Rani’s NewsCloud Journal http://rani.newscloud.com A NewsCloud community weblog Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:05:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.3-2.2.1 en Oil man pushes Wind Power http://rani.newscloud.com/2008/07/09/oil-man-pushes-wind-power/ http://rani.newscloud.com/2008/07/09/oil-man-pushes-wind-power/#comments Wed, 09 Jul 2008 18:05:19 +0000 rani http://rani.newscloud.com/2008/07/09/oil-man-pushes-wind-power/ Did you see this article written by T. Boone Pickins?  “Each year we import more and more oil. In 1973, the year of the infamous oil embargo, the United States imported about 24% of our oil. In 1990, at the start of the first Gulf War, this had climbed to 42%. Today, we import almost 70% of our oil.”  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121556087828237463.html?mod=opinion_main_commentaries

I thought he was going to push for domestic drilling, and surprised me with his advocacy of wind power.

]]> http://rani.newscloud.com/2008/07/09/oil-man-pushes-wind-power/feed/