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jasmine621 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 05:06 PM
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What do you DUers think of T. Boon Pickens push for energy alternatives.
This isn't getting as much play as I thought it might with the candidates.
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 05:09 PM
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1. I don't trust him.
His ad calls for wind and solar to "free up" natural gas. And, that will lead to us getting off foreign oil.

He also plays loose with some Oil cost/Iraq War cost figures.

I am happy to hear anyone call for increases in renewables, but I don't trust him.
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DJ13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 05:09 PM
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2. When a salesman makes a big push to sell you something
Always keep your hand on your wallet.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 05:10 PM
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3. Pickens is a greedy capitalist pig.
A SMART greedy capitalist pig.
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SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 05:12 PM
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4. Oil barons have been buying "green" patents for decades
They used to buy them to keep them OFF the market, and to keep the R&D money from flowing their way..
By now they have probably secured a significant amonut of the patents necessary to bigfoot us all with solar/wind energey that they will happily switch to once they get big-gubbmint to pony up the cash to them..
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tekisui Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 05:15 PM
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5. They are buying that any Water.
Edited on Wed Jul-09-08 05:15 PM by tekisui
Any water resource, distributor, bottler, transporter. We'll all be paying $5/gal of water before too long.
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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jul-09-08 05:24 PM
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6. Hail mary pass for heaven after a lifetime of screwing w/people over oil
BUT---I happen to agree with him. We need to expand solar and wind technologies.
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