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Pickens calls for oil alternatives

26 July 2008

Texan oil tycoon T Boone Pickens has called for an end to dependency on foreign oil.

The corporate giant has claimed that the US should cut its foreign oil imports by over a third in just under ten years, according to USA Today.

Wind power and natural gas are to be touted as viable alternatives to oil, with the country's imports standing at 70 per cent.

A campaign to this effect is to be launched across America, with Texas being the focus of these designs. Sweetwater mayor Greg Wotham claimed that if Nolan County was a country by itself, it would rank sixth on a list of wind energy-producing nations.

Mr Pickens said: "We're paying $700 billion a year for foreign oil.

"It's breaking us as a nation and I want to elevate that question to the presidential debate, to make it the number one issue of the campaign this year."

This comes as former US vice-president Al Gore called on the US to acquire all its energy from renewable sources in the next decade.