Comments on: Pickens Set on Turning Texas into Saudi Arabia of Wind

By: Lee Solomon

Lee Solomon — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:58:58 +0000

Why, whenever someone has a business plan, do people question their motives? Does anyone question Toyota’s decision to build hybrid cars? Don’t they do that so they can make money? Is it that we activists are so used to calling corporate america to task that we still question their motives even when they’re doing the right thing? If a well-known environmentalist were promoting in and investing in wind power, would be people be questioning his motives? Can we please just get back to a culture of innovation and reward for risk? We need a solution now and questioning motives is just a bunch of noise that distracts you from being productive.

By: Phil Berry

Phil Berry — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:23:59 +0000

You should be ashamed of your lack of journalistic integrity. In the first THREE months of 2008, ExxonMobil plowed nearly $9 billion into stock buy-backs – to make even fewer even richer. This article uses snipes by the Cato Institute at a mere $2 billion investment in wind power. If you are going to use the bastion of far right economics (or far left) to slam anything – you should at least explain who they are and for whom they work. I support T. Boone’s call for more – we need $200 billion not $2 billion.

By: Capitalist Tree Hugger

Capitalist Tree Hugger — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:45:28 +0000

Gee. I invested in companies developing renewable energy sources. I expect to make money. Did I do something wrong?

By: Jeff M

Jeff M — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:47:14 +0000

Who the heck cares if he can make a (sorry for the bad word) profit? Ya know what, let’s just let only people who have little money do all of the environmental improvements! What’s that you say? They don’t have the money to invest? Then the heck with the environment, we”ll just wait until they get the money. We would not want to help T. Boone get richer, even if it does help us reduce our dependence on oil. I’m sure that the middle east oil producers would agree whole heartedly with that thought process. Anybody got an extra $2 billion I can borrow?

By: Amanda Cravotta

Amanda Cravotta — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:33:11 +0000

Oh PLEASE – I don’t care if the man makes billions – at least it’s clean!!!!! How about using that time/money/energy spent criticizing and do something constructive. Each of us needs to get off our indivudual rear ends and take at least one step in a new direction. Stop griping about what the next guy is doing and start making the world a better place.