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Best earth-friendly Texan 2008: T. Boone Pickens
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T. Boone Pickens (AP Photo: Sue Ogrocki)
In July 2008 Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens presented The Pickens Plan, an energy independence plan aimed to reduce the United States dependence on foreign oil. The reason? Mr. Pickens found the dependence on foreign oil to form the intersection of the three most critical issues America currently faces - the economy, the environment and national security.
“World oil production peaked in 2005”, Mr. Pickens said, “oil is getting more expensive to produce, harder to find and there just isn't enough of it to keep up with demand. The simple truth is that cheap and easy oil is gone”.
The solution to the problem, Mr. Pickens says, is to make use of the domestic energy alternative that already exists. The United States has the world’s greatest wind power corridor and rich reserves of natural gas. A combination that can replace one third of the U.S oil import in 10 years, Mr. Pickens points out.
The Pickens Plan, that so far has the support of 1.3 million members, calls for the construction of new wind energy facilities that will produce 20% of the U.S electricity and allow for the use of natural gas as transportation fuel.
T. Boone Pickens is named best earth-friendly Texan 2008 for his inspiring decision to take action. Mr. Pickens has re-energized Americans tired of oil dependence, high gas prices, and skeptical that neither the new Administration nor the new Congress are up to the challenge.
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