On December 27, during what is called the “Meet the Press Roundtable” New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg made the Pickens Plan case by talking about the need for energy independence.
This discussion was in the context of the failed attack on an airliner on Christmas day, but Bloomberg echoed what Boone Pickens has been saying for the past 17 months: We are funding both sides of this war and we are transferring our wealth to people who don’t like us very much.
Here is the section of the discussion on the point of importing too much foreign oil:
Mayor Bloomberg: [I]t is the battle on the battlefield, but it’s also the battle on the economic field. And what’s missing here is a discussion, believe it or not, of the environment. And it has nothing to do with global warming down the road, it is today.
We are transferring our wealth to countries around the world who don’t agree with us and, in many cases, are funding the very terrorists that we’re sending our young men and women out to fight. And sometimes they don’t come back or they don’t come back alive.
We can’t keep doing this. We’ve got to get, somehow or other, energy independence. And so regardless of whether you’re a greenie or not, the bottom line is we cannot keep funding our enemies.
To read the transcript of the entire panel discussion, click HERE.
— The Pickens Team