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Oil Billionaire Building World's Largest Wind Farm
gadzook33 writes "CNN is reporting that oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens is planning to invest billions of dollars in what will probably be the world's largest wind farm. It will eventually generate 4 gigawatts, enough to power 1.3 million homes. The first 600 GE wind turbines are scheduled for delivery in 2010. Pickens says that each turbine will generate about $20,000 in income annually for the landowner who hosts it."
> ...small dent in the oil companies' massive record profits....
/. aren't exactly what I'd call educated folk.... especially the ones who have a piece of paper..... and logical reasoning is so 19th Century. But try reading some actual facts before you open yer piehole and repeating drivel stuffed into your head by bad people pushing an anti-human agenda.
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First, go and compare the profit margin of the oil companies to other large industries. Their profit margins are pretty much in line with those other heavily capitalized industries. Their profits are puny compared to real monopolies like Microsoft who have to go to extreme efforts to make profits disappear lest they attract the attention of regulators.... even after writing off billions a year on perennial money losing operations like the Xbox.
Fact is most of the money you pay at the pump goes to taxes and terrorists, which are both good reasons to be looking for alternative energy sources. Of course as soon as an alternative actually becomes profitable Democrats will be right there with their hand out. Hey, somebody has to pay for millions not to work.
Democrat delenda est
Henry Ford didn't have eco-terrorists and environmentalists to deal with.
Nor did the pioneers who homesteaded newly opened territories.
We, on the other hand, do. And they have lawyers, congresscritters, and the media on their payroll.
Wow you are so making me not want anything to do with wind power...
They're huge and blight the landscape...
They make noise...
Induce tourists to violating private property to take pics...
They interfere with off air signals...
Generated a whopping 12 jobs...
So versus nuclear we get less power, less jobs, and more annoyance...wonderful tech.
Don't worry, they're still evil capitalists. They're not going to sell you wind power out of the goodness of their hearts.
Prove this. I love your FUD without anything to back this up. Shit posters like you are why people don't read the comments. At least provide examples for people to discuss; what you posted did nothing for the discussion. This is a prime example of thread shitting. Good job.
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