T. BOONE DOCKS THE REPUBLICAN BALANCE SHEET

No one could have missed the ads being run by Texas oil man T. Boone Pickens with the (obvious) mantra that we can't "drill our way" out of our current energy problems and dependence on foreign oil. Mr. Pickens, who experienced an intellectual Renaissance at age 80 is of course favoring the use of the everlasting, inevitable Texas winds.
Speaking of Texas winds, and keeping with the Faux News principle that complete truths are far preferable to complete sentences, it was Mr. Pickens who at the cost of three million dollars financed the Swift Boat campaign against John Kerry which may have been the most significant (and fraudulent) ad of the 2004 political campaign. And it may have been the single most effective factor in keeping Mr. Bush in the White House. That noted, and it should be, T. Boone was becoming quite the critic of the Bush bunch. Many of us cannot help asking, what now, T. Boone? For one thing, the facts (this time) are on his side. Consider we in the United States now possess three percent of the world's oil reserves and are responsible for twenty percent of its consumption. Brings to mind a Bible verse, "You were weighed in the balance and found wanting," which may be what's moving T. Boone Pickens to balance the scales of his legacy having enabled a pretty unbalanced group of men to endanger our security, our economy, and quite possibly our planet. Hope he keeps his focus on swift winds, not swift boats this time around.
I suppose if you use Republican fuzzy math you could drill the 3% we have 10 times to exceed the 20% we use.