The Pickens Plan

Every American knows that the most pressing issue in our country today is Energy. If you stop and think it is tied to all of the other major issues. The economy is suffering because energy costs have sky rocketed and that cost is being passed onto consumers. It is the #1 issue facing the Presidential candidate this year as well. John McCain wants more offshore drilling, Barack Obama wants us to inflate our tires. Those are good short term ideas but what we really need to be doing is developing new technologies to not only end our dependence on foreign oil, but end our dependence on dirty energy all together.

I tend to give credit to people who propose something that flies in the face of what they do. Such is the case with oil tycoon, T. Boone Pickens. He is leading a charge to develop new technologies now to end our dependence on oil. If you have a minute go to his website www.pickensplan.com
and read his plan. This is something we should have been doing a long time ago, and the excuse that it will take so many years to get the infrastructure in place for this to work is a cop out. If we had started on this 10 years ago, and yes the techonolgy was there 10 years ago, then we wouldn't be having the energy problems that we have now. Take wind power for instance, it would take covering 50% of the state of Kentucky with wind turbines to power all of the American homes for one year. Or, with solar power, it would take covering 7% of the state of Arizona to power American homes for a year. It can be done, someone just has to take the initiative.