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T. Boone is Getting on the Gravy Train
Oil man T. Boone Pickens recently announced his own large program to help get America off its oil addictions. His message in his own Texas twang starts off appealing, while he properly and accurately reports on the $700 billion annually we now spend on imported oil, now at 70% of our total oil consumption. ...Regrettably, near the middle of his advertisement T. Boone wandered off into an alternative energy universe, proposing that wind and solar energy replace the current 22% of our electricity produced by natural gas. Neither source is a true alternative, and are merely erratic, unreliable, supplementary energy sources.
July 23, 2008
by Michael R. Fox Ph.D
in Hawaii Reporter
"This nation is exquisitely tied to science and technology with a citizenry which knows little about science and technology"-Carl Sagan
Oil man T. Boone Pickens recently announced his own large program to help get America off its oil addictions. His message in his own Texas twang starts off appealing, while he properly and accurately reports on the $700 billion annually we now spend on imported oil, now at 70% of our total oil consumption. That is a huge sum and economically crippling to be sending off shore.
Correcting this foreign dependence is essential for the nation's energy security and balance... [continue via Web link]
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