T. Boone Pickens reminded an audience in Oklahoma City that he met with then-Senator Barack Obama during the run-up to the Presidential election and, using a black Sharpie on a white tablecloth, sketched out the elements of the Pickens Plan.
According to Associated Press writer Jeff Latkze, Boone told the audience that now-President Obama got it, and still gets it:
“I know the man understands the problem and I know that he knows the solution, and I know that that’s the direction we’re headed and you are going to see this year the most progressive, monumental changes in energy policy in America you have ever seen.”
“It’s going to affect your life, mine, all of us in America.”
Speaking at the annual Sovereignty Symposium to an audience largely made up of native Americans, Boone urged them to make their own deals with developers of alternative energy – especially wind energy in Oklahoma. “I encourage you to look at it closely. Don’t try to stop it. Work out the best deal you can for yourself and let it happen,” he said.
According to the AP piece:
Pickens said that during his 90-minute meeting with Obama in August, the future president discussed his preference to use battery technology to power vehicles. Pickens said he explained to Obama that natural gas was the only American resource that could power an 18-wheeler.
The United States House of Representatives is currently considering H.R. 1835 – the NAT GAS Act – which will provide incentives to begin moving America’s commercial fleets – cars, light trucks and 18-wheelers – away from imported oil and onto cheap, domestic natural gas.
“Natural gas is cleaner, it’s cheaper, it’s ours and it’s abundant. Lucky break for us,” Pickens said. “Lucky break. A window of opportunity, and I’m convinced this administration will not let that window close without us getting through it. We are going to have this happen.”
To read the entire article on the Dallas Morning News website, click HERE.
— The Pickens Team