NOW is the time: Push the Plan to your Senators, Congressmen, and President-elect Obama
From Reuters: "Billionaire T. Boone Pickens expects to know within 100 days of Barack Obama taking over as president in January whether the U.S. government is going to adopt part of his ambitious and controversial energy plan.
The plan calls for an eventual overhaul of the power grid and Pickens is also betting on huge growth in wind power. But he said, as a start, the United States can move toward using natural gas in trucks as well as more renewable power.
"I think both of those will be accepted in the first 100 days of this next administration," Pickens told industry players at the annual EEI Financial Conference on Tuesday.
"I haven't been told that this is the way it's going to unfold," he said, but he saw Obama's plan to stop importing oil from the Middle East within 10 years as an indication that he favored his plan.
"I think it can be done, but you're going to have to do it with natural gas," added Pickens, who made his fortune in the energy business.
Pickens said he hoped Obama's goal would not turn out to be like President Richard Nixon's prediction in 1970, when the United States imported a quarter of its oil, that the country would no longer buy any from abroad by the end of that decade.
The United States now imports 70 percent of the oil it consumes, and Pickens said that share would rise to three-quarters and that a barrel of crude would cost $300 within a decade if the country did not adopt some sort of energy policy......."
The plan calls for an eventual overhaul of the power grid and Pickens is also betting on huge growth in wind power. But he said, as a start, the United States can move toward using natural gas in trucks as well as more renewable power.
"I think both of those will be accepted in the first 100 days of this next administration," Pickens told industry players at the annual EEI Financial Conference on Tuesday.
"I haven't been told that this is the way it's going to unfold," he said, but he saw Obama's plan to stop importing oil from the Middle East within 10 years as an indication that he favored his plan.
"I think it can be done, but you're going to have to do it with natural gas," added Pickens, who made his fortune in the energy business.
Pickens said he hoped Obama's goal would not turn out to be like President Richard Nixon's prediction in 1970, when the United States imported a quarter of its oil, that the country would no longer buy any from abroad by the end of that decade.
The United States now imports 70 percent of the oil it consumes, and Pickens said that share would rise to three-quarters and that a barrel of crude would cost $300 within a decade if the country did not adopt some sort of energy policy......."
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Comment by Michael Knight on June 22, 2009 at 8:10am -
C O N S E R V A T I O N :
Free Alternative Energy Available Now !
America Continues to Waste over 70% of the Energy it Consumes.
100's of millions of lights unnecessarily burn during the day and night, over heating and over cooling is the norm, over packaging, inadequate recycling, toxic landfills, horrendous road congestion, and our perverted obsession with road construction. Public and Private buildings, Schools, Churches, Homes, ... America's blatant energy waste and overuse is culturally pervasive, and abominable !
1- ONLY with a substantial and tangible economic reward/consequence will most Americans care to conserve.
Crude oil must be taxed at $200 per barrel and offset by making income tax begin at $60k.
Taxing energy is simple, fair, economically sound, and available TODAY.
2- The American auto industry must quickly transition to the 6.4 BILLION people reason$ to manufacture solar, wind, and other alternative energy producers. They already have the needed infrastructure. Every home and building in the world, could be using solar energy. We are fast running out of fossil fuels !
Humanity is racing toward extinction, via global warming, for our failure to stop our energy waste.
Taxing energy (in lieu of income taxes) is the ONLY incentive that will stop energy waste and cause renewable energy sources to be employed.
Michael Knight, PhD Energy Conservation Policy mk.ConservationMatters@gmail.com
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Comment by Lynn Flaherty on January 27, 2009 at 7:12pm -
I am new to the Pickens Plan even though I've read much about it. I have just contacted my District 8 Representative Patrick Murphy to request that he sign on to the Pickens Plan. I found all the information I needed via Google and was able to link directly to his office to send mail.
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Comment by Renee Klink on November 30, 2008 at 10:01am -
Here's a good reference point: for a list of Senators by state, visit http://senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm?OrderBy=state&Sort=ASC. For a list of House members by state, visit http://www.house.gov/house/MemberWWW_by_State.shtml
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Comment by Philip R Robillard on November 24, 2008 at 4:51am -
It would be nice if someone listed all the congressmen and senators by state along with their contact information so that people would know who to contact and where to contact them.
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