{"id":194957,"date":"2008-08-06T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-06T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/06\/t-boone-pickens-and-windmills\/"},"modified":"2008-08-06T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-06T23:30:00","slug":"t-boone-pickens-and-windmills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/06\/t-boone-pickens-and-windmills\/","title":{"rendered":"T. Boone Pickens and Windmills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Endorsing wind sounds nice, but why is he saying, &#8220;use wind for electricity, and use natural gas for cars&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty simple.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2008_08\/014238.php\">Mr. &#8220;I funded the swift boaters in 2004&#8221; has extensive holding in natural gas<\/a>, including, &#8220;Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a natural gas fueling station company&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, if he gets to put up his wind farm, he will undoubtedly get lent to send the power to the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and he can also run a water pipeline, using the water rights that he purchased.<\/p>\n<p>Getting eminent domain for water is tough.  Getting for clean, safe, renewable wind power?  Not so hard.<\/p>\n<p>To paraphrase Abe Vigoda, &#8220;It was just business.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Endorsing wind sounds nice, but why is he saying, &#8220;use wind for electricity, and use natural gas for cars&#8221;? It&#8217;s pretty simple. Mr. &#8220;I funded the swift boaters in 2004&#8221; has extensive holding in natural gas, including, &#8220;Clean Energy Fuels Corp., a natural gas fueling station company&#8221;. Additionally, if he gets to put up his &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,1135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194957"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}