T. Goon Pickens

T. Boone Pickens has been airing commercials on some new genius way to make it so we're off foreign oil dependancy. I had to know what this was all about, so i went to his website and read the plan. It's another Gore-like idea for us to just raise taxes to pay for tons more solar panels, and windmills (I will admit I do like windmills at least) and use them for power instead of using coal or gas. As for our cars, he would have every american get a natural gas car so we can become more environmentally friendly. He says he's been an oil man all his life, and I'm beginning to wonder if he swallowed some oil and damaged his brain cells. He admits that all of these solar panels and windmills could reasonably only power about 20% of the nation with his plan. The raise in taxes to do so would take a long time to equal out the losses from building them, and it would put us into more national debt that will slow down that process even more. As for making all americans convert to natural gas, I can't even believe that this is the answer. I have a natural gas car and I'm glad I invested in it, but not everyone can afford such a car because the up front cost is too much. We all know what will end up happening if this unlikely plan ever took off. The government would just raise taxes extremely high so poor people get it too, and we take yet another step towards socialism. The other plans are lacking too. Many people want to open the nation's reserves, others want to tax the gas companys more, and most of the nation wants to drill. I say we drill, and yeah, maybe it will take some time to get it out, so we open the reserves just in the meantime. After we can start getting oil out, then we work towards replacing our nation's reserves. There's a plan that would take us away from fopreign dependancy, but we'll never do it because Al Gore needs more money by scaring us out of oil use.