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newsworthy
Boone Pickens continues
to stump for natural gas,
wind energy
T. Boone Pickens, head of the energy-ori-ented investment firm BP (Boone Pickens)
Capital Management, sees the world’s pending oil crisis in pretty stark black-and-white
terms.
“We are dependent on the enemy for oil,”
Pickens said in Dallas during his keynote
address at the ninth annual shipper symposium sponsored by Transplace, a Frisco,
Texas-based third-party logistics company.
“The enemy” in Pickens’ eyes is the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting
Countries (OPEC). Pickens went so far as to
assert that oil purchased from OPEC finds
its way to Taliban forces loyal to the al
Qaeda terrorist organization.
“I don’t think [OPEC nations] are friends
of ours,” he said. “They have oil, and we
want it, so we naturally do business with
each other. But they are not our friends.”
Pickens was at the symposium as part of
the ongoing push for his “Pickens Plan,”
which calls for investing $1 trillion in wind
farms that would eventually replace natural
gas as a primary energy source. That would
free up natural gas supplies to power trucks
and other heavy-duty equipment. The over-
arching objective is to wean the United
States from its dependence on foreign oil.
Pickens believes the United States has a
100- to 200-year supply of natural gas due
in part to recent successes in developing
large fields of shale gas. “Natural gas is
cheaper, cleaner, and more abundant than
oil,” said Pickens.
Pickens noted that many municipalities
have begun to switch their fleets of buses,
garbage trucks, and other vehicles to natural
gas. However, he said the freight transport
sector must buy in to the concept for it to
truly gain traction.
Pickens’ plan has been dismissed by some
as too costly as well as logistically and technologically infeasible. It received substantial
media exposure during the 2008 spike in oil
prices, but fell off the radar after oil prices
plunged in the 2008–09 downturn. ;
