up to 50% in just a few short years.

Of course, in order to reach that goal, T. Boone's companies would have to place wind turbines by the thousands on hillsides throughout California.

This is the plan that Pickens wants all of America to adopt.

Can you imagine a windmill on every lawn, in every field, on every hillside, and on every building in America? This is practically the number of wind turbines it would take to replace 50% of our dependence on oil.

Now back to Nan.

Nan has consistently refused to allow an up or down vote in the House on offshore oil drilling. Yet the entire time she was investing heavily in 'big wind.' In fact, she and T. Boone are practically using the very same talking points.

But what's the difference between that 'evil' enterprise called 'big oil' and 'big wind'?

Health advocates claim that 'big wind' is more damaging to the public health than 'big oil. ' Oregon Live has an interesting report on the ill health effects of wind turbines located near residences.

But Nan and her liberal comrades in California made sure voters' propositions were placed on the November ballot to approve the plan to expand big wind as no other industry has expanded in recent memory.

And guess who would be one of the major beneficiaries of such an expansion?

T. Boone and his investors, such as Big Government Nanny Pelosi.

Do I smell a conflict of interest, there, Nan? Is your opposition to oil drilling related in any way at all to your personal investment in wind turbine technology?

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