July 10, 2008

Pickens Plan

Oil man T. Boone Pickens (heck of a name, no?) wants to replace the 22% of our nation's energy production that comes from natural gas with wind. He wants to use that displaced natural gas -- supposedly the cleanest transportation fuel available today -- for transportation instead, cutting down the $700 billion worth of oil we import for that purpose every year by 38%.

Regardless of whether you think he's heading in the right direction (my opinion? it's a great start), you've got to love his multimedia social networking website. What a fantastic vehicle for the message; and why aren't more causes using social networking so effectively?

And here's his video from the site ...


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