Have you seen the Pickens’ Plan video? If you haven’t, get over to the site and watch it now (it’s about five mins long). You can see the video here. You’ll find that the plan is ambitious and certainly meant for purpose of someone making a profit, but there are some real gems in there. Now, I don’t know if the directions that T. Boone wants to take us in are totally correct, but at least they get the discussion going. The one issue I’d like to focus on is the outflow of American money that goes toward bringing foreign oil to our shores. He estimates that the dollar figure on our oil imports, 70% of what we use, is 700 billion annually. Question: Is our economy in trouble right now? I don’t know what feelings you’ve been having lately, but frankly I’m a little scared about where we are going. There are some experts that even say we could be headed for a depression–let’s hope they are wrong. The point I’m trying to make is that we would be in a better situation, on the order of billions of dollars, if we could get that money to stay here at home. Some exports are fine, but c’mon, not to the point where it cripples us financially. We’ve got to pull together to quit this oil addiction and get our economy back on track. How do we do that? There are many different ways that we’ll be talking about, yet first we all have to agree that investing in ourselves is the key. That money needs to go back into our economy.