Did anyone hear T. Boone Pickens discuss this California...

[YvonneCa]

...proposition on Larry King tonight?

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-oe-rubenstein29-2008jul29,0,2346782.story

[babylonsister]

1. Why should I?

:hi:

[YvonneCa]

4. I didn't see the entire interview...

...with Pickens. The part I DID see, seemed that he was being praised by all for what he is doing. I don't know if this California thing came up.

[bananas]

2. Wow - thanks

This sounds like bad news:

Pickens is selling Proposition 10 to green-minded, high-gas-price-paying Californians under the official name of "The California Renewable Energy and Clean Alternative Fuel Act." If the name rings a bell, that's because it's intentionally similar to the "California Clean Alternative Energy Act" of 2006, also known as Proposition 87. Proposition 87's rebates and incentives would have been funded by fees on the oil industry for petroleum extracted in California, not by taxpayers.

Proposition 87 lost after the oil industry spent more than $100 million campaigning against it. I was the founder and chairman of Californians for Clean Energy, the force behind Proposition 87, and am disgusted that Pickens' lawyers and natural gas sales team have lifted Proposition 87's language and twisted it into such a deceptive, counterproductive initiative.

[YvonneCa]

5. Yes. I wouldn't trust the guy...

...any further than I could throw him. :) He is the guy who supported SBVT against Kerry in 2004...and anyone who could do that is despicable, IMO.

[Nikki Stone1]

10. Is there a link for more information about the Proposition?

Thanks.

[bananas]

11. UCAN has a couple of articles

UCAN is a good organization.
http://www.ucan.org/gasoline_autos/gas_prices/referendum_process_subverted_wealthy_energy_moguls
http://www.ucan.org/gasoline_autos/gas_prices/billionaire_oilman_wants_nation_embrace_wind_and_natural_gas_alternatives

[Nikki Stone1]

12. Thank you!

I appreciate the links.

[Gabi Hayes]

3. thanks...what a crook. lying sac if there ever was one....remember,

he was a major funder of the Swiftboaters, and reneged on his million dollar offer to find any misstatements in the ads.

http://firedoglake.com/2007/11/16/john-kerry-to-swift-boat-funder-t-boone-pickens-wheres-my-million-dollars/

don't ever believe a word this prick says about anything

[YvonneCa]

6. I know. What I don't understand is why...

...suddenly...he is being put out there as this leader, to save our national security from the perils of big oil.

We have better leaders to follow, listen to, and believe than T. Boone.

[CK_John]

7. T Boone is out to corner the market in windpower. Like all wheeler dealers the payoff is not in the

production of electric power (just pays for the overhead) but the selling of carbon reduction vouchers to other polluters.

[YvonneCa]

9. Makes sense...

...as to my $$$$ theory. :)

[lonestarnot]

8. T Bone should just go pick his nose, maybe he'll pick a winner.

:puke: