Swift Boat Funder T. Boone Pickens Greenwashes on Huffpo  | Fri
Jul. 10, 2009 6:19 PM EDT  As my mamma in Texas might say, T.
Boone Pickens is trying to throw a wide loop with a short rope.
The man who funded the swift-boating of Sen. John Kerry is
blogging on the liberal Huffington Post, where he's gone into
full folksy mode to urge us "to pull the trigger" on "an energy
plan this country needs and deserves" (one that would also line
his pockets). The NAT GAS Act, sponsored by Senators Harry Reid
(D-NV) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), would provide massive federal
subsidies to natural gas vehicles, which Pickens is heavily
invested in. Nevermind that those vehicles emit only 10 to 20
percent less greenhouse gas than diesel ones, or that Pickens
and company spent more than $3.7 million promoting the same idea
in California only to see it mocked and voted down. If only
Pickens was as commited to building his vaunted wind farm on the
Texas panhandle, which was supposed to be the largest in the
world before he abandoned