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    T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on Wind

    Dear T. Boone Pickens: What the Hell?
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    07/08/09

    In reply to T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on Wind
    Aaaand so T. Boone Pickens's wind power obsession was all... quixotic?
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    Image of Alaska Miller Alaska Miller
    07/08/09

    In reply to T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on Wind
    Hey, Pareene, this was a shoddy post. You should have hit on:


    1. Pickens Plans in Texas was about water rights: [www.treehugger.com]


    2. How GM is fucking him over and making him take delivery on $2 billion dollars worth of turbines.


    3. How he's going have to stick $2 billion worth of turbines all over the country.

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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    07/08/09

    In reply to T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on Wind
    I heard that the land Pickens intended to use for this project was overrun by barking spiders.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    07/08/09

    In reply to T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on Wind
    The problem with wind energy is that it can be silent but deadly.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    07/08/09

    In reply to T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on Wind
    This makes for a real ripper of a read.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    07/08/09

    In reply to T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on Wind
    He simply couldn't cut it.
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    Image of kneetoe kneetoe
    07/08/09

    @depardoo: You're a gas!
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    07/08/09

    @kneetoe:


    Cheese it!

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    Image of kneetoe kneetoe
    07/08/09

    In reply to T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on Wind
    I speak for the poors; my daddy worked his whole life at a wind mill.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/08/09

    @kneetoe: My daddy mined wind out of a wind seam in North Wales.
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    Image of Sleepyhead Sleepyhead
    07/08/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: My daddy worked the Santa Ana mines. Oh, the terrible wind burns that marked his destroyed body!
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    07/08/09

    @Sleepyhead: He came home every night not coughing. The doctors called it "perfectly healthy lung". He lived to be 105. Why is this terrible? Well he was as asshole alcoholic.


    I hate those mines.

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    07/08/09

    In reply to T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on Wind
    Pickens made a lot of money with oil


    He made even more green mailing money out of oil companies. His hostile bid on Unocal in the 80s caused that company to abandon most of its costly synthetic and renewable projects - programs to which the company had been dedicating research since the late 50s.


    When I hear T. Boone say the word

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    07/08/09

    @BadUncle: /damned wacom tablet.


    When i hear T. Boone pickens say the words "Energy Plan," that's when I reach for my revolver.

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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/08/09

    @BadUncle: ..."green," I reach for my lichen-covered Odin, Norse god of weather, club?
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/08/09

    @BadUncle: Oh, yours is better. I couldn't wait. *Sigh* I am always a bit premature when BadUnc is involved.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    07/08/09

    In reply to T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on Wind
    Dudes become billionaires by cashing checks, not writing them.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    07/08/09

    In reply to T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on Wind
    He's really passing on a great opportunity.
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    07/08/09

    In reply to T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on Wind
    This decision really represents letting go, doesn't it?
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    07/08/09

    In reply to T. Boone Pickens Gives Up on Wind
    He thought his plan would be a breeze, but turns out he was full of hot air. This blows.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/08/09

    @Aaron Altman: Or sucks.

    *makes raspberry sound*
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    07/08/09

    @BookishLookish: Or he had wind tunnel vision.
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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    07/08/09

    @BookishLookish: Or maybe he was never really a fan.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    07/08/09

    @Aaron Altman: Or maybe I love you with the power of a thousand suns.


    /solar power, baby!

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    Image of TriedandTrue TriedandTrue
    07/08/09

    @Aaron Altman: His plans went up in smoke. Turns out he was full of hot air, I guess
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    Image of Little Green Frog (Wise Latina) Little Green Frog (Wise Latina)
    07/08/09

    @Aaron Altman: It's all Gone With the Wind.
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