Free gas. Everyone’s using it as a promotional tool so why not the Florida Lottery too? Yes, that’s right, the Florida Lottery’s newest game, Summer Cash will run for 8 weeks this summer. A $5 ticket buys you a chance to win $250,000 first prize, free gas for life second prize or gas for a year as third prize.
Summer Cash will draw every Wednesday between July 9 and August 27, 2008. The gas prizes are based on $50 per week and the gas for life prize can be paid over a minimum of 20 years or the winner’s lifetime. Either prize will be paid by gas card unless you choose the cash optionYou do have the option to choose the minimum value of this prize instead which would be $52,000.
T.Boone Pickens announced today his energy plan for the Unites States. Pickens says his plan will reduce American dependence on foreign oil by 33% because his company Mesa Power will focus on renewable energy, specifically wind power as an alternative energy source.
Wind energy is a stable supply of energy, renewable, clean and eco-friendly. Mesa Power, one of the companies Pickens owns is investing $2 billion in a multibillion-dollar plan to build a wind farm in Pampa, Texas which is being billed as the world’s largest wind farm.
The plan calls for companies to take advantage of the “wind corridor,” that stretches from the Canadian border to West Texas, harnessing energy from wind turbines built in this corridor.
T. Boone Pickens, a billionaire from Texas, thinks his plan could be implemented in 10 years with approval from Congress and private investors footing the bill.
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