His company, Clean Energy Fuels, as well as some others are already doing that. It doesn't need tax payer subsidies, they have been building the stations for a couple years now.
On the Pickens plan web site, he lists the following:
The Pickens Plan.
http://www.pickensplan.com/theplan
There are several pillars to the Pickens Plan:
Use America’s abundant natural gas to replace imported oil as a transportation fuel;
Build a 21st century backbone electrical transmission grid;
Develop renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar power; and,
Provide incentives to homeowners and the owners of commercial buildings to upgrade their insulation and increase efficiency.
So far the government has said no - they prefer algae, solar, wind?, and foreign oil.
The Pickens “Plan” appears to be promoting those same renewables. Too many people want to support “the plan” without understanding what his plan is.
Pickens will succeed in spite of the government,
So just why can we not see the presentation he made to the Energy Department on Tuesday? Or his private lunch with Energy Secretary Steven Chu?
I thought you were complaining that you could not see his plan?
Now you want to know what he said at lunch the day before yesterday?
Is that not asking a bit too much?
He is more transparent and open with what he thinks the right thing is for the USA than *any* branch of government or government agency. I think the right avenue is to ask the DOL, or any other government official what they heard, and the purpose of the meeting.
They are the ones that work for us.