A Breath of Fresh Air

Here's something worth mulling over...

Last week, as I was flipping channels, I came across a Senate hearing that was addressing our energy crisis. It caught my attention because the speaker was T. Boone Pickens, founder of BP Capital, LP. Mr. Pickens was presenting his plan for switching our dependency on foreign oil to a renewable source of energy (i.e. wind and energy). Mr. Pickens does a good job explaining our current situation. I recommend visiting his site PickensPlan and viewing his explanatory videos.

It goes without saying that Mr. Pickens has a monetary interest in this plan. I'm sure he's tired of paying these outrageous prices for barrels of oil (and he owns land in the wind and solar corridor...and he probably has the only blue print for a super efficient wind turbine that churns out double the energy in half the time and makes Girl Scout Thin Mints while doing it). If he keeps paying out all this money for oil, how are all of his great grandchildren going to burn up their trust money on BMW's and coke???? Mr. Pickens advises that if we replace a portion of our natural gas dependency with wind and solar energy then we can use the excess to fuel our vehicles and lower our need for the millions and millions of barrels we burn through day after day. Nobody is recommending that we completely forego using oil and gas for energy, that's impossible. Just less.

There's no easy fix. But, I think most sensible people realize that we need some kind of change. I don't know what the answer is. Drilling here in the US and Alaska is an option, but until the government can get a big enough piece of the pie in tax revenue, that idea is far off from ever coming to fruition. All I know is...we're fucked. My plans for the future?...buy land in the wind and solar corridor, heavily purchase wind turbine production company stocks, try to marry off one of your kids into the Pickens family, learn how to ride a skateboard everywhere and/or build a car that runs on dirty diapers or dog turds.