WE CAN'T DRILL OUR WAY OUT OF THIS, Pickens Plan

Energy Quotes

"Well we can conserve our way out of this problem, all we have to do is conserve. We don't have to produce anymore power. VP Cheney

On California...

"They've got a whole complex of problems that are caused by relying on conservation and not doing anything about the supply side of the equation." VP Cheney

"It's unfortunate that Vice President Cheney is so grossly misinformed about California's
agreesive program to build new power plants." Governor Gray Davis

"Clearly, the cheapest megawatt this summer is the megawatt of energy we don't have to
produce." Governor Gray Davis

"Which bills would you prefer, "House Bills, Senate Bills, Utility Bills or Dollar Bills." Al Boek

"We produce NEGAWATTS, these are units of electric power that no one had to fire-up and burn natural gas to generate, because some informed person or company, somewhere took
conservation action." Al Boek

Yes, there is another energy crisis in California and this time the entire nation is involved.

Nearly thirty years ago, several of my associates and I created a company I named American Energy Conservation.

We went on to market, sell and install thousands of energy conservation projects through out
the state of California. We also addressed the energy production side of the equation by installing thousands of solar systems statewide as well.

Recently Nobel Prize Laureate and former Vice President Mr. Al Gore created a campaign and an organization http://wecansolveit.org . Mr. Gore has issued a warning, many as you know,
on global warming its harmful effects to the planet and the need to replace our dependency on
oil and other fossil fuels. He has also issued a call to action with goal of our country becoming
100% free of these fuels. Is he a big dreamer, maybe. Can it be done? Yes.

In the following days and post I would like to propose what I call The American Energy Conservation Group Plan to my readers and challenge you, to find something wrong with
the plan we started on nearly 30 years ago.

Please feel free to include your comments and or suggestions. I will not moderate them, however anyone getting out of line, will have their post removed and my ex-brother-in-law,
a fighter pilot, will bomb your house.