More than 4,300 people showed up to hear T. Boone Pickens explain the Pickens Plan to his alma mater at Oklahoma State University.
According to the Daily O’Collegian – the OSU daily campus newspaper – “In Pickens’ fifteenth town hall meeting nationwide, OSU had the largest turnout with a crowd of 4,300 people.”
In the article by reporters Gabby Hutchings and Valerie Pritchard Boone laid out the principles which have driven the Pickens Plan Army for the past 18 months.
“Today we’re importing 67 percent of our oil,” Pickens said. “If we don’t do anything in 10 years, we’ll be importing 75 percent and paying $300 a barrel for oil. We won’t have health care or education because there won’t be anything to go to those. This has nothing to do with politics; it’s about us. It’s our problem, and we’ve got to solve it.”
Boone talked about the need to expand the nation’s wind power capability. The reporters wrote:
Oklahoma is working to use wind as a viable source of energy for the state and hopes to expand to eventually service the whole country. Oklahoma has a team of researchers working on the Oklahoma Wind Power Initiative to set up wind farms statewide.
Boone called on OSU to get going with energy efficiency and alternative energy projects which are already on the drawing boards.
Ever Oklahoma State’s biggest booster, Boone said,
“There’s not going to be anyone who’s going to get ahead of OSU. We’ll be in the game, I can promise you that.”
To read the entire article about Boone at OSU (and the related articles) click HERE.
— The Pickens Team