Energy and Business

What can I do? I am only one person and everything seems so hopeless. I might as well give up.  Do you know that feeling?

Well, whenever I feel like that I go look for stories of inspiration, and this morning a friend showed me just that.  I was told about the Pickens Plan. The one man with the plan is Mr. T Boone Pickens, a second-generation oil and gas man from Texas.

Now he is using his experience and wealth to make a difference in how America thinks about energy. See him explain it all in his own words here.

Pickens claims he saw the oil crisis coming. Our dependence on foreign oil has increased from 24% in 1970 to nearly 70% today.  He points out that our dependence on foreign oil forms the intersection of the three most critical issues America currently faces: the economy, the environment and our national security.

So he sat down and formulated a plan for a solution.  It turns out that America is blessed with the world’s greatest wind power corridor running straight through Texas and abundant reserves of clean natural gas. Pickens intends to make good use of these.

The Plan calls for building new wind generation facilities that will produce 20% of our nation’s electricity and allow us to use natural gas as a transportation fuel. The combination of these domestic energies can replace more than one-third of our foreign oil imports.  According to Pickens the plan can make a big difference in as little as 10 years!

To make sure that this change will happen Mr. Pickens and his people are thinking ahead.  Part of their mission: “On January 20th, 2009, a new President will take office, and we are organizing behind the Pickens Plan now to ensure our voices will be heard by the next administration.  Together we can raise a call for change and set a new course for America’s energy future in the first hundred days of the new presidency, breaking the hammerlock of foreign oil and building a new domestic energy future for America with a focus on sustainability.”

Another way this plan is going to work is through a shared vision. The Pickens Plan website is full of ways to become part of the plan. You can connect it to your Myspace or Facebook. There are tons of images, badges and videos, all made ready for you to help spread the word.

If you want to be part of the Pickens Plan to start changing America’s future today then go to their website and join.