T. Boone Pickens Meets with Irwin Jacbos in Minnesota

I first introduced you to T. Boone Pickens in an early post about a multi-million dollar television campaign to promote wind energy. Now, T. Boone Pickens has taken it campaign all across America and his latest stop is in Minnesota to the national republican convention. He has also met up with local businessman Irwin Jacob to talk about plans to start a new business venture in the wind energy field. No details have been released about their talks, but it looks promising with Jacobs saying:

“It is in the wind energy area and its just something that I can’t get into at this time. It’s a very natural thing to go with it.” he said, adding that ”it’s not in the turbine business.”

T. Boone Pickens is also pushing the federal government to start offering tax credits to entice more people to build wind turbines. He also would like the expansion of transmission lines so that the wind energy generated in the Midwest can be transported to both the east and west coasts. In order to do so, the government needs to step in to go against local opposition. This makes some feel completely dependent on these Midwestern wind farms to get energy throughout the nation. Another plan may be to start building wind farms on a more local level. Whether it is more efficient or not, this will allow each area to control their own energy production.

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