Energy
Fracking creates jobs
Republican legislators in North Carolina aren’t the only ones who see the potential job gains tied to increased energy exploration. Consider an article from the latest Bloomberg Businessweek. Mark Hiduke…
T. Boone Pickens
American financier; Chairman, BP Capital Management (1928-2019)
Energy
Another reason to probe the potential of fracking
The latest issue of Bloomberg Businessweek devotes four pages to the potential for natural gas to become a go-to source for motor vehicle fuel. The shale revolution, which in recent…
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T. Boone Pickens rejects wind power while NC Republicans continue to mandate it
T. Boone Pickens has released his new energy plan and this time it doesn’t include spending on wind power. According to Roll Call, “With wind energy projects not proving as…
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Next time, Pickens, consult Claes
If one is going to dot the landscape with fantastically-proportioned objects, take a lesson from modern sculptor (and actually one of my favorites) Claes Oldenburg ?make sure your gigantic object…
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T. Boone (Pocket) Pickens: king of the energy corporate welfare queens
(Cross posted from EnvironmentNC.com) This article by Paul Driessen with the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) spells out why T. Boone Pickens? energy scheme won?t work for the country, but…
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Stossel nails it on on the nonsense of energy independence
In this article from RealPolitic.com John Stossel gets it exactly right on this ridiculous push for “energy independence.” I particularly like his dissmisal of this truly silly idea that somehow…
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What’s wrong with T.Boone’s plan?
Well, it really isn’t a plan at all, argues Holman Jenkins in today’s Wall Street Journal. Read his piece here. “Talk is cheap. Talk favors radical solutions to get rid…
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T. Boone needs your help (cross posted from EnvironmentNC.com)
T. Boone Pickens, former oil tycoon and present day rent seeker* and political entrepreneur says in a commercial for his energy plan ?it will work, but we need your help.?…
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Re: Breaking the wind etc.
Mitch, what makes the wind-power white elephant extra useless and inefficient for North Carolina is something Daren’s report made explicit, but that is also implicit in T. Boone Pickens’ “altruistic”…
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Everyone knows it?s windy
As T. Boone Pickens pushes for more taxpayer funding of inefficient wind power, he explains to Newsweek that any new wind-power operations will have to bypass his ranch: “There are…