Rock Star Power Voter Andrew Munn interviewed T. Boone Pickens guerilla style after his event at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. Fueled by a media blitz campaign of over $50 million, Pickens hopes to stir up a discussion around energy in this nation. Though we may not have $50 million, Power Voters around the nation are initiating hundreds of thousands of one-on-one conversations about moving our nation to a sustainable clean energy future, much like the one we had with Mr. T. Boone Pickens. Help us get the word out on what a clean energy future looks like for America. Get your family and friends to sign the pledge, cause we're working on creating change the only way we know how -- by mobilizing the grassroots.

At their keynote event during their "Green Homecoming," University of Michigan Students brought former-oil-baron-turned-wind-farmer, to speak about the Pickens "Plan." What Pickens gets right is that we need a real conversation around energy and reducing our dependence on foreign oil.

While the Pickens "plan" is boldly calls to reduce our oil imports by 38% by shifting to natural gas as a bridge fuel for vehicles, the plan is riddled with pitfalls and places a tremendous burden on American taxpayers. The plan calls for, amongst many other things, spending over $1 trillion in taxpayer funds to invest in Pickens' grandiose wind farm proposals for the Texas Panhandle and the Canadian border to displace the use of Natural Gas, which then he argues can be used to fuel vehicles. His plan does not support building more fuel efficient vehicles and largely leaves out investment in promising plug-in hybrids.

It is clear that American families are hurting at the pumps and need a sound energy policy that weans us off our dependence on oil and other fossil fuels and transitions our nation to a clean energy future that makes our communities safer, cleans up the air we breathe, and creates millions of jobs across the nation.