It's almost over!!!!!!!!

Of course I'm talking about the election campaign. I used to love this stuff and since there were no incumbents running I thought this one would be very interesting. Obama has lots of people excited and more interested than in most elections. McCain upped the anty when he chose that 'mavericky' girl Sarah Palin. What was he thinking??? It was a stupid Dan Quail type of move. Oh well as I said earlier it's almost over.

The best thing I've gotten out of this campaign was to see the start of a new energy initiative from the grass roots level---if you can call T. Boone Pickens a grass roots kind of guy. He has presented the Pickens Plan for energy self sufficiency. He's using his own money to fund the movement and seems to have some savvy tech people working on his sites and blogs. He's even traveling around the country and having town hall meetings to explain the plan and get feedback from the general public. If you are unfamiliar with the Pickens Plan I highly recommend that you go to his website and learn about it and even get involved on whatever level you want. Right now my only participation is to sign petitions to my representatives and e-mail my friends and relatives to join the "army". That's the Pickens Plan Army. He's trying to get 1.5 million people to sign the petitions and has done a great job virally since he's up to about 1.3 million.

This is a great opportunity to get Obama and McCain to produce their own energy plan or adopt the Pickens Plan. Pickens' plan is just common sense and a significant part of it can be acted upon immediately. For example, the first step would be to use natural gas as a fuel for cars. We have tons of it right here in the USA and the technology exists to make it practical. Since retrofitting gas stations with natural gas would take around 10 years he suggests starting with trucks and truck fleets. Trucks account for a large portion of gasoline usage. But they can either be retrofitted for natural gas or be mandated to use natural gas on new trucks. Truck company's can fill their fleets with it and truck stops can extend the geography for long haul truckers. While this is going on entrepeneurs such as Pickens or anyone else with balls can start working on solar cell farms and wind farms.

The Plan is practical and straight forward, it just gets me really excited. But again we need to put political pressure on our representatives and the new administration to help smooth the way with incentives. Pickens is 80 years old. He appears to be in good shape but he needs massive backup to get this movement going. Google search the Pickens Plan and see if you don't agree with me and want to get involved either with your computer or locally on your own. We can make this happen, I really believe it.......I'm just saying....let me know what you think!