Pickens Plan – Reducing our Dependence on Foreign Oil?
July 10, 2008
We should put this in the humor section. Windmills for cars? We saw a piece Sunday Morning with an interview on ex-oil man, T. Boone Pickens [clueless]. Apparently he thinks we are stupid. Does he think Katie Couric is stupid? His proposal is to have windmills replace oil imports… Our respose: Huh?
Windmills create electricity and so far no cars run on electricity only. Hybrids generate their own electricity so they wouldn’t use energy from his product anyway. In fact, the ones that do use only a battery can travel a very short distance. Imagine how much produce would cost for truckers to get across country with an electric engine that only gets 30-50 miles per charge! Besides, the food would spoil. But the blurb on his website reads, “How can we reduce our dependence on foreign oil?” The answer is DOMESTIC DRILLING, not wind turbines!
While we support alternative sources like wind and solar, it will not help lower gas prices or reduce our dependence on foreign oil as his promo promises. Right now coal and hydroelectric produce most of our electricity, not oil! And did you know that wind power is subsidized by the government because it costs more to produce than it earns in the market place? That’s our money, folks. Our taxes go to subsidize his business. How many of you get government grants to run your business? Look, if he’s a rich Texas oil man, let him use his own money, not money paid in taxes by POOR people!
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Nice writing style. I look forward to reading more in the future.