Oklahomans for Energy Independence

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Comment by Zachary C. Fitter on August 27, 2008 at 11:41am

Let's talk logistics: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/business/27grid.html

We need to add modernizing our power grid to our list of demands to our congresspersons.

Comment by Andrew Lewis on August 7, 2008 at 2:33pm

Please come to a Town Hall meeting with T. Boone Pickens where he will discuss the Pickens Plan and take questions from the audience. No ticket required. Open to the public.

Time: August 13, 2008 at 9:30am
Location: Southeast Expo Center
Street: 4500 W Highway 270
City/Town: Mcalester, OK 74501
Website or Map: http://maps.google.com/maps...
Event Type: Town, Hall

Comment by Phil Preston on July 29, 2008 at 8:11am

Thanks to everyone for taking the time from your busy Saturday to join us for the first Tulsa area meeting. There were 25 people there, which was a great start!. And special thanks to the presenters: John Miggins, Standard Renewable Energy; Randy Bacon, Native American Founders Consulting; and Mike Abbey, CNG advocate. The discussion was very lively, and got us all thinking about what we will need to do over the next few months. There isn't a lot of time, and we have to enroll a lot of friends, coworkers and family. I suggested that our statewide goals should be 1 million endorsers by the end of the year. With those kind of numbers we can not only influence our elected officials, but create significant demand for wind/solar/CNG products and services. This will be hard work, and will require constant attention from the core group. I look forward to working with you all as we bring T Boone's vision to reality in Oklahoma. Some pix and the meeting highlights are being posted on NE Oklahoma Region Group. For those in the Tulsa area, please join us on Aug 9 for the next meeting.

Comment by Terry M Buster Jr on July 27, 2008 at 4:14pm

Sounds like everything is progressing. Unfortunately, I didn't notice the update on the meeting for today until just now. Please let those of us that couldn't make it know how things went and what we can do.

Comment by Mike Lindsay on July 26, 2008 at 9:34pm

BTW, Gupta's petition calls for the Federal Gov't to run and tax the people for running the Wind Energy issue. This is worst idea. The fed can't run anything - at all - except a 'spy on you' program. Who the hell is going to be accountable for this? Those sob's aren't accountable for anything. I'm a long way from wanting the gov't to run this show and hope you are as well. That's the worthless entity that got us into this mess to start with. Let Free Enterprise fly - that's what made this country GREAT, We don't need the choke chains of the Fed anymore. Hell, I'm a responsible person, aren't you.

Comment by Mike Lindsay on July 26, 2008 at 9:02pm

It's so encouraging to watch this all come together and I don't think it will fall apart. PRODUCERS = dreamers and mavericks (and make no mistake - TBP is a PRODUCER) are so fed up with trying to pull the economy along that they are really ready to move on without the political pundits at all. In fact, having self-serving, self-important, vote-after-dark politicians holding the reins has been like trying to pull a wagon uphill with a choke chain. Most of us are really tired of being treated like irresponsible children or dogs who would jump the fence if we weren't chained down and we're really ready to break loose. These issues will come together with or without petitions. The Pickens Plan is merely ('merely' seems like a weak word given the significance of what is taking place) a flashpoint of a movement that will become, unless it is corralled and killed by the Sierras, the Gores, the World Bank or some other ????, probably the largest economic development the USA, or the world for that matter, has ever seen.

About 40 years ago, I read a prophetic novel by Ayn Rand named 'Atlas Shrugged'. Suggest you find a copy - I still have mine - and trace the actions of John Galt. Here was a man who had an answer and simply removed the rest of the producers who were being used by the powers that be for their own self-indulgence (sound familiar?). Anyway, I understood the vision of it and always wondered when the PRODUCERS of this country were going to rise up to shake off the weight of the self-serving and make a move for the common good. It's really hopeful to see this happening.

I, too, have read most of this website and what I see is the beginning - not designed by one man or entity but a gathering of many who are coming together from many paradigms much like the patriots who gathered their information from about 100 years of horrific suppression (read all of the Declaration of Independence) - not to suggest that we have been horrifically suppressed, but PRODUCERS have been suppressed nonetheless.

I also have drilled some 'dry holes' and know not only the supressiive overbearing mandates of Washington but living in No Man's Land - know the supression of neglect as well, but I remain willing. With a movement like this, the risk becomes less and the reward becomes greater - for me, for my family, for my neighbors, and for my country and the freedoms that so many have given their all for. I can go on but for many, it will become boring. So I will leave with this. For all you louts in Washington D.C. - None of us can help the poor by becoming one of them and you have sickened me to my core. I will join this army and do all I can to see you on the streets along with all the other freeloaders you have created. Energy and the comforts it provides is welcome in any form, except when the costs that freeloaders don't have to pay become too high. Then it's time to leave them wanting as PRODUCERS move on.

