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The Party's Over for Big Wind

Robert Bryce | Posted 10.12.2011

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Robert Bryce

A combination of cheap natural gas, growing resistance to wind turbine installations, and the inability of cash-strapped governments to continue hefty subsidies, is taking the wind out of wind.

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Pickens Abandons Plans For Largest Wind Farm

nytimes.com | Kate Galbraith | Posted 05.25.2011

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T. Boone Pickens, the legendary oilman, has abandoned his plan to build the world's largest wind farm....

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T. Boone Pickens Holds Alternative Energy Meeting

Chicago Sun-Times | Andrew Herrmann | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gasoline prices may be falling -- they could drop below $3 a gallon by the holidays -- but T. Boone Pickens merely shrugs. And not just because Picke...

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Picky About the Pickens Plan

Christiana Wyly | Posted 05.25.2011

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Christiana Wyly

"Son, I used to be IN the Oil Lobby! We don't have to worry about them. We the people are more powerful than any lobby any day of the week."

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T. Boone Pickens: From Swift Boater To Pluralist

Larry Gellman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Larry Gellman

In just a few years Pickens has moved from being a totally partisan political animal to a man who is looking for the partial truth in the disparate views of a variety of people.

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Oilman T. Boone Pickens: "A Fool With A Plan"

The New York Times | Deborah Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

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As a Texas oilman and major contributor to the Republican Party, you've just launched yourself, at 80, into green stardom by devising an energy plan t...

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T. Boone Pickens Warns $300 Oil Prices. Urges US To Reduce Oil Dependency

Los Angeles Times | Vimal Patel | Posted 05.25.2011

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The billionaire oilman and onetime corporate raider says the U.S. must wean itself from foreign oil, and he's betting some of his fortune on harnessin...

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Al Gore, T. Boone Pickens: Rival Party Role Models

Dallas Morning News | Dave Michaels | Posted 05.25.2011

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T. Boone Pickens has a new role model: Al Gore. Mr. Pickens, a longtime Republican partisan, and Al Gore, the former Democratic vice president, don't...

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Oil Billionaire T. Boone Pickens Orders 667 Wind Turbines

AP | STEPHEN SINGER | Posted 05.25.2011

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HARTFORD, Conn. _ Maverick oilman T. Boone Pickens' plan for a mammoth wind farm in the Texas Panhandle is a $2 billion bet that Congress will extend ...

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