T. Boone Pickens: I’m Having More Problems Working With Drill-Only Republicans Than Democrats
T. Boone Pickens: I’m Having More Problems Working With Drill-Only Republicans Than Democrats
Today, Texas oil-tycoon-cum-alternative-energy-spokesman T. Boone Pickens spoke to the National Press Club about his “Pickens Plan” to ramp up production of wind power and the use of natural gas. Given his notorious past opposing progressives, the Press Club’s moderator asked him if he’s been having trouble working with Democrats to promote his plan. Pickens replied that he’s been having more trouble working with conservatives:
Q: you told the New York Times last month that you’d never vote for a Democrat. Are you finding that difficult in reaching out to Democrats then with your plan? [...]
PICKENS: So I am having no problem working with the Democrats. Having a little problem working with the Republicans. They don’t like it because I want to do more than just drill. And they, somehow have gotten it, a lot of them have, that you can drill your way out of this. But you can’t do it. There’s not enough oil there to do it.
Watch it:
Pickens made it clear that, despite five straight weeks of calls for an “all of the above” energy strategy, congressional conservatives are interested in little besides drilling. In fact, last week, when the House passed an energy bill that included conservatives’ demand for offshore drilling, House Republicans opposed it because it would have repealed Big Oil tax breaks to invest in renewable energy. Apparently to Republican ears, “all of the above” sounds just like “Drill Baby drill.”
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T. Boone Pickens: I’m Having More Problems Working With Drill-Only Republicans Than Democrats
– - Now there’s a shocker.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:06 pmThere’s only 2 things that republicans want today as I see it. They want everybody’s money for themselves and their friends and they want the right situation to arise so they can appease their Christian fundie base by initiating the rapture. I wish we could drill every republican straight into the ground and throw the fundies in to cover them up.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:11 pmHe knows who’s going to be in Washington come January.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:28 pmThe Republicans are in bed with the same country club grifters as they ever were. I am sure Boone has toasted them many a time and knows the standard moves under the sheets. The same group of sheep who gave us Bush are very close to giving us an ancient McCain paired with cartoon character.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:37 pmcountry club grifters. yep… all of them, or else they wouldn’t be Republicans. I loath these guys.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:57 pmCould it be that the big oil interests feel threatened by this “all of the above” approach because it threatens their ability to get all the energy money?
Think about it – what could threaten their record profits more than a solar panel, a windmill, and a natural gas line? If so, then of course they don’t want the likes of T. Boone Pickens pitching his “let’s-do-it-all approach.” And since the conservatives are obviously sleeping with the oil men (yech), it is not only “drill, baby, drill” it is “drill, only drill.”
Big oil is not content with their share of the energy pie – they want the whole pie.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:58 pmaw jeebus, loathe… anyhow, well put, Arctic Ghetto.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:02 pmKTP, I agree. Many of the shrewest business people do see how this election is going to turn out, and are trying to demonstrate right now that they will be willing to work with President Obama’s admin.
Everyone, keep your eyes open for Obama’s ads emerging on Thursday and Friday. I bet we see Keating, and with Rick Davis news that he was not only paid to lobby for Freddie/Fannie, but that he also pushed those “minority loans” that the GOPers are trying to blame for the entire financial mess.
These will be the mushroom clouds of political ads, all rolled out in time to put McStain in a highly defensive, and dare I say, highly angered, position for Friday’s debate.
Should be interesting!
PEACE
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:03 pmFace it Boone, this group of Repugnicants has disdain for the old power heads. James Baker’s firm did a study showing America could never be energy self sufficient in an oil based economy.
George W. Bush & Dick Cheney commissioned the study. I guess it’s buried in some super secret pile in the V.P.’s man sized safe.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:29 pmYou’ll pardon me if I don’t trust T-Boone Swift Boats.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:49 pmWhat? We need a massive ramp up of Renewable Energy? What kind of liberal hippie radical communist environazi wacko Greenpeace Green-Party Rachel Carson-loving nonsense talk is that??
Oh… T. Boone Pickens said it? Um…Oh. Sorry.
September 22nd, 2008 at 10:49 pmRepublicans routinely would rather have the issue than to have a bill so I don’t know why Pickens would be surprised in the least. This certainly comes as no news to me.
September 22nd, 2008 at 11:04 pmRepublican/Conservative ideology is the “threat” to human progress in the modern world.
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:36 amT. Boone Pickens is now a liberal…according to the mindless, brainless conservative talking point which stated Chuck Hagel was a liberal because he opposed the Iraq War…
September 23rd, 2008 at 2:53 amHow far has the Republican Party descended into the pit?
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:00 am