All
of the Everyday Citizen authors
are delighted you are here. We all hope that you come back often,
leave us comments, and become an active part of our community. Welcome!
All of our contributing authors
are credentialed by invitation only from the editor/publisher of
EverydayCitizen.com. If you are visiting and are interested in writing here, please feel
free to let us know.
For complete site policies, including privacy, see
our Frequently Asked
Questions. This site is designed,
maintained, and owned by its publisher, Everyday Citizen Media. EverydayCitizen.com,
The Everyday Citizen, everydaycitizens.com, and
Everyday Citizen are trademarked names.
Each of the authors here retain their own copyrights for
their original written works, original photographs and art works. Our
authors also welcome and encourage readers to copy,
reference or quote from the content of their blog postings, provided that the
content reprints include obvious author or website
attribution and/or links to their original postings, in accordance with
this website's Creative Commons
License.
Copyright,
2007-2011, All rights reserved, unless otherwise
specified, first by each the respective authors of each of their own
individual blogs and works, and then by the editor and publisher for
any
otherwise unreserved and all other content. Our editor primarily reviews blogs
for spelling, grammar, punctuation and formatting and is not liable or responsible for
the opinions expressed by individual authors. The opinions and accuracy of information in the individual blog posts on this site
are the sole responsibility of each of the individual authors.
Connect with us on Facebook!
Subscribe.
Follow us on Twitter!
Make us your home page!
Authors, sign in!
Comments (1)
T. Boone Pickens is only about wealth and profit. I do hope that the young people will not jump on his bandwagon. He is not AL Gore.
We know who he is. We need today to see him for what he is. He stands to pocket enormous amounts of taxpayer money (billions of our hard earned tax dollars) by erecting (and continuing to own) huge wind farms. The profits he makes will be in the form of tax abatements and taxfree development and funding and - gifts from the government. In other words, we will give T. Boone Pickens our money so that he will build himself a wind empire that will not decrease the cost of our energy.
He says that we currently use natural gas to produce 22% of our electricity. He says that harnessing the power of wind to generate electricity will give us the flexibility to shift natural gas away from electricity generation and put it to use as a transportation fuel — reducing our dependence on foreign oil by more than one-third.
What he's not telling you is that natural gas as a transportation fuel is not the direction of development.
What he's really not telling you is that he would not be interested in wind power if there wasn't billions of tax dollars in it for him to pocket. Come on people, be appropriately skeptical. Why is he waging this big Public Relations campaign? He wants to rake in tax dollars for his own profit.
T. Boone Pickens is NO Al Gore. Please be more wary and less impressionable. T. Boone Pickens is about profit from your pocket to his. That's all. Some very earnest and good people are being sucked in and are being taken for a ride.
You need to ask yourselves - if his plan makes sense - why is he wanting the taxpayers to give him billions of dollars to build his private enterprises?
Posted by Jerry Jacobs
|
July 30, 2008 5:16 PM
Posted on July 30, 2008 17:16