Billionaire T. Boone Pickens had a calm appearance on the Glenn Beck Program, after curiously laying low during climate legislation coverage.


After all, it was only last year he unveiled a $58 million ad campaign for the Pickens Plan, a solution to end our dependence on foreign fuel. The 81-year-old opened with "All my life I've been an oil man" in his weathered Texan drawl, praising alternative energy and pointing out years of poor leadership on climate action. If you're familiar with this oil man, it's one of the greatest paradoxes of the decade: He funded the absurd Swift Boat attacks on John Kerry in 2004 but now spends time cozying up to Al Gore, Robert Kennedy Jr., and Democrats. Carl Pope, then executive director of the Sierra Club, simply ignored criticisms against Pickens, responding “ten billion dollars gets my attention.”

Again, in this clip he discusses his altruistic natural gas hopes which is horribly inefficient and will not significantly reduce emissions. Why would anybody, federal government included,  spend billions of dollars on natural gas fueling stations and natural gas vehicles in order to burn the gas with an efficiency of 15% to 20%? Because Pickens says so?

It's hard to view him as the alternative energy savior he wants you to believe. It was only back in March when Pickens said “you don’t want to turn it over to the greenies, or what’ll happen is they’ll want to shut down every coal plant … for power generation and our utility bills will go through the ceiling.”

Worth mentioning in this video is the way Pickens is treated with the utmost respect. That’s at odds with the program’s often wacky take on wacky greenies, the so-called "Alamo of skepticism." Maybe it's the substitue host. George Soros said he wants to address the politics of climate change and will invest $1 billion in clean-energy technology, creating a group to advise policy makers on environmental issues. We seriously doubt he would be treated equally.

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