Here is an interesting story I recently found out about - One of the richest men in Texas, T. Boone Pickens, who made his billions in oil is making a bold statement for us to stop our dependency to oil !!

Pickens says it's time to stop our addiction to oil and so he is planning to create the world's largest wind farm (investing his own money) ~ His next project will be solar ~ His long term plans would place the wind and solar farms from Texas up to Canada ~ It seems the plains have the most wind and sun ... His wind farms will start in Texas ~

I quote Pickens:
"America is in a hole and it's getting deeper every day. We import 70% of our oil at a cost of $700 billion a year...

I've been an oil man all my life, but this is one emergency we can't drill our way out of. But if we create a new renewable energy network, we can break our addiction to foreign oil.

On January 20, 2009, a new President gets sworn in. If we're organized, we can convince Congress to make major changes towards cleaner, cheaper and domestic energy resources."

Here is more on the Pickens wind project from Carol Gulyas, June 8th, 2008 from Wind Energy:

It will be the largest in the world, he reckons, at 4,000 megawatts. It will provide enough power for 1,300,000 homes. It’s a $10 billion dollar project from which he plans a 15%-25% profit.

Asked why he is investing in wind now, Pickens replied:

“For a number of years I’ve watched the wind turbines develop — and I feel like it’s time for it. I think that oil has peaked at 85 million barrels in the world. We’ve got to develop other forms of energy — wind, I think solar will be next..."

Construction of Pickens' project would begin in 2010 ~

May we continue to find alternative ways to solve our energy crisis and not be prisoners to oil ~ Blessings to all ! ~