“They’re opening them [oil fields] up to other companies all over the world … We’re entitled to it. Heck, we even lost 5,000 of our people, 65,000 injured and a trillion, five hundred billion dollars," -T. Boone Pickens, speaking to Congress about Iraq.
I have to admit, when Pickens was doing his commercials for wind energy, I tho't maybe we were seeing the beginnings of real change in how we'd go about feeding the beast - which (I'd hoped) would change the beast. Now I see it was just standard bullshit - he saw an opportunity and tried to capitalize on it. Nothin' wrong with that in itself, but pricks like T Boone Pickens feel entitled to the resources that somebody else paid for. They actually believe that my kids should fight and bleed and die in some desert shithole to make sure they have access to the enormous profits they can make by selling the oil back to the machinery being used to go to places like Iraq to secure their access to the oil supplies.
There's no soul in any of this. We've allowed Purpose and Self-Determintation to be stripped out of everything we do.
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