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Saturday, December 01, 2007


You don't become the 369th richest person on the planet by accident, but I wish he'd do it with his $3 Billion dollars instead of whining for handouts.
Boone Pickens wants some help building his wind farm, and he's asking taxpayers to provide it.

The Gray County Commissioners Court approved a reinvestment zone Friday to cover the northern one third of the county.

"It's not just for Mesa Power," said County Judge Richard Peet.

But Mesa has asked four other counties to do the same thing. The company has also asked for tax abatements for the sizeable wind farm it wants to build.

At 4,000 megawatts, it would be the world's largest. That would be five times the size of Horse Hollow, a 735-megawatt installation near Abilene that currently is the largest.
Forget for a moment that there's a sizeable opposition to these things because they say they won't work. Is there a bigger condemnation against these wind farms? Why the hell would they need tax-breaks? If they made money, or more to the point, electricity, they wouldn't need government subsidies. But they can't.

Let's just call it what it is. Another discount in the Pickens land-grab.



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