T. Boone Pickens: Where’s The Plan? Where’s The Plan?
At the end of the musical, “The Music Man”, Mayor Shinn asks “Where’s the Band? Where’s The Band”! It’s in response to Professor Harold Hill supposedly scamming the town folk into buying into a boys band that was not going to happen. There was a band though, albeit not a great one. But there was a band.
I had been hearing a lot about Pickens and his “plan”. So I got online last night to check it out. There are pages and pages of pictures and stuff, but I really saw no plan. As in, who do I send my money to? I mean if he’s generating electricity by wind power he must want to get paid! Yet, I saw none of that.
I think his energy plan mimics Enron’s right now!! LOL. I am sure that one day there will be plenty of wind turbines producing power in the Texas Panhandle. But I think old “T” is just blowing hot air right now. He wants us all to sign up so he can pressure Congress, the next President and the authorities in the local panhandle area to bow down to him and some of his wishes.
While the “plan” could be a great one, I think, right now it’s just some nebulous idea to provide us with a small amount of our energy needs in the future. And the future is what worries me. There is no timetable on this “plan”. There is no set design to this “plan”. There really is nothing to this “plan” yet.
I do believe these alternative energy plans are great. But we need some concrete evidence of what is going to happen, not some nebulous idea of what can happen.
