Boone Pickens joined Texas Governor Rick Perry in addressing a two-day meeting of the Texas Workforce Commission. Gov. Perry pointed to a decision by the Caterpillar company to move to Texas to “build a manufacturing facility there that will create 1,400 jobs,” according to the Austin American-Statesman.
Boone, of course, “used the opportunity to promote his plan for using wind power to generate electricity, replacing natural gas that now generates more than 20 percent of the country’s electrical power.”
“natural gas, he said, should be used instead to fuel cars and trucks, which would, he contends, slash the nation’s dependence on foreign oil by more than a third,” the American-Statesman reported.
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