Pickens Plan
I signed up for this. Mr. Pickens is the only individual who has had the creativity, intelligence, and guts to propose a sensible, workable, and largely unpolitical energy plan. But it won't happen unless you and I sign off on this, and contact our government representatives.
posted by Jim at 10:51 PM
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Link is gone, but I like Pickens - at least he is proposing something and trying to act on it.
Go to his sight and sign on...just Google:
"Pickens Plan"
hey, Charlie, see that little url on the video: pickensplan.com? ;-)
first: we need to let the market work on this like it's starting to do. would be better if we didn't subsidize gas and roads so heavily.
i may have said this for, but independence from foreign oil is not the goal. it's a form of isolationism that we don't need. we need to be better engaged with the world, not less.
natural gas is great. let's ramp it up, by all means.
wind plan sounds good. a lot of the land is not particularly arable anyway.
3:55: first check: ok, what's the cost of all that wind generation (new infrastructure) and conversion of cars to natural gas (including refueling infrastructure)? surely that would cut into his $300B savings.
not to mention his premise: can we really not handle buying foreign oil? we have the number one economy in the world. sure, we're a little depressed right now, not least of all from the housing correction. but is $700B for foreign oil per year really unaffordable and undesirable?
Good thoughts Sean.
There is definitely a downside to Picken's plan. I have also heard that wind generated power is hardly transferable which also diminishes it's usefulness.
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