Robert Kennedy, Jr. joined T. Boone Pickens at a Town-Hall meeting in the U.S. Capitol for the staffs of U.S. Senators and U.S. Representatives.
Over 100 staffers attended the session which was started by Mr. Kennedy explaining why the Pickens Plan is so crucial to cutting down on carbon-based pollution. He pointed to countries from Iceland to Costa Rica and Brazil which have moved aggressively from carbon-based fuels to generate electricity and as a transportation fuel. Kennedy said those countries have enjoyed enormous economic growth by moving away from carbon-based economies.
Kennedy said that the wind and solar capacity of the United States – “which Boone Pickens has been talking so eloquently about” – can, with other non-carbon-based fuels, supply 100 percent of the electrical needs of the U.S. for the foreseeable future.
Mr. Kennedy also talked about the need to build a 21st century electrical grid to move energy from where it is produced by alternative means to where it is needed. He also talked about having such a “smart grid” which will be “so much more efficient that we will no longer need natural gas to ‘peak’ our electrical needs.”
He concluded, “That will free up our natural gas resources to power our entire transportation system” while the technology to create battery and hydrogen technology which will replace carbon-based fuels.
“I can’s say enough about the Pickens Plan and what T. Boone has done not only to move us away from carbon-based fuels and provide for America’s security.”
(More Coming)
— The Pickens team