I tried to embed the player so that you could watch the non-YouTube video straight from here, but it didn’t work and I didn’t want to futz with it until I got it figured out. So I just snagged it from YouTube and put it here.
Here’s the link http://www.pickensplan.com/ to the Pickens Plan website for more information. The video is a whopping 4:49, so if you can’t spend five minutes watching this then maybe you shouldn’t be reading my blog in the first place and go take care of your more important things.
Mr. Pickens lays out quickly how much oil that the U.S. is going through and how much we’ve increased consumption in that last 38 years. Then he lays out some ways for us to reduce our dependence on foreign oil and start pursuing alternative energy ideas; namely wind and natural gas. This also just reinforces the fact that we should have wind farms as far as the eye can see in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, Nebraska, and the Dokatas. Why some communities are fighting the idea of wind farms still baffles me.
Do everything that you can to help wind energy and natural gas energy out. Invest with them if you can, do whatever. See if they have a volunteer program. Stuff envelopes or something. Do something that matters.
