In an article written by Associated Press reporter Alan Sayre, Boone Pickens told a meeting of the Southern Growth Policies Board that “Americans concerned about national security are ready for the United States to adopt a strong policy that will wean the country off imported oil.”
Boone also said that if the U.S. continues to spend trillions of dollars on imported oil over the next decade, little else can be accomplished.
“If we go another 10 years without an energy plan, you will not have health care or education,” Pickens said. “You will be busted.”
Pointing out the availability and feasibility of using natural gas as a major transportation fuel, “Pickens said that by converting 350,000 vehicles to natural gas, foreign oil consumption would be cut by 5 percent,” Sayre wrote.
There are 10 million gas-fired vehicles in the world – some made by U.S. automakers – but only 142,000 are in the United States, Pickens said.
“The technology is there,” Pickens said. “Don’t worry about the infrastructure. Build the equipment and it will come.”
Pickens said he wanted to use any domestic energy resource available in a national plan. “I’m for anything American. I’m against foreign oil.”
“We’ve never been tasked before to have an energy policy because we’ve had cheap oil,” he said.
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— The Pickens Team