We hitched up the T. Boone Express for a lunch speech to the first annual Oklahoma Wind Conference in Oklahoma City.
Now, anybody who thinks this economy has damped down the entrepreurial spirit out here in the Midwest, needed to be at this conference. There were well over 1,000 people meeting with all parts of the wind energy business – from consultants to established wind companies.
I know there’s a lot of interest in wind and natural gas among you members of the New Energy Army. But one of the tests of whether we’re keeping the energy issue alive is to see how the press is covering us. Well, I’ll tell you, I think every news camera from Wichita Falls to Tulsa must have shown up to cover our press conference.
So, the Pickens Plan is still important news and a lot of the credit goes to you for your hard work in keeping the problem of foreign oil on the front burner where ever you live.
The speech itself was packed. In fact, my guys told me that there were over 1,000 people in the hall plus overflow crowds in the hallway outside and in the exhibition areas where they could hear me over speakers, but they couldn’t see me.
At the Oklahoma City Convention Center they have those big screens so the folks in the back can see you.
This is getting to the point where I think a bunch of the folks I’m talking to have heard pieces of the speech before, so I try to bring in new stories and new ways of saying it.
But it always comes down to this: The Whiteboard.
I was afraid people who were more than two tables back wouldn’t be able to see it, but the camera followed me over to the whiteboard so I went ahead and showed them the deal. Here, I’m listing the sources of domestic energy:
Oil
Coal
Natural Gas
Bio-fuels
Hydro
Nuclear
Wind
Solar
And as you know – I’m for anything American.
Then the T. Boone Express took off for Washington, DC. I had a discussion about energy with Stephen Moore of the Wall Street Journal which was attended by about 100 Washington-based journalists.
If you want to watch the C-SPAN coverage of this debate, click HERE
Tomorrow. More meetings, more events. More moving America away from foreign oil!
— Boone