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T. Boone Pickens continues to openly lobby for alternative energy legislation that will make him a lot of money, and it doesn’t seem to be generating much flak.<\/p>\n
He’s definitely a sharp person.<\/p>\n
He’s showing us how blatantly manipulating legislation and the use of tax payer dollars for personal profit is perfectly fine with the public if it has to do with alternative energy:<\/p>\n
Drive On:<\/a><\/p>\n “They [The Obama administration] haven’t done anything but support me,” said Pickens at a press conference at the National Automobile Dealers Association meeting in Orlando today. Pickens, among other things, contributed to the Swift Boat Veterans group that ran ads against Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., in his 2004 presidential challenge against President George W. Bush, although he sounded positively neutral in the 2008 race.<\/p>\n …<\/p>\n He’s behind legislation to offer $65,000 tax incentives for conversion of 8 million 18-wheel long-haul trucks from diesel fuel, which is largely made from imported oil, to natural gas, which is almost entirely U.S. produced. Pickens says he thinks the plan has a good chance of bipartisan support in Congress. And he says he thinks that truck-stop operators will be willing for fork over the $1.5 million or more per station to install natural-gas fueling equipment. “It’s peanuts” in the scheme of things, Pickens says.<\/p>\n Read more here ><\/a><\/p>\n Join the conversation about this story »<\/a><\/p>\n See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n T. Boone Pickens continues to openly lobby for alternative energy legislation that will make him a lot of money, and it doesn’t seem to be generating much flak. He’s definitely a sharp person. He’s showing us how blatantly manipulating legislation and the use of tax payer dollars for personal profit is perfectly fine with the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":809,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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