By Heath Haussamen
It’s no secret that, for two or three decades, the powers-that-be in
As a result, the emergency that could have been avoided has arrived. Our dependence on foreign oil is wreaking havoc on Americans’ pocketbooks. Because some of the money we’re spending goes to nations that sponsor terror, our oil addiction is helping sponsor terrorism. And conflicts we’re fighting to protect “American interests” — including foreign oil — from that terrorism are contributing to the spread of anti-American sentiment around the globe.
We’ve dug ourselves a deep hole, and the trouble is compounded by our ailing health care system, our crumbling infrastructure, the home-mortgage and other lending predicaments, a broken immigration system and other problems. Because it’s an election year,
But an Apollo-like program is what we need to solve the energy crisis, which is one of the most serious threats
Enter T. Boone Pickens, an oilman who has the wisdom to understand that we can’t drill our way out of this problem, the guts to stick his neck out and the money to ensure his message is heard.
Pickens has unveiled a $58 million media campaign to promote the Pickens Plan to replace the energy in
In addition to the money he’s spending on the media campaign, Pickens is backing up his words with plans to build the largest wind farm in the world in
Pickens’ action is a breath of fresh air in the midst of an election season in which congressional Democrats and Republicans are busy debating the merits of two ideas that won’t solve the energy crisis — increased drilling and more regulation of speculation.
The longer we delay the implementation of an Apollo-like program, the more difficult it will be to break our addition to foreign oil and the more uncertain the road ahead will become. We should have done this in the 1970s. We have to do this now.