T. Boone Is Picken A Green Alternative Lifestyle
Over the last year, T. Boone Pickens has been promoting alternative energies to help the U.S. get off foreign oil. T. Boone is a smart businessman. Even though he’s been a Texas oilman all his life he see’s the end of it’s road on the horizon.
Now T. Boone is looking to sway Americans to buy into his solar wind alternative energy solution. Sure, this is a good long term goal to reduce our dependence on foreign oil, but he also has ulteria motives – he owns Envision Energy Systems which is heavily invested in green technologies, especially solar power. Not only that, he now calls his backyard (Texas, Oklahoma and the MidWest) the “central wind corridor”, which is perhaps the country’s best source of sustaining winds that could earn him billions. It’s like two peas in a pod!
T. Boone is causing a stir with media hype. Alot like his good ole boy Texas neighbor Ross Perot did, a couple of years ago (when he ran for president). Now, now, now – let me tell ‘yah – T. Boone’s green energy plan looks like a win-win-win situation. A win for T. Boone, a win for the country and a win for the environment.
Anyway, T. Boone recently spoke to an audience at the Greater Phoenix Chamber of Commerce conference on energy, Pickens proposed steps to wean the country off oil with a mix of wind power and natural gas.
“There’s no question Arizona’s been out front, and it came from air quality (issues),” he said.
T. Boone is also a proponent of natural gas and is proposing we switch the nation’s trucking fleet over to natural gas, claiming that alone would reduce U.S. dependence on oil by 38 percent.
Pickens said Phoenix-based Swift Transportation Co. Inc., for example, could switch its fleet to natural gas in a matter of a few years by converting or buying new about 7,000 trucks a year. At similar turnover rates, the country could convert about 1 million trucks to natural gas in the next several years, he said.
He proposed steps to wean the country off oil with wind power and natural gas. But T. Boone is no dummy - he knows that Arizona is a hotbed for neither – so he added solar power to the discussion, saying the Western states could do with solar what he’s proposing for a central wind corridor.
His plan calls for wind power of about 200,000 megawatts a year to be generated along the country’s central corridor, from Texas to North Dakota. That could take the place of natural gas in electric generation for utilities, he said, allowing that fuel to be used in vehicles instead.
With an annual expense of between $200 billion and $700 billion for foreign oil, depending on the price per barrel, Pickens said the nation needs to do something within the next few years or it risks becoming increasingly dependent on oil from unstable areas of the globe.
T. Boone Pickens is a great businessman, a man who believes in his convictions and maybe now he will be a pioneer.
I think this situation puts Mr. Pickens in the right spot at the right time – however, the timing may not – He is a devote Republican and the Democrats control the floor!
