โYou need a giant plan for America. Not the pissant 83 megawatt [windfarm] deals being stamped all over the country. There needs to be a huge plan from someone with leadership. It’s going to take years to do, but it has to startย now.โ
Al Gore? Nope. Too plain-spoken. This quote comes from oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens, an erstwhile Bush supporter who is bankrolling a Texas windfarm that will be five times bigger than the current world-recordย holder.
Is Pickens a sudden convert to what the denier community calls global warming โdogmaโ? Notย hardly.
โDon’t get the idea that I’ve turned green,โ Pickens recently told the Guardian in the Dallas offices of his new venture Mesa Power. โMy business is making money, and I think this is going to make a lot ofย money.โ
Gotta like capitalists withย vision.
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