14 Replies to “Y2Kyoto: How To Become A Millionaire Through Wind Energy”

  1. *
    local tv station interviewing a farmer who just hit the 10
    million dollar lottery number… “so, what are you going
    to do… now that you’ve got all this money”
    old guy responds… “oh, i’ll just keep on farming ’til
    it’s all gone.”
    *

  2. At least Pickens still has enough sense to see a money pit and avoid it. Unfortunately he doesn’t have the guts to admit the real reason for backing out

  3. Like the old joke: how do you make a small fortune in the airline industry?  Start with a large one.
    Garth

  4. Or alternately, as Indians near Melancthon Ontario are trying to do, wait until the local farmers put up the wind farm and then rush in and claim the land as your ancestral home.

  8. Saw a story about Big Al or Terminator Arnold being tagged as the “Climate Czar”. One thing’s for sure, if energy use is demonized, nobody – Pickens included – will need worry about paying capital gains tax…just a much higher income one.
    Welcome to the ‘Farm in the “Game of Life”. The Mansion’s become a bit harder to get to since it was moved by green power to the end of yonder rainbow.

  9. Mississauga Matt at 5:39 PM yah, I posted a comment about that a couple months ago
    just cracked me up when I was told about by one of the OLD locals up here :-))))

  10. Yup, pretty much follows the lead of all the European countries that have given up on wind farms. A bad idea knows no boundaries.

  11. T-bone owns the largest natural gas distribution network in the US. The wind farm was just a smokescreen to sell more natural gas. The proposed project wasn’t much different than a drilling program, which would also be less feasible with lower gas prices.
    Let’s be honest here, no 80 year old could get very excited about such a long term project. He saw a real possibility of a short term spike in gas prices if the windfarms got serious public funding. Remember, he was also lobbying for converting commercial vehicles to natural gas as a first step away from foreign oil. I really think he was playing everybody from the start.

  13. Tim: I like this quote from the article:
    “Mr. Fisher says there’s an issue with the historical accounts of Joseph Brant, who was a chief of the Six Nations but became a captain in the British army during the War of 1812.“
    Pretty impressive for someone who died in 1807.
    “Historically, he says, the Iroquois captured all of Ontario (Huronia) from the Hurons, and then agreed with the British to allow European settlement – but did not surrender any land.”
    Well, I guess the British captured all of Ontario from the Iroquois. Get over it.

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