For a few weeks now we’ve been bombarded on radio and television by ads paid for and staring T. Boone Pickens, life-long oilman and heavy investor in natural gas and of all things - wind energy. It seems that if the Pickens plan were to be fully implemented by the people of the US ‘ol T. Boone would stand to substantially gain financially from both sides of the deal. But the story doesn’t stop there.
The libtards, and most notably her Imperial Highness Nancy Pelosi, are in favor of expanding wind energy. According to research conducted by and cited by Michelle Malkin, Nancy Pelosi is heavily invested in T. Boone’s wind energy company herself.
Which brings us to Madame Speaker’s 2007 financial disclosure form. Schedule III lists “Assets and ‘Unearned Income’” of between $100,001-$250,000 from Clean Energy Fuels Corp. — Public Common Stock. Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (CLNE) is a natural gas provider founded by T. Boone Pickens. Yep, that T. Boone Pickens — former oilman turned wind-power evangelist whose ads touting a national wind campaign are now as ubiquitous as Viagra promos.
Naturally, the Pickens Big Wind plan is proudly endorsed by Do-Nothing Pelosi’s friends at the obstructionist Sierra Club. Through another company, Mesa Power, Pickens has committed upward of $12 billion in wind farms on the Texas panhandle. CLNE and Mesa Power are separate entities, but what benefits one piece of the Pickens puzzle benefits them all. The wind venture, as Pickens himself acknowledges, depends on permanent federal subsidies.
Pickens is banking on ‘em. And Pelosi is banking on him.
As reported on dontgomovement.com, Speaker Pelosi bought between $50,000 and $100,000 worth of stock in Pickens’ CLNE Corp. in May 2007 on the day of the initial public offering:
“She, and other investors, stand to gain a substantial return on their investment if gasoline prices stay high, and municipal, state and even the Federal governments start using natural gas as their primary fuel source. If gasoline prices fall? Alternative fuels and the cost to convert fleets over to them become less and less attractive.” SOURCE
So… Light dawns on Marble Head.
Gavel the Congress closed in order to pimp a failing book so that the will of the people can be ignored long enough that “the people” can have their minds polluted by ‘ol T. Boone and his fantastical tale of a nation in which cars run on natural gas (which makes him money) and 20% of electricity is derived from wind farms (which also makes him - and Nancy - money).
But there is something that T. Boone and Nancy won’t be telling you.
From of all sources - The Oregonian:
Wind whips up health fears Sherry Eaton pulled into the driveway of her rural, high-desert home to see one of several giant wind turbines being assembled a half-mile away.
“I started to cry,” Eaton, 57, recalled of her first sight of the Willow Creek Wind Project in late July. “They’re going to be hanging over the back of our house, and now there’s the medical thing.”
“The medical thing” is new research suggesting that living close to wind turbines, as Eaton and her 60-year old husband, Mike, soon will be doing, can cause sleep disorders, difficulty with equilibrium, headaches, childhood “night terrors” and other health problems.
It kind of fits doesn’t it? We’ve been hearing for years out of the left that high tension power lines cause all kinds of similar health concerns. Let’s multiply that by a couple of thousand times throughout the Great Plains and give it some time then we’ll hear of catastrophic outbreaks of cancer and birth defects as people live in the shadow of these huge wind turbines.
On top of all the health concerns, what interests me is that there is little being said on this front from the leftards. I mean where are the cries from the animal rights wackos about the millions of dead birds that would be the result of the building of the thousands of wind turbines required to produce 20% of the nation’s electricity? How about the idiots who oppose off-shore drilling because oil platforms would destroy scenery? Wouldn’t thousands of wind turbines bisecting our nation be as much of an eye-sore? What about the nanny-staters who are so concerned about America’s obesity problem that they are convincing politicians to ban transfats? Aren’t they concerned about potential health problems associated with the magnetic fields created by these wind farms?
The bottom line is that there is no substitute for the energy provided by oil. And no matter who tries to convince you that a combination of the limited “alternative” sources “would” or “could” eliminate our dependency on foreign oil, they are wrong. Every form of energy has risks and the subject requires prudent weighing of pros and cons before we place all of our faith behind a new source of energy and run into a problem in the future.
Some say corn is the answer. What if there is another drought like the “Dust Bowl” of the 1930s? Other say wind. What if the health problems associated with wind energy leads to a substantial rise in cancer diagnoses and birth defects? And after conversion to wind, how long would it take for bird lovers to be up in arms over the wholesale slaughter of bird species?
I agree that we should free up fuel oil and natural gas resources currently being used to produce electricity for transportation and manufacturing needs. But the question is with what. The only viable solution to that question is expanded coal mining and clean coal technology combined with the building of new nuclear power plants.
The lefties have successfully blocked the building of new nuclear power plants since the 1970s based on fear mongering. They show the movie, ‘The China Syndrome’ and fear spreads. The point to Chernobyl and fear spreads. But what they aren’t explaining is ‘The China Syndrome’ is a work of fiction and Chernobyl was a failure of a plant in the Soviet Union caused by a failed political system that encouraged mediocrity and lack of a work ethic. The Soviets built a plant that was destined for accident before it was completed. Soviet craftsmanship outside of the AK-47 is not exactly known as quality.
Fact is that one of the nations that the American political left looks to as an example of how we should live is France. France gets most of their electrical power from… wait for it… nuclear power. OMG! HOW CAN THAT BE!
If this nation were to expand our cleaner than ever before coal technologies and built more nuclear power plants, it would do more than just free up oil and natural gas that could be better used for transportation and manufacturing, it would create jobs. WOW, an ECONOMIC BOON TO BOOT! Say it isn’t so Gribbit!
It is so.
Wind Energy is nothing more than more pie-in-the-sky liberal dreaming. A source of energy with a lot of promise but without fully facing the realities of the price of clean energy we may end up facing a repeat of what happened to hydroelectric energy.
Hydroelectric dams are THE cleanest and most efficient way to produce electricity. But what are the environmentalists doing to the dams? They are getting them blown up because they have an environmental impact. Salmon can’t spawn. Are we going to have to blow up a few thousand wind turbines in a few years as well?
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Grib:
Very informative post. I have to admit that I was leaning toward Pickens when he first started stumping this on CNBC; maybe that should have been the first indicator. However, after I watched his video and he called for ‘government’ to mandate this the warning lights went off. Business being in collusion with government is fascism and this what Pickens will lead us to; does anyone remember the Federal Reserve Act?