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Texas oil man speaks to university future leaders

Uzbekistan News.Net
Thursday 8th January, 2009

Famous US oil magnate, T. Boone Pickens, has told political leaders they should quickly accepy natural gas and wind power as part of a US energy plan.

The Texan oil billionaire has warned higher prices are on the way for oil.

Speaking in a lecture hall at Rice University, the 80-year-old said he hoped Barack Obama was prepared for the new challenge and called for the young people in the audience to fight for a national energy plan.

He said an energy crisis could crush the hopes of younger generations.

Mr Pickens said: 'We do not have a plan..and a fool with a plan can beat a genius with no plan. You have got to help get a plan for this country.'

Pickens has been spending his own considerable fortune in a campaign to convince US leaders they should adopt wind power to replace the natural gas used in electric power generation, with the gas then being used to displace a portion of the oil being used to produce gasoline.

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WOW
01-09-09, 08:57 AM

Texas oil man speaks to university future leaders

MR PICKEN IS HEAVYLY INVESTED IN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY THAT IS WHY HE IS PUSHING FOR WIND POWER AND SOLAR POWER. HE WANT TO EXPLORE ALL FACET OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SO HE CAN CONTROL AND MAKE MONEY AS HE DID IN OIL AND GAS BUSINESS. A GREED OLD MAN AND HE THINK ABOUT IS MAKING THAT BIG BUCK ON YOU.

James Everitt
01-10-09, 08:34 AM

Lend Your Support Pickens Plan!

Please we can not slow down at this time. Boone is in Washington and will need our help when he returns to report on his efforts. If he succeeds we can rest, but if congress fails to see our needs for a funded energy policy that is a cure and not a band aid we will need to be ready.

Congress is sworn in now and our fait is in the hands of Nancy Pelosi and Barney Franks. This fact alone gives me reason to continue with the PP and the ENERGY PARTY.

I want to see a funded energy policy that will lead America to energy independence and lead the way out of this economic mess with new energy technology. Energy technologies new and old can be utilized to build and produce new energy production and millions of new jobs.

Let us wait to see what they plan and what T. Boone can accomplish in the Lions Den (Washington). I pray for Boone and our efforts to succeed and for us to get back on track with energy and the economy. This time though I am planning ahead, fool me once shame on them, fool me twice shame on me, and I am ashamed. Fool me three times, not without a fight.

Talk about the PP and the ENERGY PARTY to everyone you meet, at work, at church, at play and with family. The feeling need to do something is in all of us at this critical time in our lives and with our countries economic mess. Some just need to be asked because like so many of us I wandered aimlessly last year through high gas prices until I heard Boone’s message. That message and the fact that congress did nothing spurred me to this point.

Visit ENERGY PARTY at:
http://push.pickensplan.com/groups/group/show?id=2187034%3AGroup%3A1302157

Join us at Pickens Plan:
http://www.pickensplan.com

Thanks,
James Everitt

Frannie
01-10-09, 10:01 AM

Go Boone Go

You Go Boone, You have always been the man when it comes to IDEAS. Fran Cook

ginger
01-10-09, 09:01 PM

Boone

I have driven propane powered trucks and they are no different than gasoline powered ones. Natural gas is the way to go until we can develop something better! We need to get off foreign oil now!!!!!!!!!!!!

shiwala
01-11-09, 06:22 PM

Carlyle Group Involvment

When I read that James Baker is heavily involved, I became leary, as I suspect involvment of the Carlyle Group, the folks who brought us the war in Iraq. Boone also heavily backed the Swift Boat Veterans who lied about Kerry’s military experiences. I do not trust these people. Conserve all energy, while alternatives are coming.

Anonymous
01-09-09, 12:47 PM

So tell Mr. T. Boone Pickens to wear a windmill hat on his head to energize then. I am just too busy to rotate my TV antenna try to get better signal.


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