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Warren Buffett jumps into solar

It's good that we have people like Buffet and Soros to balance out the evils of the Kochs, Pickens and Blankenship.

Compare Buffet's efforts to those of Pickens and what might be the biggest economic manipulation of the 21st century in the making.

My heating bill for natural gas increased 50 percent in the last year. What do you think will happen if we start burning the stuff in our cars? Who probably owns more gas wells than any other single person?

Pickens has the nerve to say that burning natural gas is good for the environment, when it's just another greenhouse gas producer. It's only one of the many lies of the profiteers (like "clean coal").

I think I'd rather have a handful of wimpy Arab sheiks squeezing my you-know-whats than old T Boone "Swift Boat" Pickens! Is everyone's memory that short?

Add into the mix the whole wind turbine issue, which allows Enron type companies to reap huge profits at the cost of government subsidies. Here in WV, they put wind turbines in inefficient locales, where they create a nuisance and kill birds and bats, simply because the government handout of our tax dollars makes it profitable. Worse yet, the wind turbines generate so-called "green credits", which result in a net increase of pollution.

My biggest fear is that profiteers and carpetbaggers like Pickens are going to amass wealth and power on the backs of the American public (as they always have), all in the name of the "greening" of America. Pickens is this problem on steroids - the worst example, and I shouldn't have to remind all of you of his politics. Do you all really want to subsidize that? Look what happened the last time Pickens decided to put some money into manipulating an election!

A agree about Pickens. It;s all about gas. and the problem is in many areas if you discover gas you discover oil and vice versa. Therefore, you have a legal right to proceed to production.

But I see Buffett's move into solar as a good thing. This is what it takes to inch renewables toward being more competitive with fossil fuels.