T. Boone Pickens is awesome

T. Boone Pickens, author of "The First Billion Is The Hardest", is the chairman of BP Capital Management, the company that thrives on oil's success. He is awesome because he doesn't just stay seated in his luxurious throne of wealth; he is now making sure that America starts using natural gas instead of the oil we get from the Middle East and other countries. He says it would be cheaper, cleaner, easier to obtain (because it's not foreign, it's from America), and it would be fantastic for the environment.

Now specifically, he wants trucks to primarily use natural gas. He says that people plan to make electric cars later on, but points out that trucks won't be able to run on electricity. Trucks, therefore, can run on natural gas, and our regular cars can run on a mix of electricity and natural gas.

I am absolutely thrilled with what Pickens is trying to do. He obviously isn't the rich snob you'd expect an oil company to be lead by. He feels he has a responsibility to make a better future for America. He truly believes that America needs to "break [its] addiction to foreign oil". If I could help him, I absolutely would. On the Daily Show with Jon Stewart (a great show that I very much enjoy), Stewart basically said that he loved Pickens' ideas.


http://www.pickensplan.com/act/