Slim Pickens in the energy business

I love the Booner, but come on, doesn’t it make a tad more sense to have the transmission lines in, or at least staged to be built, before you set off on the construction of the power generation??? The man should know something about infrastructure needs in the energy business. Suppose this was really only a ‘soap-box’ opportunity, or a way to gig the taxpayer:

http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/pickens-drops-plan-for-largest-wind-farm/