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Does T. Boone Pickens Have A Personal Agenda?
Many of us have started to see T. Boone Pickens new commercial touting wind power and the use of natural gas for cars. While I was spending some time researching what it is exactly that Mr. Pickens wants to do I came across several negative comments concerning his motives for pushing to use wind and natural gas to eliminate our dependence on foreign oil.Does Pickens have an agenda and are his motives completely self serving. Who cares? It does not matter. He is capable of doing things that very few people can. He has this capability because he has a great deal of money that he can work with. He has gambled on the people and government of the United States coming to their senses. He should be rewarded proportionately for the amount of risk he is taking.
We are the richest country in the world. The vast majority of our innovations were brought about because people were paid very handsomely for it. Henry Ford created the assembly line because it allowed him to make more money.
Did T. Boone Pickens just develop a wind farm in Texas. Yes he did. Does he also have huge natural gas reserves? Yes he does? Does he have a personal stake in the development of wind power and the use of natural gas. Absolutely?
The beautiful thing is that his agenda and the needs of the U.S. mesh very well together. If you listen to T. Boone Pickens he states that he is against anything involving the importation of foreign oil. He is for anything that utilizes US resources.
He is for nuclear power, he is for drilling now wherever and whenever we can and he is for the development of solar power. When we are at the mercy of foreign oil which we certainly are since we import almost 70% of our oil supply you must consider this to be a crisis. Everyone past the driving age realizes this.
It is in everyone's best interest that we eliminate the need for foreign oil. I hope he becomes the richest man in the world and makes as much money as is humanly possible as long as I can save as much money as possible. He wins, we win.
Ultimately I do feel that we should still push for electric cars, and hydrogen powered cars. Using natural gas is still utilizing a carbon based resource. We should eliminate this as much as possible. The best option is the use of electric cars where the electricity is obtained from wind powered, solar powered, or nuclear powered plants.
In the meantime while we are still developing the new technologies necessary to make this feasible we need to do everything that we can so that we do not send more money overseas. We need to do everything we can so that we are not at the whim of unstable, hostile governments in the Middle East.
This way when Iran threatens to cut the supply off at the Strait of Hormuz we can say, "Go for it." Now I realize that this is a global economy and we would still need to be concerned, we would not be facing a crippling immediate blow to our own economy.
Mr. Pickens would like to meet with both Presidential candidates simultaneously in an effort to limit the influence of partisan politics. I would hope that they would both agree and give great consideration to his plan.
In closing, go Boone go!
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