Sounds like you need this guy to talk to the Australian government Mick .
The Energy Plan for America Never shy about expressing his closely held beliefs even when they bucked the status quo, in July 2008 Boone Pickens launched a self-funded, $100 million, grassroots campaign aimed at reducing America’s crippling dependence on imported OPEC oil.
In television ads, on his Pickens Plan website, and in personal appearances, he spelled out how our dependence on OPEC oil is an addiction that threatens the U.S. economy, environment, and national security. His 2008 New York Times Best Seller (the second of his career), The First Billion is the Hardest, also detailed what this country must do to win back its energy independence.
Criss-crossing the nation for town meetings and educational sessions with lawmakers, Pickens explained how America’s dependence on OPEC oil forms the intersection of the three most critical issues America currently faces: the economy, the environment, and our national security.
America is blessed with enormous reserves of clean natural gas. The Pickens Plan utilizes this tremendous resource to build a bridge to the future — a blueprint to reduce OPEC oil dependence by harnessing domestic energy sources and buying time for us to develop new technologies to harness wind and solar power and enhance the efficiency of our electrical grid.
This country’s energy is too large to be addressed piecemeal; what’s needed is a plan of action on scale with the problems America faces. That is the spirit in which the Pickens Plan was conceived. The Pickens Plan is a collection of coordinated steps that together form a comprehensive approach to America’s energy needs.
There are several pillars to the Pickens Plan:
Use America’s abundant natural gas to replace imported oil as a
transportation fuel;
Build a 21st century backbone electrical transmission grid;
Develop renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power; and,
Provide incentives to homeowners and the owners of commercial buildings
to upgrade their insulation and increase efficiency.
While dependence on OPEC oil is a critical concern, it is not a problem that can be solved in isolation. Americans must begin to think about energy as a whole, and that begins by considering energy alternatives and thinking about what will fuel the world in the next 10 to 20 years and beyond. More than 1.7 million Americans have joined the Pickens Plan Army. For more information, visit www.pickensplan.com.
Never shy about expressing his closely held beliefs even when they bucked the status quo, in July 2008 Boone Pickens launched a self-funded, $100 million, grassroots campaign aimed at reducing America’s crippling dependence on imported OPEC oil.
