An Energy Town Hall to discuss The Pickens Plan with T. Boone Pickens Founder, Chairman and CEO BP Capital, L.P. WebCast
January 06, 2009 Shell Oil Auditorium, Janice and Robert McNair Hall, Rice University	Event is by Invitation Only; Limited Seating
Note: After the event, T. Boone Pickens will sign copies of his book "The First Billion is the Hardest" in Baker Hall's Doré Commons (across the courtyard from McNair Hall). Attendees are encouraged to bring their own copy for his signature. A limited number of books will be available for purchase courtesy of Brazos Bookstore.

About the Event

The Pickens Plan proposes measures to utilize U.S. wind and natural gas to build a bridge to the future—a blueprint to reduce foreign oil dependence by harnessing domestic energy alternatives and buying time for the United States to develop even greater new technologies. The plan calls for generating 22% of our electricity needs through wind power and using the displaced natural gas for transportation fuel. According to plan estimates, a combination of these domestic energies could replace 30%-50% of U.S. foreign-oil imports over the next 10 years.

Presentations

Introduction
Ambassador Edward P. Djerejian, the founding director of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University To be Posted after Event


T. Boone Pickens, Founder, Chairman and CEO BP Capital, L.P. To be Posted after Event

This event is generously sponsored by the Energy Forum of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy in conjunction with the Energy & Environmental Systems Institute, the
Richard E. Smalley Institute for Nanoscale Science and Technology and the
Center for the Study of Environment and Society at Rice University