The Pickens Plan is worth exploring
When an oil man and environmentalists agree, you know the momentum for real change is building.
Yet that is just what is happening. In Denver, Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens and Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope talked about the Pickens Plan, which calls for huge increases in investment and production of wind power and using American natural gas as a transition.
Americans should take notice. While more drilling for oil might enrich big oil companies trying to wring every drop out of oil profits before the inevitable, the real economic opportunity lies not with the failed ideas of the past but with real investment in the transition to a clean energy economy.
Chuck Bennett
Mount Prospect
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