Curious Bedfellows
Politico's Jonathan Martin writes that Barack Obama today praised T. Boone Pickens, the right-wing Texas oilman who contributed millions in '04 to the effort to swift-boat John KerryJohn McCain." Here's Pickens' alternative energy plan.
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Posted by Jeffrey Wells on August 5, 2008 at 5:32 PM
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chappiesan says ...
As someone who was raised in west Texas, I don't believe praise is something T Boone Pickens deserves -- on his prior dealings on or on this one. Yeah, he's building giant wind farms in west Texas, but one of the major reasons he's doing so is to curry favor with the local governments so he can gain access to the Ogallala aquifer. He'll bottle up as much water as possible and sell it to the Dallas Metro area, most likely killing the nation's primary cotton cropland in the process (and not to mention the cropland through Oklahoma, Kansas, and areas northward that also rely on the aquifer). Consider this the Texas version of Owens Lake. Hopefully, the farmers will go after T Boone instead of the cosntruction guys he sends out.
http://www.citizen.org/cmep/Water/us/bulksales/texas/
Posted by chappiesan at August 5, 2008 8:30 PM
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D.Z. says ...
I'm not really sure how that counts as praise...
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