Boone and Gov. Granholm speak at Michigan Conference

T. Boone Pickens and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm spoke at the Detroit Regional Chamber’s annual Mackinac Policy Conference on the growing need for America to reduce its dependence on foreign oil.

According to the Detroit Free Press, Granholm said Michigan will have lost one million jobs in the first decade of the 21st century.

Both Pickens and Granholm pushed wind and solar energy, battery development for electric cars and more use of compressed natural gas as ways to reduce America’s oil consumption.

Pitching the Pickens Plan, Boone

skewered national leaders for failing to adopt a meaningful energy policy during the past 40 years, as foreign imports rose from 24% of U.S. oil consumption in 1970 to nearly 70% today. “We have to get off oil from the enemy,” he said.

To read the entire article in the Free Press, click HERE

— The Pickens Team