Curmudgeon for Change

We don’t normally write about people on Beanstockd if they could have legally bought us beer when we were in middle school, and this guy, T. Boone Pickens, could have bought our dads beer when they were in middle school. Pickens is 80. He’s worth $4 Billion. He made his fortune in the oil business.

And he wants us to shift to wind power. Big. He says we’re running out of oil and we’re all screwed if we don’t cut the crap with the black stuff. Repeat: this is an oil man.

This guy is no long-haired hippy freak. He played basketball at Texas A&M before there even were hippies! He says that alternative energy isn’t going to come along soon enough to completely eliminate fossil fuels. So, he wants us to buy time by building more windfarms up and down the Midwest to run homes and businesses and use the natural gas we save to run our cars and trucks. Could it work?

Well, did you know the USA has more wind than almost anyone else? Check it out. Pickens has made a retro video about his plan. He just uses a white board rather than a Power Point, like Al Gore, ‘cuz, y’know… he’s an old guy. They’re bad with computers.

BradyDale

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