T. Boone Pickens

[Video] – Drawing pie charts and crude maps on a whiteboard, Pickens shows how the United States’ need to import 70 percent (and rising) of the oil it requires has been a national disaster. Short term, Pickens believes we should drill everywhere we can. “But don’t stop there, because we must do everything.” That includes conservation, ethanol, nuclear and renewables.

His big idea? Harness the mighty wind that sweeps through his beloved Texas and Oklahoma