Chris1

'Pickens Plan' Comes in the Nick of Time

It's typical energy "crisis" bonehead planning, similar to the Carter efforts in the 70's.

The reason energy isn't fairly priced is the level of government ownership worldwide. In particular oil. It could go for $5 or as of today $125, all kinds of complicated reasons for the range but at many levels wind power and many other "green fantasy" solutions are wiped out. So it's malinvestment on a vast and ultimately taxpayer level.

So what is the plan really? To lock up a fantasy high price and cost structure that sounds good to the leftist moonbats but will stick a generation with government and crony interests force feeding their wisdom on us instead of letting markets and individual interests decide. If they hadn't blocked oil production and other resources it wouldn't be this bad. Peak oil is myth supported only by the levels of extreme supply restrictions, third world confusion etc.

Government makes the crisis and then grabs for power to "solve" the problem. One small irony of course is that wind turbines will kill far more wild life than oil ever has. They are bird killing machines on a vast scale. That's how socialism works; good for special interests like Pickens and the cabal of "alternative energy" subside eaters but bad in most other objective ways. There is no objectivity in a socialist state of course.