You are absolutely right that the need for energy independence has not gone away. The need is increasing exponentially if we are ever to get our economic house back in order. The article is an excellent one.

Today the one man who is working effective on this issue in a bipartisan manner is T. Boone Pickens. He has been the primary champion of well-thought out plans for energy independence starting with the development of wind power (he has invested over one billion of his own money there and led a syndicate that has invested over five billion with much more to come). He has been the champion of wind power, using natural gas to fuel heavy trucks and upgrading the nation's electric grid. That Boone Pickens has been the bipartisan/nonpartisan leader of this effort is remarkable considering that he has always been a staunch conservative and a supporter of the Republican Party.

At the recent energy summit meeting attended by such luminaries as Presidents Obama and Clinton, VP Gore, the leaders of congress and the appropriate committee chairs, Boone Picken was one of the few people fully participating that actually understood the energy business. The degree to which Boone has worked for the interests of America and ignored party lines was best illustrated by the Chairman of the House Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee - Congressman Ed Markey of MA. Congressman Markey is quite liberal, even by Massachusetts standards. Yet he said, "I thought I would never say this, but I am in 100% agreement with Boone Pickens on this issue."

Energy independence is an absolute need for this country. Right now, the only effective leader that is respected by everyone is Boone Pickens. He has acquired his influence through an army of people who support the idea of making us free of dependence on foreign oil. I am not a joiner, but have joined his army and am working for an effective nonpartisan solution to our energy problem. The people in this part of Talk of the Villages are politically aware and recognize that the fact that Boone Pickens could have hundreds of thousands of e-mails dumped on the desks of the other participants in this summit made him and his ideas important. Without this, we would never have had a chance of the need for the development of wind and solar power, the creation of a new national grid and the beginning of the acceptance of the idea that we really need nuclear power being considered.

Please come with me and join Pickens Army at pickensplan.com/. At this point we may not be able to do much to leave our grandchildren free of debt, but we can still work to make them energy independent and thereby provide route for getting out from under.