T. Boone Pickens Goes to Washington
I promised everybody an update on the status of T. Boone Pickens and his plan. The latest news is that T. Boone Pickens met with the the U.S. Senate Homeland and Security and Government Affairs Committee on Tuesday.
He is pushing his ideas about how Wind energy can reduce our huge $700 billion dependency on foreign oil. An interesting comment he made was that natural gas could be used in other places instead of fueling power plants throughout the U.S.
This trip to Congress really makes it seem like he is really genuine about moving our country to using alternative energy. I’m not sure how much he really cares about the environment, but his intentions seem to be to keep more profits here in America. Regardless of his intentions, I think it’s great that he is really pushing this idea. Hopefully Congress listens closely to what he had to say and they take action now. The sooner we can start to invest heavily in alternate sources of energy, the more environmentally friendly this country will become.
In related news. Texas has just passed a plan to allow Electric Transmission Texas LLC (ETT) along with several subsidiaries to invest in transmission lines. The $4.9 billion plan will increase the number of electric transmissions lines to carry wind power from Western Texas to the rest of the state. Texas is currently the leading state in America in Wind Energy production. The major problem is they do not have enough transmission lines to transport the energy produced from the wind farms currently there and are sometimes forced to even turn off some of the wind turbines. They are setting up the building blocks to have wind energy as one of the state’s primary energy sources.
