It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.

By October 9 2008 the price plummeted back below $85 per barrel. On January 22 2007 Pickens donated $5 million to The University of Texas at Dallas to fund educational and research initiatives in the area of brain science. At age 12 Pickens delivered newspapers.

4 billion he is ranked by Forbes as the 328th-richest person in America and ranked 879th in the world. (born May 22 1928) known as T. Thomas Boone Pickens Jr.