MALKIN: Big wind Boone-doggle

In the old days wasn't this called salting the mine? Our top national security issue is energy independence and it is required NOW, not 40 or 50 years from now when the development is optimized and the infrastructure is in place. It took over 100 years to build and optimize the current carbon based system and bring it to a state of stability. Why because the public bought it, NOT the government forcing it. Remember biofuels? That was a case of the government forcing it. They had no more idea of the complexity associated with the impact of their decision than Al Gore in his predictions of disaster caused by global warming which evolved to climate change because we are in cooling phase. Whether or not Pelosi knows it, Putin and Jintao really don't care about climate change. It's time to vote these guys out of Congress before reality destroys whatever freedoms we have left.

The speaker has a clear conflict of interest,does anyone care?I do,these bums need to be sent home.

Pelosi is an outrage. How can this wicked witch of the west from sanctuary city environs get away with blatantly endangering America's economy and national security in order to line her own pockets. This is beyond contempt. Let's see ABC, CBS NBC and the N.Y. Times run with this one (but don't hold your breath). The rank and file Demorats need to take action before she takes them all down.

Pelosi is going to waste time and money as long as she is in office, the unfortunate thing is that the voters in her district will never vote her out of office.

The cost of wind?! How about the cost of our oil dependence! We spend $700 billion annually on big oil! All of that money goes to a rouges gallery of foreign dictators, including those of Saudi Arabia and Venezuela! If we keep importing oil from foreign powers it will cost us over $7 trillion in the next 10 years. Pickens Plan costs a comparatively small $1.2 trillion over 10 years to meet the same demand of our power concerns. And as any geologist will tell you we would see no returns from domestic oil drilling for more than 8 years. And even then the results would be so negligible that it wouldn't be worth it! Mr. Pickens has made the plan and done his homework. I suggest Malkin do the same thing!

Could it be that OPEC and other foreign oil interests are really behind efforts to undermine our confidence in the PickensPlan approach to reducing foreign oil imports? Over recent days, there has been an increase in the number of unfounded, somewhat devious contentions about Boone and the overall plan – starting with the outrageous claim that Boone and Nancy Pelosi are engaging in some kind of conspiracy, that our lights will go out if the wind stops blowing, etc. None of those things are accurate – or even real relevant to the overall goal of reducing foreign oil imports. It certainly appears to be a somewhat organized effort, a group of people or interests who would benefit from seeing the Pickens Plan sidetracked before the election. I have a message for them, however. Progress on the Pickens Plan won’t be halted – by anyone, for any reason. Boone Pickens won’t let it happen. I (and more than 200,000 Americans who are supporting it) won’t let it happen, either. We’re committed to success and putting our nation on a positive course of reduced reliance on foreign oil.

Sure, follow the money. So where do you think the billions of dollars we are spending each year on foreign oil are going? You can follow that oil right across the globe to the Middle East, Malkin (and stay, as far as I'm concerned) Of course Boone is out to make money -- isn't that a defining factor of success in a business proposition? At least his proposition is going to give Americans the power they need from domestic (not to mention much cleaner) sources, instead of shipping billions out of the country every year. So if you have a better way to wean our country off of foreign oil, would you care to enlighten the crowd? And all of the sudden you care about the "thousands of sliced up birds" ? I have never known you to be an advocate for preserving wild species, until of course you can use it as the most trivial setback of wind turbines and blow it grossly out of proportion. By the way, cell phone towers kill more birds than wind turbines (even in countries that have tons of wind farms). Why don't you just join the Audubon Society and start a crusade against AT&T? It seems like it'd be a better way to spend your time than writing bologne articles that aren't based on the whole truth.

Malkin clearly wrote this article based on a personal rant instead of based on facts. So, you think the dozens of countries that use wind power as a main source of power qualify as "La La land?" (Ever heard of Denmark, Germany, Spain, Italy, France, for example?) Lets not forget the big picture here: In our country, we are facing an enormous energy crisis. It needs to be solved. T Boone Pickens is providing some long-needed leadership on the problem. Part of his leadership, yes, is the money that he is putting into the project (and of course he expects to profit off of this! As he should). Finally, someone is taking the plunge, putting themselves on the line in the name of getting America off foreign oil, and all Malkin can do is attack him with inaccurate accusations?

Birds of a feather flock together. Nancy and Al both hope to pocket millions of dollars in environmental scams while the rest of us have to pay dearly at the pump and to the tax man. Both will do anything they can think of to fatten their bank accounts even if it means hurting our country. She's saving the world alright. Her plan is to tax people to death so they quit leaving an environmental footprint.

Did Malkin ever put two words together that didn't blow something up? Pickens is a billionaire whose created jobs and wealth for thousands. He sees clearly that 70% of all the oil money is going overseas and is a danger to our long term economic health and I would add has been funding the very terrorists we're now fighting. Most of Congress + the Pres. and VP have enormous assets in oil amongst other investments and seperating that is nearly impossible. How convient Malkin wants to follow only the one money trail she has a grudge against. What a vicious hag.

Message to kc. The President, V.P. and the majority of congress are not the ones blocking a vote. Pelosi is. I'm sorry you called Michelle a hag. She is avery intelligent and astute lady who should be thanked for raising this issue. Was it my "wicked witch of the west" term for Pelosi that set you off? Also if you had gotten at least a D in reading comprehension, you would have noticed Michelle's article was not really critical of Mr. Pickens. Just Pelosi. Got it?

My expertise is in the energy and environmental fields and I think you are right about wind power being a boondoggle. It is probably that if you and I were not paying for them with tax dollars, they would not be built. Wind turbines turned out to be the worst case power source environmentally, in my opinion. Wind turbines may be the worst case economically also, although solar may edge it out and biomass fuels, the field of my Ph.D., is probably next. They have never been economically feasible and since we learned how little of the time they actually turn in practice, they may not be technically feasible. If either is true, no one would build them unless paid to.