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The U.S. is the Saudi Arabia of Wind Power - 7/16/08

Legendary oil man T. Boone Pickens says, The U.S. “is the Saudi Arabia of wind power.” According to Pickens and his organization, Great Plains of the U.S., the U.S. is home to the greatest wind energy potential in the world by far.

T. Boone unveiled his plan a few days ago called the Pickens Plan. His organization is attempting to bring the U.S. energy crisis into the dialogue of the presidential election.

According to T. Boone we import 70% of our oil at a cost of $700 billion a year. This is four times the annual cost of the Iraq war. The Pickens plan would turn the U.S. toward wind and natural gas and move us away from dependency on foreign oil. T. Boone has invested billions of dollars in wind and natural gas.

Wind in North Dakota alone could provide the power for one quarter of the country. T. Boone proposes the U.S. build wind facilities in the corridor between the Texas Panhandle to North Dakota which could produce 20% of the electricity for the U.S. This would be a onetime cost of $1 trillion dollars. $200 billion would be needed to build the capacity for transmitting that energy to cities and towns.

$1 trillion is a lot of money, but compared to spending $700 billion a year on foreign oil, it’s a bargain.

The Pickens Plan would help us free our country from the bonds of foreign oil. Only renewable energy will provide independence from oil, plus we receive the benefits of saving our environment from Global Warming in the process. It‘s a no brainer.

Video: Picken's Plan

www.pickensplan.com

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