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The Pickens Plan
« on: August 25, 2008, 10:08:38 PM »

What do you make of this?

My opinion:
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Re: The Pickens Plan
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2008, 03:34:31 AM »

When people see a general problem or hole to fill they have 2 questions. How can I solve the problem and how can I make money doing it? Of course Pickens wants to make money. Take that out of the equation.

Wind is a great natural source of power. I can attest that here in Texas there is a lot of it. If, and that's a big if, the infrastructure and automakers agree to the natural gas thing I can see it making a dent. But those entities have to buy in and natural gas stations need to spring up or however you get it. It would be neat if you have gas at home you could just fill up your car there.
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« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2008, 05:32:28 AM »

I'm all for it.  It has holes the size of Texas, but the important thing is that it proposes capturing energy from a completely renewable resource.
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Re: The Pickens Plan
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2008, 07:11:18 AM »

T Boone Pickens needs to start a new company, sell stock to investors, and fund his plan the way capitalists have for several hundred years....

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Re: The Pickens Plan
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2008, 07:24:30 AM »

T Boone Pickens needs to start a new company, sell stock to investors, and fund his plan the way capitalists have for several hundred years....

Just two days off the Beijing Olympics and you start spouting that Free Market West bull*feces*.   Sad

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« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2008, 08:23:12 AM »

T Boone Pickens needs to start a new company, sell stock to investors, and fund his plan the way capitalists have for several hundred years....

I'll take this one step further. Is there any real difference between having your power supplied by a highly-regulated monopoly called "ConEd" vs. a monopoly called the "US Gubmint"? Why stop at having the gubmint simply fund the development of the core technologies and build-out of the infrastructure? I think one can argue that energy is vital enough a component of national security that nationaliz(s)ation of "public" utilities should be considered. At the very least have the state gubmints run them.
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« Reply #6 on: August 26, 2008, 08:29:30 AM »

privatize the profits, socialize the losses.
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