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Wednesday July 9, 2008

T. Boone Pickens, CEO of BP Capital, on the Future of Energy

“I believe my plan can be accomplished within 10 years if this country takes decisive and bold steps immediately. This plan dramatically reduces our dependence on foreign oil and lowers the cost of transportation. It invests in the heartland, creating thousands of new jobs. It substantially reduces America’s carbon footprint and uses existing, proven technology. It will be accomplished solely through private investment with no new consumer or corporate taxes or government regulation. It will build a bridge to the future, giving us the time to develop new technologies.”

Read the full article here

Politics, Technology, economics — Tags: , , — Viking Brian @ 8:02 am


8 Comments »

  1. According to wikipedia, this guy has donated 5 million dollars to republican causes, including 3 million dollars to the “Swift boat veterans for truth” fuckwads in 2004. He also is one of the champions of “privatized water resources.” Seriously, look at his career. To quote John Cusack, it’s like a demon’s resume.

    While i am happy solar and wind power may finally get some real investment, it’s really hard for me to get excited about a guy who has spent his entire life profiting from, and defending, the stranglehold the oil barons have on the world. If he had started this even 10 years ago, we would have been in so much better shape now.

    Comment by True — Wednesday July 9, 2008 @ 11:45 am

  2. you don’t think HE started investing in this shit 10 years ago?!

    Comment by Jade — Wednesday July 9, 2008 @ 11:49 am

  3. Well he may have been investing in it, but he’s certainly not been putting articles in the Wall Street Journal about it.

    It is certainly no coincidence that Bush is supporting “reducing Greenhouse Gases” at the G-8 a mere day or two before this article comes out.

    Notice how the GOP decides it’s good to care about greenhouse gases and alternative energy, so long as their puppeteers stand to benefit.

    Comment by True — Wednesday July 9, 2008 @ 11:56 am

  4. You aren’t going to find any angels in the halls of power. If we disregard all the solutions put forth by the people who could actually bring them into being we’re through. Don’t be fooled into thinking any of these shifts in resource allocation will demark an end to tyranny where we can all hold hand and share one anothers lollipops. The power brokers will remain and retain their thrones, but hopefully the rest of us will still be able to play outside without a gas mask and space suit on our days off.

    Comment by Viking Brian — Wednesday July 9, 2008 @ 12:14 pm

  5. brian: i agree. I’m not rejecting it, i’m just saying the hypocrisy is gruesome.

    Comment by True — Wednesday July 9, 2008 @ 1:02 pm

  6. i don’t really see him as so much hippie-critical as just a good old-fashioned money-loving business man who sees a whole new path to steer his industry toward.

    the other thing - and this probably won’t be as easily digested - it’s much easier for John Cusack (whose own reputation as a human is less than sterling) to say the guy’s resume makes him a “demon” than it is for him to understand that the decisions Pickens has made, or any other right wing socio-path for that matter (or left-wing (or no-wing)), have more than likely been based on a course of action he has come to understand as being “right” and “good” in his own mind. don’t misunderstand, i am clear that there are some straight up malicious fuckheads in the world, no doubt, but i think it does people and discussions very little service when people lump everyone not sharing their own ideological lifeboat into a group of “demons” or “evildoers”. while that shit can make for some enjoyable rhetoric and is great for half-time chalk talks, it does little to create empathy or to move a discussion forward towards a consensus.

    with all that said, i’m way more guilty of doing this than you or anybody else i know. :) like most things i’m talking to myself as much, if not more, than i’m talking to anybody else.

    Comment by Viking Brian — Wednesday July 9, 2008 @ 1:34 pm

  7. Brian:
    I think i was more making a joke with the demon reference than saying he was actually demonic. Although, that might make him cooler. (ha)

    I do not like the practice of demonizing people just because of disagreements either. In the case of politics, I often find it more enjoyable debating with conservatives who are actually conservative, rather than GOP or Dem Kool-Aid drinkers who don’t even know what their party stands for.

    I’ve often said that we cannot say we truly believe something until we’ve seriously considered we may be completely wrong.

    Comment by True — Wednesday July 9, 2008 @ 2:01 pm

  8. here’s some more links from Slashdot…

    http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/08/07/09/2246259.shtml

    Comment by Viking Brian — Thursday July 10, 2008 @ 10:48 am

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