Needlenose

Seems like everybody is coming out of the woodwork nowadays with a plan for U.S. energy independence ‘within 10 years’ based on renewable energy.

Oilman & corporate raider T. Boone Pickens has spent a bundle recently on TV & news ads pushing his Pickens Plan. I haven’t had a chance to go through it yet, but I’m going to guess that it involves all the ‘usual corporate suspects’ still sending us monthly bills for power.

Former VP and failed Dem Prez candidate Al Gore is announcing his own 10-year renewable energy plan today. Hopefully I’ll get some time this weekend to pore through the wonkery.

Kinda reminds me of that other crazy Texan, Ross Perot, during one of the Prez debates back in the day: “Lot of plans out there…just gotta pick one!” That’s the key ingredient missing – serious Federal leadership on the matter. Currently both Dem & Repug ‘Congressionals’ seem obsessed with the long established energy policy: giving rim jobs to Big Oil in exchange for campaign contributions.

Stumble it!

Tags: Al Gore, alternate energy, T. Boone Pickens

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 17th, 2008 at 10:10 am by greenboy and is filed under Energy. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.