T Boone Pickens
Just like the financial crisis has spawned a bunch of internet scams to “help you through it,” the energy crisis has been doing the same for years. That’s where T. Boone Pickens comes in.
Like Neville Chamberlain, who notoriously favored “appeasement” of Hitler, and let him grow before he tried to swallow all of Europe, Pickens is trying to con us that some cockamamie scheme is “Peace (or ‘energy independence’) in our time.”
Band-aid plans, and the blind acceptance that they will help us in the long run, only make the long run longer and harder. “Cover your ass,” is a poor substitute for, “Stand up and fight back.”
You’ll probably be reading more analogies to Neville Chamberlain, as there seems to be a fatalistic, “well, they’re coming anyway, might as well appease them” attitude among some who would like to frighten landowners for their own reasons.
T Boone Pickens is only trying to use us.
This is from CDOG:
A) His only agenda is his own profit – but he’s pretty damn slick at making it look otherwise, isn’t he? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70HFEHB6dag
B) The “Energy Plan” is his ticket to increasing demand for a dirty fuel that ruins lives everywhere it’s extracted, and in fact will NOT be used for energy independence. A great deal of it is slated for export. I’m talking about natural gas, or as we like to call it, UN-natural shale gas. The process of hydraulic fracturing, which pollutes vast amounts of precious water across the nation and leaves dead zones and sick people in its wake, is used to get natural gas out of tight shales. We need clean water, clean air, healthy cropland and healthy people much more than we need a few years’ worth of a dirty hydrocarbon fuel.
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Don’t let Pickens “aw, shucks” demeanor fool you. Remember what happened the last time someone fooled us with that?
