Pickin' & Grinnin'

T. Boone Pickens, an oil man from an oil family in Oklahoma (read his bio at http://www.boonepickens.com/early-days.asp) just released this message to the media:

"America is in a hole and it's getting deeper every day. We import 70 percent of our oil at a cost of $700 billion a year - four times the annual cost of the Iraq war. I've been an oil man all my life, but this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of. But if we create a new renewable energy network, we can break our addiction to foreign oil. On January 20, 2009, a new President gets sworn in. If we're organized, we can convince Congress to make major changes toward cleaner, cheaper and domestic energy resources.To get this done, I need your help. Check out the plan. If you think it's worth fighting for, please join our effort, and encourage everyone you know to do the same." (see his plan at http://www.pickensplan.com/).

View his short video, read the plan, respond to it. He supports moving Natural Gas into transportation & Wind Power to replace 38% of our current oil imports.
Contact your local, state & federal representatives, if you haven't already. (Go to http://thomas.loc.gov/to search for your representative. This link--Library of Congress--is also posted under My Favorite Links on the main blog page). Remember, the bigger the noise, the more likely they'll listen.