FW: T. Boone Pickens Calls Koch Bros Biggest Deterrent to US Energy Policy

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T. Boone Pickens Calls Koch Bros Biggest Deterrent to US Energy Policy

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It's pretty amazing to think that just 2 men are responsible for holding an
entire country - the US - back from being able to implement a responsible
energy policy.

Even Mexico and Peru have one, but not the US. 

In an interview this week with Yahoo's Daily Ticker, T. Boone Pickens says
his biggest concern right now is that the US doesn't have an energy policy
and he points directly at the Koch Bros as the reason.

"The biggest deterrent to an energy plan in America is Koch Industries," he
says. "They do not want an energy plan for America because they have the
cheapest natural gas price they've ever had, and they're in the fertilizer
business and they're in the chemical business. So their margins are huge.
And they do not want you to have an energy plan, because if you had a plan,
then natural gas prices would come up."

Germany, on other other hand, can decarbonize with renewables because "We
Don't Have the ... Koch Brothers," said a German State Minister. He referred
to their lobbying for fossil fuels and against clean energy, and its
spending on climate science disinformation through the front group Americans
for Prosperity. They have outspent even ExxonMobil. 

Meanwhile, another Koch Bros-backed group, The Heartland Institute, has
launched one of the most offensive billboard campaigns in U.S. history,
reports the Guardian. 

It compares people who accept the facts of climate science, including 
journalists who report on it accurately, to Charles Manson, the Unabomber,
and Osama Bin Laden.



Heartland is holding a Climate Change "Reality" Conference later this month
in Chicago to further spin their misinformation campaign.

General Motors and AT&T pulled their support of Heartland, but  State Farm
and Microsoft, along with many others are still there including Eli Lilly &
Co., GlaxoSmithKline, Nucor, Pfizer, and Time Warner Cable. 

Why did Heartland feature Charles Manson, the Unabomber, and Osama Bin
Laden.these people on its billboards?

Here's their answer (which is on the conference website along with the
billboard proudly displayed):

Because what these murderers and madmen have said differs very little from
what spokespersons for the United Nations, journalists for the "mainstream"
media, and liberal politicians say about global warming....

The point is that believing in global warming is not "mainstream," smart, or
sophisticated. In fact, it is just the opposite of those things. Still
believing in man-made global warming - after all the scientific discoveries
and revelations that point against this theory - is more than a little
nutty. In fact, some really crazy people use it to justify immoral and
frightening behavior.

The people who still believe in man-made global warming are mostly on the
radical fringe of society. This is why the most prominent advocates of
global warming aren't scientists. They are murderers, tyrants, and madmen.

Wow - you can't make this stuff up!!
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