A lot has been made of T. Boone Pickens building hundreds of windmills in the wind corrider running from Texas up to Oklahoma as if that were the sole answer to the enegy crisis. Pickens has said we can't drill our way out the crisis and that was construed by some meaning "Don't bother with new drilling." Not so.
Pickens told CNN that neither Presidential candidate has gone far enough in advocating the exploitation of our domestic oil resources (HT: Power Line):
BLITZER: What about drilling offshore? There's a debate. As you know, McCain says, yes, go ahead and drill off the coasts of Florida and California. Obama says, no. You're an oilman. What do you say?PICKENS: OK. McCain says, OK off the East and West Coasts. I say East, West Coast and ANWR. Get it all. I mean, to get off of foreign oil, that is the enemy. Get everything you can get. You cannot drill your way out of it. But you're drilling, and whatever you are able to find and put into the domestic system will help us. But you -- you aren't going to be able to find enough to take care of all the imports that we have.
BLITZER: What about nuclear?
PICKENS: Nuclear, fine, do it. Anything in America, do it, and get off of foreign oil.
McCain is for drilling offshore and for nuclear power. Obama opposes both. ANWR should be added to the drilling program. Pickens is right: Use them all, drilling, wind, solar, nuclear, biofuels, coal. And if the Rocky Mountains shale oil yields the estimated 500 to 800 billion barrels, domestic oil can replace all foreign overseas oil. (Our friends Canada and Mexico are solid suppliers, though Mexico's fields appear to be in decline.)
