Monday, May 19, 2008

T-Bone Pickins

T-Bone Pickins, an oil billionaire, was just on CNN promoting what would be the world's largest wind farm, to be built by him using his own money, in Texas. Good Ole T-Bone said - among other things - that Saudi Arabia was already pumping as much oil as they can(so don't blame them), and that we(the United States) didn't much much oil left.

Several red flags starting flying immediately:
Red flag #1: T-bone has made his fortune with oil... he has a vested interest in keeping oil scarce and expensive.

Red flag #2: The Saudi big wigs told us just last week they were pumping enough to supply the present demand, and they denied Bush's plea to pump more(which they easily can) to ease up on the prices
Remember that? Bush just went over to Saudi Arabia to literally beg them to increase output(which everybody knows they can), except for maybe oil billionaire T-bone Pickins.
Red flag #3: Just two days ago CNN reported that the United states had enough oil - right now, today - to provide energy for 100 million homes and 160 million cars for SIXTY years.
That does not include the billions of barrels available in our shale oil deposits.
Red flag #4: Wind generators are expensive and very high maintenance. Like ethanol, it takes a hell of a lot of money and effort - a steady flow of both - to get a single kilowatt out of a wind farm.

Red flag #5: T-Bone claims he will build this wind farm with his own money. If you believe that, you don't need to be reading any of this.

Red flag #6: He wants to build it in Texas, where's there's lots of high winds. Well, hell yes, lots of tornadoes also.
That's like building your house in a flood plain... you're gonna get hit... and insurance companies won't touch you.

This CNN "program" with T-Bone was so full of bull sh*t it was hard to watch, but I hope these six red flags will get you to start thinking about all this con-artistry the big boys are - and will be - trying to get away with during this energy crisis, all of which will cost us dearly and make them a lot richer... and won't solve a single problem.

How the hell will a wind farm help with the gas problem? TODAY? We would need to get rid of every gas-guzzler and diesel semi-truck rig on the highways today and convert to electric vehicles and hybrids to use any of this wind generated electrical energy. How long - and how much money - would that require?

How the hell will a wind farm help with the heating oil problem in the east? TODAY? Every home using heating oil today would have to rip out their present heating system, replace it with an all-electric one, and then, the power companies would have to run miles and miles of new power lines to handle the load. How long - and how much money - would that require?

T-bone is just looking for another way to make another billion or so. There must be a lot of CNN bigwigs that own stock in Pickins companies.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Why don't we just go ahead and rely on Bioheat. At least for oilheat users. Working for NORA I have come across so many sites talking about the increase in price and devastation oil is causing. Many users are being left without oil, trying not to freeze over. Bioheat can help us conserve 400 Million gallons of oil. If we can conserve that much, just imagine the possibilities. Check this out: www.oilheatamerica.com/index.mv?screen=bioheat

That's where I got my info from.

The General said...

Nice Post. If Wind were a solution to our ELECTRICAL energy needs then we would already be using it. If wind is more expensive then, say, nuclear or coal, then why would we all switch to hybrid cars? So we can pay higher electrical bills? If still haven't switched to electric cars when electrical energy prices are still relatively low, why would we switch when we convert to wind or solar?

Ultimately, I think Nuclear electrical power and hydrogen/electric stacks will be the energy solutions of choice, but that doesn't help our current situation.

Only oil can help us now.