T. Boone Pickens

We have been seeing his commercials down here at least once a day if the TV is on. So I don't know how far and wide he is advertising his ideas. He has some interesting things to say in this interview.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njonline/no_20080718_4628.php

Where's his dog in this race???

I would guess if he personally pays for all the wind turbines there will be people out there willing to buy the electricity it produces. Either way he is at least putting his money where his mouth is and contributing to us being less dependent on oil. I think he has some good ideas.

This isn’t the first time Pickens has bought a place for his voice in a presidential election. In the 2004 election, Pickens supported the Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry and offered $1 million to anyone who could disprove the group’s claims.

Maybe his plan is legit, maybe it's not, but I don't trust anyone who is this political.

TheMercenary;470199 wrote:

Either way he is at least putting his money where his mouth is

Or putting his mouth where he already bet his money.;)

Clodfobble;470206 wrote:

Maybe his plan is legit, maybe it's not, but I don't trust anyone who is this political.

Wow. How many people collected on that million?

Texas Approves a $4.93 Billion Wind-Power Project

[i]snip[/]Jay Rosser, a spokesman for Boone Pickens, the legendary Texas oilman who plans to build what has been called the world’s largest wind farm in the Texas Panhandle, welcomed the announcement.

But because about a quarter of the Pickens project capacity will come online by 2011, two years before the Texas lines are fully ready, “we will move forward with plans to build our own transmission,” he said.

Lack of transmission is a severe problem in a number of states that, like Texas, want to develop their wind resources. Wind now accounts for 1 percent of the nation’s electricity generation but could rise to 20 percent by 2030, according to a recent Department of Energy report, if transmission lines are built and other challenges met.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/19/business/19wind.html