How T. Boone Pickens’ Energy Plan Just Got Killed

The financial bailout bill passed by Congress may have once and for all put an end to T. Boone Pickens’ energy plan. Let me explain.

Until the financial meltdown obliterated all other news coverage, T. Boone and his energy plan were everywhere. His book, The First Billion Is the Hardest, is number two on the bestseller list. During the Republican and Democrat Conventions his press conferences were attended by a fawning media, virtually all of who filed stories with the theme "oil man turns wind energy advocate."

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How T. Boone Pickens’ Energy Plan Just Got Killed

Date: 9 Oct 2008 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

How T. Boone Pickens’ Energy Plan Just Got Killed The new bailout plan passed by Congress may have put the nail in the coffin on Pickens’ dangerous energy proposal. By David Morris, originally published in Alternet, October 9, 2008 The financial bailout bill passed by Congress may have once and for all put an end to … Read More

Palin’s Self-Reliant Image of Alaska Is Bogus

Date: 15 Sep 2008 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Palin’s Self-Reliant Image of Alaska Is Bogus By David Morris, originally published in Alternet, September 15, 2008 In her latest comment on the “Bridge to Nowhere” controversy, Sarah Palin appealed to the self-reliant, individualist, rugged, anti-government image most Americans have of Alaska. “If we wanted a bridge,” she declared, “we would build it ourselves.” Actually, much … Read More

T. Boone talks a lot about wind, but gas is what he’s really about

Date: 12 Sep 2008 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

T. Boone talks a lot about wind, but gas is what he’s really about By David Morris, originally published in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, September 12, 2008 T. Boone Pickens visited St. Paul during the Republican Convention for the same reason he visited Denver during the Democratic Convention —to peddle his energy plan. In both … Read More

Republicans Have Handed Democrats a Winning Election Issue

Date: 20 Aug 2008 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

The Republicans keep handing the Democrats a winning election issue. And the Democrats keeping refusing to accept the gift. I hope the beginning of the formal election campaign knocks some sense into them.

Thegift is the Republicans’ continued opposition to extending renewable energy incentives. Eight times since the fall of 2007, a Republican-threatened filibuster has thwarted a vote on extending these incentives. They will expire at the end of this year — and with that expiration, many believe the solar and wind industries will come to a grinding halt.

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Republicans Have Handed Democrats a Winning Election Issue

Date: 20 Aug 2008 | posted in: From the Desk of David Morris, The Public Good | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

Republicans Have Handed Democrats a Winning Election Issue By David Morris, originally published in Alternet, August 20, 2008 The Republicans keep handing the Democrats a winning election issue. And the Democrats keeping refusing to accept the gift. I hope the beginning of the formal election campaign knocks some sense into them. The gift is the Republicans’ … Read More

Electric Cars Are the Key to Energy Independence

Al Gore’s heroic speech challenging us to make our electrical system 100 percent renewable promised it would simultaneously address three major crises: the weak economy, catastrophic climate change and the dire national security problems inherent in our dependence on imported oil.

He got two out of three right. A crash renewable electricity initiative would provide an immediate boost to our economy and could slow climate change, since electricity accounts for about a third of our overall greenhouse gas emissions.

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Electric Cars Are the Key to Energy Independence

Date: 6 Aug 2008 | posted in: Energy, Energy Self Reliant States | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

ILSR vice president, David Morris, responds to Al Gore’s recent speech proposing a 10 year effort to move the United States to a 100% renewable energy electric system to address three major crises: the weak economy, catastrophic climate change and the dire national security problems inherent in our dependence on imported oil. Morris says that Gore got got two out of three right.… Read More

Report: Rural Power – Community-Scaled Renewable Energy and Rural Economic Development

Date: 5 Aug 2008 | posted in: agriculture, Energy, environment | 0 Facebooktwitterredditmail

This August 2008 report by David Morris and John Farrell was sponsored by the Ford Foundation. The next 20 years could generate as much as $1 trillion in new renewable energy investment in rural America. The report is a policy roadmap for states and the federal government that would redesignpolicies to encourage a highly decentralized and dispersed renewable energy industry that is significantly locally owned. Doing so would multiply the number of rural areas that benefit from burgeoning renewable energy industries, and would create a sustainable asset whose wealth and revenue will largely remain in revived local communities and regions.

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