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T. Boone Pickens sounds like he could be a country singer, he’s even got a little bit of a twang, but he’s singing the “we are addicted to foreign oil blues…”
If you’ve never heard of T. Boone Pickens, he is a billionaire who made his money in oil, mergers and acquisitions of oil companies and is often referred to as a corporate raider and greenmailer. He is also known as an activist in the political arena as well as an animal rights champion and a philanthropist in the humanitarian and education causes.
According to his bio on Wikipedia, Pickens has been talking about alternative energy sources to oil since 1997, when he “began touting natural gas as the best vehicular fuel alternative because it’s a domestic resource”, pushing for Nuclear Energy and other Alternative Energies such as wind power. Now this is also around the time that he formed a corporation now called Clean Energy that owns and operates natural gas fueling stations from British Columbia to the Mexican border.
That being said, his personal reasons for coming up with this plan may seem partially self-serving, and only he knows the answer to that. It’s not a bad plan, maybe not a perfect plan but it is a plan, we went through a similar thing back in the 70’s, let 30 years lapse without a plan and here we are again. I believe a plan is better than no plan, anything to get the oil monkey off our back, out of pockets and out of our air.
Check it out for yourself go to his website and see what you think, get involved if you want…Pickens Plan
July 23rd, 2008 at 08:00 am by bibi in Alternative Energy, Carbon Footprint, Economy, Energy, Environment, Environmental Politics, Green Action, Living Green, New Green Ideas, Pickens Plan, energy-plan, t.boone-pickens
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I worte the same thing a couple of weeks ago. You can see it at my site or here: http://willtaft.com/contemporary-issues/water-will-be-the-next-oil/
Hopefully it won’t be the next oil!
I see now that this is not the same issue I wrote about! Pickens seems to have his fingers in a lot of pies. This video makes him look like he wants to be the next Al Gore. He owns a lot of property in the swath he wants to put the wind farms in., so even though it is a commendable idea, he does have ulterior profit motives just like he does when he is buying up all the water rights in the same part of the country.
Nice site! I agree about Pickens. It would be about time to have a plan instead of no plan at all!
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