God bless America and God bless this beginning of an American Economic Revolution. Mike Lindsay

BTW, for those of us who couldn't make it to OKC for the meat of the meet - how did it go?

Comment by Alankar Gupta on July 25, 2008 at 10:39pm

Greetings Friends,
We all need to thank Mr. Pickens for explaining the energy problem that we as a nation face. Earlier it was one Group (users) pointing fingers at the other Group (suppliers) and vice versa. The problem is real. It was magnified to some extent, in recent times, by speculators. But, the truth is we are importing more oil every year and producing less. We are sending billions of dollars overseas.

I like what Mr. Pickens is preaching but I do not think he has disclosed his Plan. I have read and reread everyhing that is on this web and I have failed to find the Plan.

Let us imagine that you Plan to go to visit your grandmother in a far away city and start to make a Plan. You will decide when to leave from home. How you will travel from home to grandmother's, how you will pay for the travel, what clothes you will take, and also what you will do with your grandmother. Mr. Picken's has told us that he would like to visit his granny because it is good for him to do so that but he has provided no details on how he Plans to accomplish the mission.

His Plan needs to be supplemented by other plans. Mr. Picken's Plan (presently undefined) will not get us to Energy Independence. I request you study the People's petition for Energy Independence .

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/windenergycorporation

It clearly defines where the money will come from, who will collect it, who will spend it and how, what can be expected at the conclusion of 5 and 10 years and also what will happen when we have become Energy Independent. This Plan is not dependent on the whims of the Stock Market or the condition of the Credit markets. The Plan makes investment every year till the goal is avhieved.
Please (a) sign the Petition and (b) forward it to your friends. United we can achieve Energy Independence and avoid this constant financial bleeding of our great nation.
Also, if you want to become an partner in this endeavour let me know how I can contact you. It will be a Labor of Love for a Country that we love. Just think what it would be to be Energy Independent. What it will do to our standard of living. The opportunities it will offer us, our children and grand children.
Thanks.

Regards and Best wishes,

Alankar Gupta

Comment by Denise on July 25, 2008 at 5:51pm

I see a comment from Patty Lucas that she proposes that we meet on Saturday, July 25th and 5 PM at Panera..located, i think, at 2035 S Meridian. Phone for the Panera is 680-8864. Does that work for you all, or are we now likely to expect a much larger crowd?

Comment by helen allison on July 25, 2008 at 6:52am

can someone tell me when and where???? i live in western oklahoma and just found this web site i am all for wind and solar power puting action where my mouth is i will be adding solar panels to my home this fall so plese some one let me know when and where this meeting will be held

Comment by Gregory L. Smith on July 24, 2008 at 10:07pm

OK, you guys have been under the radar this past week, so I have missed any discussions you have done. Lexi Fish, from the national organizer's Top leaders, asked me to organize a get together this weekend in Oklahoma City, and I thought quite carelessly, that there might be a few people who were interested, not realizing the huge interest and while I have had a look around, it is clear you are already organized. That is a great comfort, since that isn't my strongest talent.
Still, I do want to meet up with the Oklahoma City members and those who want to spend that gasoline to get to the meeting. We should try for a place that has food and drink, but also has some room and some tables, where we can start organizing seriously, so Boone and the top guys, know where we are best talented and where we can be best used to promote the plan and where we can also gain the most, in personal accomplishment, community involvement, and if possible, sometimes some cold hard spending money! This site is a for-profit venture, so consider what you want it to do for you!
I do not speak for the leaders directly, but those are some of the talking points for effectively organizing the groups so we do not fight each other over what is most vital. It is not a place to force commitment, but instead a place to open ideas up to be used for the benefit of America and the rate payers and gas customers of our nation. You can disagree and set up you own meeting, but I might show up anyway to encourage new members and ask about ideas I can pass on. Oklahoma is ready for major changes and our state needs a lot of help getting us to that point.
I want suggestions and even dare to ask, do you want to have such a meeting? The leaders of this group have first rights to set up a meeting, but if they don't want to go to the hassle of finding a place, I will do it. I am easy on who attends and who wants to expouse their pet company, pet project, offer of support for future events, or give organization that might increase the organized numbers in our city and state. It will be successful; Not because we are good speakers or cook well, but because we want to grow America's future and require our nation's leaders to listen.
If you have a comment, please leave it here, or email me at gregors@att.net or call me at 405-650-5101.
My site is somewhere under the Solar group and I am a solar nut, so be warned....I am currently, a not for pay volunteer also. So please be kind or generous or offer your rolls royce on holidays(burning CNG), of course...LOL!
And if Ross Flinton is reading this, the offer is for you to lead.So lead on brother....PS If someone has a laptop with WIFI, that would be cool, especially if it has a webcam, because the National group is having a call in again on Sunday...

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