Oilman T. Boone Pickens is continuing is campaign to educate the U.S. about the importance of a plan that would reduce our dependence on imported foreign oil.
Pickens and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm appeared together at the second day of the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Mackina Policy Conference. There, he pointed out that though the U.S. accounts for 4 percent of the world’s population, it consumes 25 percent of the world’s oil. Worse, 70 percent of the oil we consume in the U.S. is foreign, imported oil.
Both participated in a two hour session on renewable energy alternatives to oil. Pickens and Granholm promoted the use of wind and solar power, battery development for electric cars, and more use of compressed natural gas. They also emphasized that more production of renewable energies would create more jobs.
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