Which Energy Independence Plan is Better — T. Boone Pickens, or Google? Part 1

October 27, 2008

T. Boone Pickens has been putting up so many commercials to advertise his energy independence plan that his crinkly, octogenarian visage is becoming nearly as familiar as the GEICO cavemen or Max, the annoying talking Volkswagen Beetle who startles car shoppers in VW commercials. So what is Pickens, who became the 369th richest person on the planet primarily by drilling for oil and taking over other oil companies (or attempting to do so, and driving up the price of his stock holdings), doing promoting wind power as an alternative to oil? Well, let’s let him do the talking.

From his Web site, here’s more detail on his argument for wind power, and the specifics of his plan, which he boasts could turn the U.S. into the “Saudi Arabia of wind power":