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I really don't think it's appropriate you guys give this guy any free exposure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70HFEHB6dag


Really, please remove this post.

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Hope we hear something new tonight.I build biodiesel processors which turn waste vegetable oil into biodiesel.We need someone to help implement change. As the other poster said, we just need to keep moving in the right direction.

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I must agree with Arno.

Please remove this post and any support for T. Boone Pickens unless he is willing to separate his Wind farm initiatives from any other deals. He is using this as a way to add pork barrel, personal gain, water rights just like congress at its worst.

This is even worse though because he is hiding behind the green movement and it's all about personal gain! If he is serious about his green intentions then he will have no problem COMPLETELY eliminating his water ambitions from the equation.

Make him step up and show his true colors.

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Arno and John T, prove it. He lost 10% of his net worth from his hedge fund in the market just like the rest of us poor schmucks trying to save. Now, as for his quest for weening us off oil, I support him 100% even if it makes him richer than Bill Gates. Why don't you two get off your humps and do something.

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what is it with self-hating commies, that video linked by Arno is a piece of c##p, here is what it says condensed:

1. Boone is rich, thus he is evil
2. He has supported Bush, thus double evil
3. an oilman, triple evil
4. he is using a water pipeline to create a corridor for the power lines, the water pipeline stops legal and environmental roadblocks to the power lines.. because they are desperate for water down in Texas.. The corridors will serve double duty, carrying power and water down to Houston.

Flashy graphics, old cartoons, music and a cute chic cant hide the complete lack of logic in these arguments.. it is 98% emotion based.. very gay and not manly at all.

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You can not like the video all you want but the facts remain the same and can be acquired through many non-video sources as well. There's a lot of people pissed off at this guy and for good reason. He hides behind the green movement to try and get his agenda through and his investments into fruition. That's isn't something we need because at the end of the day it won't actually help the green movement or anybody else for that matter, except him, of course.

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Everybody should search the internet for a few articles about this, including these:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/151727

http://earthfirst.com/“blue-gold”-t-boone-pickens-and-the-privatization-of-water/

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It would be great if he attacked owners of pick ups and suv's, nothing seems to be getting through to these people? I'm so tired of all these runty losers and their gas guzzling me mobiles, who wet themselves at the thought of riding a bike or taking the bus, or giving to a charity. I cant wait for Obama to take power and watch their racist, selfish little world view crumble.

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"who wet themselves at the thought of riding a bike or taking the bus, or giving to a charity. I cant wait for Obama to take power and watch their racist, selfish little world view crumble."


What the hell are you talking about? Racist? Selfish? Huh????

You are an idiot.

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Ranting at people and calling them gay has nothing to do with this. Someone can disagree with you without being a "self hating commie".

There are lots of people who are going to get rich off green energy and I hope they get very rich, are very happy and provide lots of alternative energy for all of us. If Boone Pickens gets even richer off wind power then he'll be my hero.

But when he hides other schemes behind the banner of green that is a problem because it makes people not believe all of us when we say things.

If the water is needed in Houston or Dallas then that initiative should stand on it's own. It seems like quite a coincidence that this huge aquifer sits across the heart of the American Breadbasket. How do I know that it won't damage our ability to irrigate crops in the very area where we get most of our food? Why should I care more about people in Dallas getting water than people in Oklahoma City?

I was born in Houston and lived in Austin for a long time so I'm a Texan and do care about what happens there. But that doesn't mean it's necessarily right to support this plan. What else does it affect? Will it hurt midwestern farmers and impact food prices for all of us?

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I will not fool myself into believing that I know everything about Mr. Pickens or what his motives are. My instinct though tells me that he is potentially a dangerous man who people should be careful about, but I also think it is important to not jump to conclusions to quickly. For example I believe that natural gas is a cleaner fuel than crude oil, so if natural gas can help us get off of crude oil than that is a positive. I do not believe that there is a single solution that will solve the energy crisis so as much as I support electrified transportation I also understand that other technology can also move us in the right direction and a combination might be what is needed to complete the clean energy transformation.

On that subject I have created a social networking site for Zap's 3-wheel EV called Xebra: http://xebraplanet.ning.com/

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This man just seems fishy to me. To think that an oil man at age 80 just wants to turn into a philanthropist would be a stretch. There's extremes to everything, but I think he's trying to help others while also lining his own pockets. It's a win-win right?

I suggest you all watch that YouTube video the first commenter here posted above.

As a Californian I'm very suspicious of Pickins's ballot initiative 10 on next month's ballot. According to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T._Boone_Pickins#Attempt_to_sell_natural_gas_with_a_California_Ballot_Initiative) if it passes Pickins' own natural gas company will be the sole beneficiary. Know where natural gas often comes from? It's a by-product of drilling for oil and is a non-renewable fossil fuel. I just wonder how he got The Sierra Club to sign-on to his "Pickins Plan".

The official position of the California Green, Libertarian, and Republican parties is to vote NO on Prop 10, whereas the California Democrat party declares they're "neutral" on it.

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His motive is profit, best thing that could happen to the greens.

Domestic natural gas for cars instead of power generation is also a good thing... dont forget, NG spills will not kill marine life.. windmills are also a good thing..but useless without transmission lines.

The best good thing here is if he proves that windmills can be profitable then there will be a stampede to install more of them.

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Herm, what the hell are you talking about? So we should chose our strategy by the guy who acts the "manliest" and "least gay" and wears a red, white and blue lapel pin?

Why don't we get Chuck Lidell to do our strategy for us. He won some mixed martial arts championships and he's a real patriotic guy. Hell, let's vote for him for President! That will solve all our energy and economic problems.

You're an idiot.

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"wet themselves at the thought of riding a bike or taking the bus, or giving to a charity. I cant wait for Obama to take power"

Umm, check Obama's charitable giving record. He made $4 million last year and donated under $1k to charity. Twice what he reports giving in previous years. Pathetic.

As for T Boone - he's after gas sales. The wind portion of his plan is fine. But he wants car makers to build ICEs running on CNG. CNG is a fossil non-sustainable fuel that is produced exclusively by the petroleum industry. What is a REAL laugh is to see Sierra Club Pope get in bed with big oil like this. Hilarious!

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www.zeitgeist.com

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i have a car that runs on water. useing browns gas. nothing more. the us does not need oil at all. nobody cares. it is all a scam. take a look at a water torch. h2 is the answer to our future. it can easily be separated from 0. through electrolysis. a square d pulse modified wave. an internal combustion engine runs better on hydrogen than propane, and its free. + the by product is carbon dioxide. how clean is that? yes I have replicated stanley meyers work. herman anderson did this for nasa. usa has this technology. we just don,t use it. its all greed.

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watch zeitgeist the movie not www.zeitgeist.com

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