On a day when American politicians desperately tried to knock down the price of crude oil, energy investor T. Boone Pickens, Jr., added his two cents to the debate with his forecast of where the price of oil was going. Reuters’ Timothy Gardner wrote yesterday:

Oil prices will hit $300 a barrel in 10 years if the United States fails to reduce its dependence on foreign imports, billionaire oil investor T. Boone Pickens told U.S. lawmakers on Tuesday.

The United States imports nearly 70 percent of its oil and Pickens said the world’s top petroleum-consuming nation would import 80 percent in a decade if it does not aggressively tap its own natural gas and renewable resources.

“If we continue to drift, oil will hit $300 a barrel in 10 years,” Pickens testified at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee.

Source:

“Pickens sees $300 oil unless U.S. cuts crude imports”
Timothy Gardner
Reuters, July 22, 2008

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