More Energy Options? Or Mangling the Tax Code?
Posted by Jim Harper
Commenter Nezumi has done a little picking apart of the Pickens Plan.
I would be surprised if Pickens hadn’t thought through the tax implications of his proposal in a way that some would regard as “gaming the system.” But who would begrudge someone for following the incentives set up by the tax system? They [...]
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The Pickens Plan
Posted by Jim Harper
Politically conservative oil prospector T. Boone Pickens is making a big (ahem . . .) splash with his proposal to generate 20 percent of the country’s electricity by building wind farms from the Canadian border to West Texas.
In a public statement yesterday, he said:
I am calling on the next President and Congress to take immediate [...]
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