"Some of you have seen this ad from T. Boone Pickens…"

Yesterday, Senator Barack Obama was on a campaign stop in Kansas City, MO. During his speech, he mentioned a name you might have heard before:

…I think we need to increase domestic production. There are untapped oil reserves here in the United States, we should tap them.

But here’s the truth. Some of you have seen this ad from T. Boone Pickens. You know, he and I don’t agree on a lot of things, but we agree on one thing. If you’ve got three percent of the world’s oil reserves and you use 25 percent of the world’s oil, then you can’t drill your way out of the problem.

So, we want to do everything. But the main way that we are going to solve this energy crisis — and that is the main thing that is going to keep this airplane flying, and keep these jobs right here in the United States — is if we start developing a whole series of plans to create a clean energy future.

It means that we are investing in solar and wind…

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… and tapping nuclear energy and natural gas.

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