The Pickens Plan

Gas prices got you down? Tired of "fighting wars over foreign oil?" Have you ever heard of T. Boone Pickens?

On Fox and Friends this morning Pickens said that for the last 40 years Congress (both parties) has failed miserably when it comes to energy policy. He's got that right (though in fairness, I think virtually every energy proposal Republicans have made in the last 40 years has been blocked by Democrats.

Drill for domestic oil? Democrats say no
Build more nuclear power plants? Democrats say no
Build more dams? Democrats say no
Use more coal? Democrats say no

In the Democratic world environmentalism trumps everything. And now we're paying over $4 per gallon and some say it could go to $5 before summer is over.

Anyway, Pickens is an oil man (worth 4 billion dollars) who has an environmentally friendly plan to get off oil. He's certainly got my attention. Please check out PickensPlan.Com and watch his short video.

Kennedy dumping diesel fuel

Democrats are champions of environmentalism. Apparently, however, that doesn't apply to Ted Kennedy, one of the members of the "most ethical Congress in history."

Just after Kennedy and his guests left his yacht, a photograper asked a crewman about diesel fuel that had been dumbed from the yacht into Nantucket Sound. The crewman said the fuel had gotten into the bilge and that he had been told to dump it! (See NewsMax for the story).