In the run-up to the first Presidential debate of the 2012 election cycle at the University of Denver, T. Boone Pickens has published an op-ed in the Denver Post calling on the two candidates “to describe his plan for our energy security.”

Saying “an energy plan without action isn’t a plan – it’s a speech,” Pickens pointed out that we have been promised energy independence for the past 44 years by every major candidate in every Presidential election.

Pickens wrote:

“For four years, I have championed a bipartisan energy plan for America. Sadly, the most dangerous place to be is in Washington, D.C., with a bipartisan plan. We’ve seen bipartisan plans fail on debt reduction (like the Simpson-Bowles commission), and now on energy.”

Concluding his essay about energy security, Pickens wrote:

“We have the resources to get there. We are lacking the leadership and the will to get it done.”

To read the entire op-ed in the Denver Post, click HERE.

— The Pickens Team