The Texas oil man with the plan

Well everyone is talking about T. Boone Pickens, the Texas Oilman with a plan… His plan is to cut our dependency on foreign oil with wind and natural gas. He’s been running ads during national programming including the national news that runs at 5:30 central time.

He wants to put up wind turbines in the Midwest to replace the 22 percent of power produced from natural gas. Then that natural gas can be used for transportation.

He was in Washington D.C. today to get Congress to act on his plan. He referred to how Eisenhower declared an emergency to build the interstate system in the 50’s and 60’s. He told them they should follow his lead and suggested an energy emergency. He said that oil could raise to $300 a barrel in the next 10 years because of depleting supplies.

On his website, PickensPlan.com he says that Natural Gas is less than $1 a gallon. Cars like the Honda Civic Gx natural gas vehicle can run on natural gas. What he doesn’t say is that natural gas stations are rare. You can get a special machine that will compress natural gas to put in your car for your home, but it takes 16 hours to fill up your tank. Consumer Reports also reports that the car only gets about 180 miles to the tank. Another downside for me is Chris and I hate our gas company, they charge for maintenance for a building that doesn’t exist. They also charge for the gas, then, on the bill, charge a fee for it. It doesn’t make a lot of sense, but the bill doesn’t make a lot of sense to us either. We would really hate for it to get higher than it already is.

However, these are clean running cars. The emissions are far less than current combustion engines and would be better for the environment.

I’m torn. I would really have to see it work before i bought into the idea at all.

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