TT`s Lost in Tokyo : Pickens

More on Boone Pickens and power regulation in Texas: in which I test whether Rob Bradley/Master Resource is still blocking my posts

TokyoTom — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:44:00 GMT

Here`s Bradley`s post, A Texas-Sized Energy Problem: Republicans, Democrats, and ‘Baptists & Bootleggers’ Running Wild in the Lone Star State (Obama sends his thanks) . I left a short note wondering how Bradley could have made it through...(read more)

More on Pickens: FOX offers soapbox for Pickens mouthpiece; Milloy responds

TokyoTom — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:35:00 GMT

FOX offers soapbox for Pickens mouthpiece Warren Mitchell (former chairman of Southern California Gas Company and San Diego Gas & Electric, and director and head of the compensation committee of Pickens' owned Clean Energy Fuels); Steven Milloy...(read more)

Pickens, with "a mission" as a wind crusader, shakes John Kerry's hand

TokyoTom — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:09:00 GMT

More from the National Review 's "Planet Gore" corner . My reaction? While we do need investments in power transmission infrastructure , do it with your own money, T. Boone . While I, along with many others, could support a rebated carbon...(read more)

More carbon tax advocacy, this time from Jerry Taylor/Cato, in a piece criticizing Pickens' plan

TokyoTom — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:07:00 GMT

Jerry Taylor , a senior fellow at the Cato Institute , published a pithy criticism in last week's Financial Post of T. Boone Pickens' plan to get wind subsidies and other favors from Congress; said Taylor: "Virtually every claim made by T...(read more)

Bootleggers and Baptists in Texas and DC: Texas sells Pickens eminent domain powers and wind power transmission rights for his personal 8-acre "water district", while Sierra Club helps to push wind subsidies

TokyoTom — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:06:00 GMT

[Update: David Zetland at his Aquanomics blog has linked to my piece , astutely noting that if one applies Bruce Yandle `s "Bootleggers and Baptists" metaphor to Pickens' campaign for wind power and transmission subsidies, Pickens as Bootlegger...(read more)

T. Boone Pickens accelerates the tragedy of the Western water commons - by connecting thirsty markets to unowned, common-pool resources

TokyoTom — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:20:00 GMT

The latest Business W eek magazine sports the headline, "Is Water the New Oil?" and a caricature of T. Boone Pickens . The cover story -" There Will Be Water: T. Boone Pickens thinks water is the new oil—and he's betting $100...(read more)