However his latest investment has nothing to do with black gold. Over the next few years he plans to erect a string of 2,700 wind turbines across Texas, a plot that will be five times larger than the world’s current record-holding wind farm. His long term plans are even more impressive: he envisions an army of wind farms along America’s great plains, and a sea of solar panels running from Texas to southern California.
Anyone who thought that all billionaire oil executives were pro-Bush should hear Pickens fume over the president’s apathy towards the energy crisis: "George Bush has done nothing. Nothing. Every guy that ran for president clear back to Nixon said he would make us energy independent, but not one goddamned thing has been done. Zero. The biggest problem facing the United States in the next 50 years is energy and nobody has come up with a solution."
Now that’s a maverick. Read the Guardian article on Pickens here
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