Pickens Plan Talking Points

– Today is Energy Independence Day and the One-Year Anniversary of the Pickens Plan.

- The goal of the Pickens Plan is to make us safer here at home and create millions of high paying new jobs by ending our country’s dependence on foreign oil.

- I believe this is critical to the future of our country and future generations.

- The basics of the Plan are for 20% of our nation’s electricity to come from wind power and to divert excess natural gas to the transportation grid. We currently import nearly 70% of our oil from overseas.

- HR 1835 or the ‘NAT GAS Act of 2009’ is in front of Congress right now with over 70 bi-partisan Co-Sponsors in the House. It would provide incentives for natural gas to become a viable transportation fuel alternative to foreign oil.

- The Senate version of HR 1835 is being introduced today and Boone is in Washington for the announcement.

- Call your congressman and senator today to ask for their support of this bill, HR 1835 that will help get us off of foreign oil.

- This bill stands to create a number of new jobs at a time we need it most.

- Boone is dead on with this plan! We do have enough natural gas. In fact the Potential Gas Agency says there’s enough natural gas in the U.S. for every man, woman and child to drive a car for the next 120 years.

- This plan is also the right choice for the environment. Natural gas burns 23% cleaner than gasoline and 60% more than diesel fuel plus it’s ¼ the cost of foreign oil.

- And if you took just one 18 wheeler off the road and replaced with a natural gas rig, it’s the environmental equivalent of taking 325 cars off the road.

- Learn more and sign up at www.pickensplan.com.

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