Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens will try to sell his plan to reduce the nation’s dependence on foreign oil to an Albuquerque crowd next week.
Pickens is holding a town-hall meeting on Thursday at 10:30 a.m. in the ballroom at the Albuquerque Convention Center, 401 2nd Street NW. Doors open at 9:30 a.m. for the event, which is open to the public.
Tickets aren’t required, but seating is limited. Organizers ask that people planning to attend RSVP to aliesharuiz@yahoo.com.
Pickens, according to a flyer advertising the event, “will discuss his plan and take questions from the audience.”
Pickens has unveiled a $58 million media campaign to promote the Pickens Plan to replace the energy in America’s power grid that comes from domestic natural gas with wind power so the natural gas can be instead used in automobiles. That, he says, will cut the nation’s dependence on foreign oil by more than a third.
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 Texas. He claims the massive shift that could cut our spending on foreign oil from $700 million to $400 million each year could happen in less than a decade if all sides work together.