Is it about oil or water? Energy or existance?

What is T. Boone Pickens up to? There is some kind of underlying (no pun intended) river here.

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The man is buying acreage to put up wind farms…but it appears that might be a surface (pun intended) ruse that keeps everybody appeased.

I submit to you, that he is more interested in the water under the visible generators. The man is no dummy…some call him a genius, and he is going to make money even if he has to hold people hostage to get it.

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Perhaps we should be wondering if fighting over oil is just a beginning, and we will continue to fight in the future over the liquid we can’t live without…fresh water.

I can’t think of a way to ensure I won’t have to fight for water if it comes to that, but I’m relatively sure some of you here can make some suggestions.

If this guy is up to no-good with this, you can bet others are too. It makes me nervous that he seems to have dropped off the radar recently…well at least as far as someone of his wealth can drop.

I can live without oil. Granted it would be a vastly changed lifestyle, but I can do it. I can keep my children alive without oil. However, if I have to rely on surface water and precipitation for my fresh water supply, my very existance comes into question.

This still runs around in the back of my mind, and I am reading all that I can find to to read on it. I still don't like the undercurrent in this man's plan.

I found another link that was written with the same thoughts I have...I think.

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There is something about this that doesn't make sense, and when things don't make sense. I tend to look at the money flow....follow the money as it were...

I think he figures the money will flow with his water.

There is a reason he is a billionaire.

He is investing $10 billion to build the world's largest wind farm in the Texas panhandle. Through another venture, Clean Energy Fuels Corp., he is the country's largest private owner of natural-gas fueling stations. If demand for these sources soars, as his plan envisions, he is positioned to win big. Pickens, who claims he's worth $4 billion (Fortune says $3 billion), scoffs at the notion that he's driven by profit. "I don't need to make any more money," he says, laughing. In fact, Pickens says he doesn't even plan to erect turbines on his own 120,000-acre ranch in the panhandle, because he thinks they are "ugly."

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The water rights are what raises the red flag for me. Rumors that he didn't even want the oil rights on some of this land...cant verify that...but it seems he might be changing his "liquid" assets.

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Water is becoming a an important topic in Texas.

Some are trying to make plans for the future.

Dallas is trying to take it from East Texas.

And finding enough water is a challenge…so from 1980 to 1999 big cities like Austin and Houston cut their per-capita consumption of water by more than 15%.

San Antonio has cut more than 35%, all to guard against shortages when the rain doesn’t fall and the lakes start dropping.

One city has not. And it now wants more water…and some of it is from East Texas.

“They have some conservation programs, but it’s not resulting in much of a change in their behavior,” says of Janice Bezanson of the Texas conservation Alliance.

Dallas per-capita consumption actually rose 35% in that same time period.

“What they’re talking about is water for 2050, 2060,” she said. “And what they need to do for that water is just absolutely sensible conservation like what the rest of the state is doing.”

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