T. Boone Pickens spoke to the Lancaster Chamber of Commerce & Industry annual dinner and, according to P.J. Reilly, writing in the Lancaster.com website talked about the value of the New Energy Army:
It wasn’t until the past year, when he’s garnered the support of 1.6 million citizen members of his New Energy Army, that those lawmakers started listening to him, he said.
Boone told the 2,500 people at the dinner that “But this rich guy from Texas is a hell of a lot more powerful with a million people behind him than he ever was before.”
Pennsylvania is home to a major portion of the Marcellus shale deposit which, Boone said, will be comparable to California during the gold rush of the 1840s. “You are probably going to have the largest gas field in the United States,” he said.
According to the article:
The key that will open the door to the rush for natural gas in the United States, according to Pickens, is passage of the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2009, also known as H.R. 1835, which is currently under consideration in Washington.
H.R. 1835 has 75 bi-partisan co-sponsors. A companion bill, S. 1408 is also making its way through the U.S. Senate.
Boone also talked about wind and solar energy as part of a total plan to decrease America’s dependence on foreign oil:
While this fuel revolution is under way, Pickens said the nation also needs to ramp up its efforts to generate more electricity using wind and the sun as part of a 50-year energy plan that emphasizes renewable resources.
“We have never had an energy plan before,” he said. “We have never had a plan that looked out 50 years, but that is about to change.”
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— The Pickens Team