In his commercials, T. Boone Pickens seems minted in Hollywood. He is the grizzled oilman who sagely tells the public that we can't drill our way out of this problem.
Wind power is part of the answer to the total energy picture, he said.
But here is what he told Newsweek about wind power: "There are no turbines on my ranch, because I think they are ugly."
Add Pickens to that list of hypocrites - notably Walter Cronkite and the Kennedy family (Robert Kennedy Jr. is a major global warming alarmist) - who tell us we need alternative energy while opposing the installation of wind turbines near them.
If the world were in serious trouble, Pickens, Cronkite and the Kennedys would put windmills in their back yards.
But they know it is all snake oil, and they peddle it while luxuriating in their air-conditioned second and third homes along the beach. The only wind power they want is for their sailboats.
Al Gore continues to use 10 times the amount of energy his neighbors do at just one of his three homes, even as he tells us we must end the use of carbon-based fuel in 10 years.
Gore gallivants around the world leaving a carbon footprint the size of Poca everywhere he lands.
He sets such a wonderful example that I am thinking of following his lead by trading my Mustang in for a Hummer.
Obviously we are not producing enough carbon dioxide to sustain life on this planet. Carbon dioxide is a key to the photosynthesis process from which the food change is founded.
A few of us are rooting for the greenhouse effect.
History shows that times of warmth on Planet Earth are times when civilizations are established and flourished.
Times when the planet cools are referred to as the Dark Ages and the Ice Age.
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