Applauding Pickens
Published: October 10, 2008
First, I want to congratulate you on your recent editorial condemning Congressman Terry Everett’s attack on U.S. Rep. John Murtha. I was astounded that you would criticize one of our Republican morons for anything.
However, your recent publication of C.F. Fischer’s criticism of T. Boone Pickens leads me to believe that you need to be more selective in printing these letters.
T. Boone Pickens has the answer to our energy crisis and his advice is being sought by both major presidential candidates.
When I think of John McCain, he reminds me of the old West Virginia expression, “even a blind boy will find an acorn now and then.” Well, John McCain has found his “acorn” in T. Boone Pickens.
If elected, I believe John McCain and Sarah Palin (if she’s not in an Alaskan prison) will put Mr. Boone’s brilliant energy plan into reality and eliminate the crisis that will surely destroy our great country if we continue on the present path.
Bob Messer
Abbeville
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Exactly. Pickens is a natural gas guy who stands to profit from the solution he proposes. Don’t fall for it.
Please, please, please, do not confuse T Boone Pickens for anything more than a profiteer cloaked in green and red, white and blue.
The Pickens Plan isn’t feasible and it was primarily designed to place your tax dollars directly into his pockets. To varify that, take a look at Prop 10 in California and what Europe, which has been using wind turbines for several years, has to say about wind power. Here’s a clue - even after all the turbines were erected they have been unable to shutter a single gas fired plant due to the natural ineffeciencies of wind power.
In addition, Pickens was the primary culprite behind the Great Energy Crisis of 2008. It was T Boone Pickens ‘Chicken Little’ dance about $150 a barrel oil and Peak Oil that caused the speculators and hedgers to boost oil to $149. Once it got there and people slowed down with $4 a gallon gas, the species and hedgers realized they had better get out pretty quick since there was aready a glut of oil before we stopped driving. So, August to October has seen a 45% oil futures slide. The ‘experts’ can say all they want about market principles and hold up their little BS graphs and charts. The problem is those are the same Wall Street geniuses that have put us in our current state.
And on with that subject, though the Wall Street slide is primarily due to the housing bubble, T Boone’s energy and oil prices helped precipitate our current problem as well.
So, when you get the urge to genuflect before T Boone, realize he’ll be right behind you picking your pocket all the way.
If there were ever a Wall Street/ CEO crook type placed in prison for an extended period of time with the general population, it should be T Boone.
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