Still more thoughts on T Boone's idea
I'm a bit intrigued by something over the past few days.
Very few people are talking about it. T. Boone is talking about it. a lot. the guy is everywhere. on all the stations. but i haven't heard any commentary, real commentary on it. obama, mccain, and all the other politicians are all silent.
crickets.
even the radio folks seem to be silent.
it may be that i just haven't been listening well.
but the most interesting thing about this, aside from a business man fronting the money, time, resources into almost single handedly turning the us toward a new energy in a significant way, is that it is as if no one knows what to do about it.
no one really knows if T Boone is right. or wrong. or how right and how wrong.
am i missing something?
Isn't this the kind of thing environmentalists have been talking about?
Isn't this an answer to both the right and the left?
I'm guessing the "wind lobby" isn't too strong, (again i could be wrong) so the presidential candidates may be left wondering if they should support it or not.
i'm certain that people will find holes in it soon. probably in the next couple days.
we'll see the people really interested in getting us off foreign oil, and those intrested in oil. there will be naysayers etc.
but right now, it's as if the world doesn't know what it should believe about this idea....
to me... that's fascinating.
Very few people are talking about it. T. Boone is talking about it. a lot. the guy is everywhere. on all the stations. but i haven't heard any commentary, real commentary on it. obama, mccain, and all the other politicians are all silent.
crickets.
even the radio folks seem to be silent.
it may be that i just haven't been listening well.
but the most interesting thing about this, aside from a business man fronting the money, time, resources into almost single handedly turning the us toward a new energy in a significant way, is that it is as if no one knows what to do about it.
no one really knows if T Boone is right. or wrong. or how right and how wrong.
am i missing something?
Isn't this the kind of thing environmentalists have been talking about?
Isn't this an answer to both the right and the left?
I'm guessing the "wind lobby" isn't too strong, (again i could be wrong) so the presidential candidates may be left wondering if they should support it or not.
i'm certain that people will find holes in it soon. probably in the next couple days.
we'll see the people really interested in getting us off foreign oil, and those intrested in oil. there will be naysayers etc.
but right now, it's as if the world doesn't know what it should believe about this idea....
to me... that's fascinating.
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posted by mark at
9:43 PM
2 Comments:
If the substance of Mr. Pickens' proposal is largely as I have heard it on his radio commercials (I have yet to look at anything else on it), it may be that the reason you think you're hearing crickets is that you're looking for Mr. Pickens' name,as there has been plenty of commentary on alternative power development, including wind power. Some positive, some negative. It may just be that people haven't yet dealt with Mr. Pickens' specific proposal because they feel the subject in general has been adequately addressed.
Personally, while I will concede that is possible that there is a finite supply of fossil fuels and that wisdom would therefore show itself by continuing to develop alternative power sources, I would have to say that in the short term--"short term" being a good fifty years or so, if we exploit known resources, and possibly much longer if we adequately develop coal gasification technologies--I favor expanded domestic drilling.
I do like the wind energy idea. One thing his wind chart didn't show is the availability of stable winds off of the continent, in the ocean. They're already trying that on some of the coasts with success.
Another thing I like about it is that it's the only plan being presented that doesn't consist of drilling more oil, domestically or by opening up the continental shelf or arctic drilling. Neither of those solutions would reduce our dependency on oil...just foreign oil. Reducing our altogether dependence on oil is I think the larger goal.
Wind is cheap and free. And yes, TBP does stand to profit a lot from this, but I guess if he's the only one willing to put up the cash to install the infrastructure he deserves to make it (but should not give any more of it to OSU).
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