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I know, I know
T. Boone Pickens has made more money in a lifetime than I’ll ever
make in 100 lifetimes but just because he can make money in oil or, now,
tilting at windmills, doesn’t mean this is the right way to help our
long-term energy problems. Boone, gets on the television and tells us he
can cut fossil-fuel use by 20 percent, if only we install windmills for
energy production freeing up natural gas being used now for other energy
uses. Boone’s after one thing: M-O-N-E-Y!
You have all
heard about how Denmark uses windmills on its western half of the
country for energy. Well, my friends, Denmark has halted production of
any more windmills for energy because it is unreliable and expensive.
But ask Boone
yourself. The big uproar over whether to drill in ANWR in Alaska is the
"scar" that will be left in the pristine wilderness. While
this has been outed as a hoax which to this day many people on the Left
refuse to acquiesce, they are perfectly happy to "scar" the
Great Plains and most of the mountain states with miles upon miles of
windmills. It will take hundreds of thousands of square miles to place
enough windmills on-line to support a new electricity grid which is
better suited to handling electricity from windmills than the grid we
currently are using.
When asked if
Boone would inundate his some 600 acre property in Texas with windmills
he was reported as saying, "Never do it. Those things are
ugly." The only reason Boone wants to foist this upon the American
public is that there is big money to be made in investing in wind power.
Why? Because states like Colorado have mandated that certain percentages
of their energy must come from wind, solar, etc. and that the government
will subsidize such mandates. If put on the open market these alternate
energy sources would never be able to compete.
Finally, since
most of the energy use takes place on both coasts, doesn’t it make
sense that the logistics of getting windmill energy to them would be
costly. Boone knows though, that if the government is going to subsidize
such nonsense, he’s going to cash in. It’s that simple.
Godspeed and God please help
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