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Thank you, Boone, for cutting through the status quo response of the other gentleman on the panel. His prefered response of a "market driven" energy policy is truly just a repeat of the last 40 years. The idea that a low price on foreign oil will fix everything is so shortsighted, I'm surprised he was really serious when he said it. Just because low oil prices from other countries offer affordable gas prices today, the coming cost of not converting to sustainable and renewable energy will bankrupt us all. This does not take into account the extreme cost of America's national security. We have got to shift the balance of power. While I am not in favor of extreme government oversight, there must be a holistic American energy plan that creates a unified stream of actions that result in a successful outcome. A market driven format that the other gentleman favors does get the national power grid upgraded and replaced uniformly, it does not create fluid interactions between various types of new energy and it does not encourage exploration of promising alternatives where the return is not instantaneous. There has to be a balance between government oversight and free market enterprise to make this work and work quickly. Boone, you are a great example of this! Putting your own money into the development and driving the government to create a workable policy. The nation gets the best sources of alternative energy and you get a return for your considerable investment. Everyone wins!! Keep up the great work and the army will keep pushing The Plan!

T. Boone pickens won that debate hands down...

I agree with Bruce Allen.

Moore clowns, please. :-) Pat Jack

Send Mr. Steven Moore a copy of the 60 Minutes program (Aired on 12/6/08 in Hawaii). containing interviews of the CEO

Stephen Moore's argument is purely about ideology. The effect of his argument is that he would have us rely on private corporations to put future stability over short-term profits. Neither corporations or government has put future stability over the short term. Though it may be Moore's goal, utopian laissez-faire capitalism is not the goal of corporations, if it ever was. Corporations want to own government; it's cheaper than having real competition. Look at the going rate for a senate seat these days. Buying government is cheap! Moore has placed his faith in the idea of a purely capitalist market that has never actually existed, and when the markets fail, he blames government. Sounds like politics as usual. While there is substantial evidence that government is indeed a large part of the cause of these failures, I don't trust the corporations (especially those with the most market share) to behave like patriotic capitalists, and like any good investor, I want to diversify. That means a solution that involves people, their government, and public and private corporations. Moore wants us to focus on lowering the price of oil, once again without any real power to do so. He says this worked well in the 80's, but in fact it was this very neutering of the Department of Energy which killed the OTEC project which was on its way to being nationalized. Had this not happened, the goal of the Pickens Plan would have been achieved long ago. For more information, Google "OTEC avatoy".

I'm tired of the vapid free market offer Stephen Moore offers. The problem is that there is no accounting for the true cost of oil. The costs of waging war and the damage to our environment does not appear on oil company balance sheets. What would a gallon of gas cost if they were? $20 a gallon? More? Until these economic externalities are accounted for we will continue to make decisions based on flawed information.