T. Boone Pickens has already met personally with both presidential candidates to discuss the Pickens Plan. For those of you yet unfamiliar with the plan the main points are 1. replace natural gas used for electricity production with wind turbines and 2. use natural gas for transportation. It is a solid, well thought out plan that can save America hundreds of billions on foreign oil imports.

One of the main points T. Boone discussed with Sarah Palin was the huge impact alone that could be made by converting over the road trucks to run on natural gas instead of diesel. Simply converting one million trucks to natural gas would reduce our imports of foreign diesel by 40%.

Sarah Palin Meeting with T. Boone Pickens to discuss the Pickens Plan

Boone says he spoke with Palin for nearly an hour, but she of course gave no commitment. She appeared impressed that the Pickens Plan has nearly reached it’s goal of 1,000,000 supporters. I’m surprised she wasn’t more enthusiastic about the project to replace oil with natural gas. After all Palin’s pipeline project sounds like it needs all the help it can get!

While Replacing Oil would like to see us move entirely away from fossil fuels altogether we are a big supporter of the Pickens Plan for one very important reason. It’s is the only plan that can significantly reduce America’s dependance on foreign oil quickly. Allow T.Boone himself to elaborate: