If you think that messiah Obama has the message of economic salvation, and that Pelosi has the power to save the planet from the horrible prospect of drilling for crude oil, get ready for another round of salvation; this time it is energy and the savior is T. Boone Pickens who has set aside 12,000,000,000 (yes that is billion as in that’s a lot of moola) to promote wind energy. Big whirly bird blades are going to solve the energy crisis.

Those old enough to remember can recall the medicine show snake oil salesmen who arrived in towns to sell stuff that would cure whatever ailed the populace. If the people didn’t have the ailment, they would by the time the pitchman ended his spiel and began to collect the price for the bottle of liquid or pills. If the ailment wasn’t present, rest assured that the snake oil would prevent whatever might befall the hearer. Better to be safe than sorry, so we’ll take two bottles if you please.  

The snake oil and pills didn’t do anything for the people that bought it except relieve them of their hard earned coins, but it did do wonders for the financial health of the charlatan. Now the modern snake oil unpatriotic anti-United States and godless socialists in Congress won’t allow the oil companies to drill for oil where there is known quantities of oil. They are trying to make everyone believe that drilling is a hoax, so the snake oil of energy production, T. Boone Pickens, has become the pitchman. He says we can’t drill our way out of the crisis and that wind can produce 20% of the power needs. If we can’t drill our way out of the crisis which the ban on drilling created, then why are other nation’s drilling to ramp up the world‘s supply of oil? Apparently, the other producers aren’t disciples of Pelosi, Reid and Pickens. Those names read like a shyster law firm.

According to the news, Pickens stands to reap so much profit on the wind scheme to free up natural gas, that it will make the 12,000,000 billion look like weekly coffee and doughnut money. Keep in mind, T. Boone doesn’t do anything that won’t cure an ailing portfolio if there is such an item in his financial picture. Even worse, Nancy Pelosi owns stock in a company that T. Boone owns. The company produces natural gas. So the future is going to be filled with more political gas and wind, not that we don’t have enough of it from liberals already.

Environmentalists don’t like coal plants, but are silent on the fact that windmill blades chop millions of birds to pieces. They like natural gas powered plants but never complain that such creations cause the cost of natural gas to homeowners and businesses to escalate continually year after year. Coal is in abundance, but it creates a carbon footprint and we can’t have that at all. Does anyone see stupidity at work in all of this nonsense?  

The Bible tells us that the love of money is the root of all evil. The politicians love your money and T. Boone is right in there looking for his share because his plan calls for government subsidies to help defray the cost of the wind power and solar power. If the solution is so great, what is the reason Pickens needs a subsidy to produce the intended result. The answer is easy. When it is possible to tap the taxpayers for snake oil schemes, never doubt that the package will be marketed in such a way that the unsuspecting will eagerly reach for their wallets in the name of saving the planet.  

Snake oil salesmen rode into towns on wagons pulled by horses or mules. They made their pitch and moved on. Today the pitch comes via the radio, TV and the newspaper. They never go away until the gullible public acquiesces to their scam. They fill their pockets and ride out, looking for more ways to fleece the public, ripe for “pickens.” T. Boone says there is a lot of wind out there that needs to be harnessed. In Sorting It Out, the wind that needs to be harnessed is T. Boone’s promotion of snake oil solutions. He should know snake oil is phony since he made his fortune by producing real oil.

© 08-14-2008 DEC