Posted on 06/19/2009 6:39:26 PM PDT by Bratch
While Governor Palin is doing her part to progress the largest private sector energy project in the world, there are those who still lack the vision to fully grasp the significance of an Alaska gas pipeline that would deliver natural gas to the Lower 48 states.
In her recent interview with CNN, Governor Palin was asked to react to the claim that Alaska gas may not be needed, due to what the Wall Street Journal called a "natural gas glut." She correctly labeled this view as "short sighted," and noted that natural gas demand is projected to increase significantly by the time the pipeline is built. Governor Palin also pointed out that ExxonMobil, the largest company in the world, and TransCanada, a world-class pipeline construction company, would not have aligned to deliver Arctic gas to the Lower 48 if it was not economically viable.
On Wednesday, T. Boone Pickens, a wealthy oil investor who has expressed an enthusiasm for natural gas, made some perplexing statements about the Alaska gas pipeline.
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my comment here would be to FP’ers to recollect -
Do you remember prior to and immediately aft the glut of T.Boone Pickens on tv about wind power? it seemed everytime you tuned in- there he was . He’s a private investor yet to me he appears as a energy grifter. The distinct impression of a low-life Ross Perot
He should try running his business on windmills.
Your instincts are quite correct.
Good luck with that, Boone. Because we will need all the domestic gas we can get by 2030, you'll probably make a bundle anyway, or your heirs will.
Drill, baby, drill.
He's just another crooked corporate raider feasting off this country's incoherent, dysfunctional energy policy.
Seems Pickens has a stake in another shale gas venture. He should be happy about the gas in AK except he doesn’t because he doesn’t have his hands in it. Doofus.
Don’t you think he’s a thief as opposed to a crook? I think he’s a thief
It’s OK Mr. Pickens. Obama has repeatedly promised to save or create a green job for you.
He sure tilts at them well. Besides the Pipeline would cut into his windmill profits... ya think... maybe just advertising against the competition?
actually in the last two years or so the amount of natural gas discovered in northwest louisiana and elsewhere makes alaska gas unnecessary. basically US reserves natural gas reserves went from 10 years to 100 years in the space of about 24 months.
t boone pickens believes that US trucks should be run on natural gas. Its what the Indians have done. Doing so would cut US demand for oil by about 40%. that would almost completely kill the oil import bill and collapse the cost of gasoline.
the windmill stuff isn’t such a good idea.
I’m pretty sure he voted for Obama too.
You got that right!
Not if we start running the trucks on it.
Nonsense.
The estimates of the Haynesville Shale reserves in Louisiana are all from industry sources, which tend to be more wildly optimistic than USGS estimates.
The Alaskan reserves are USGS estimates, which while more conservative than industry estimates, are more reliable indicators.
The bottom line is if our country makes a large-scale commitment to natural gas for heating, electricty generation, and as a motor fuel, we will need enough of it to tap all of our major gas fields.
It’s a distinct possibility now that the tree-huggers are in a position of power. The don’t want nukes, they hate coal, and they’re finding out that ethanol causes more problems than it solves.
Natural gas burns much cleaner than coal or any other fossil fuel, and the huggers will soon discover that the renewables they think are a panacea won’t makee economic sense for at least four more decades. All roads lead back to good old methane.
Not only does Alaska have trillions of c.f. of regular deposits, it also is rich in gas hydrates, which are technically recoverable.
The pipeline makes sense for the long term.
- JP
Nonsense.
The estimates of the Haynesville Shale reserves in Louisiana are all from industry sources, which tend to be more wildly optimistic than USGS estimates.
The Alaskan reserves are USGS estimates, which while more conservative than industry estimates, are more reliable indicators.
The bottom line is if our country makes a large-scale commitment to natural gas for heating, electricty generation, and as a motor fuel, we will need enough of it to tap all of our major gas fields.
It’s a distinct possibility now that the tree-huggers are in a position of power. The don’t want nukes, they hate coal, and they’re finding out that ethanol causes more problems than it solves.
Natural gas burns much cleaner than coal or any other fossil fuel, and the huggers will soon discover that the renewables they think are a panacea won’t makee economic sense for at least four more decades. All roads lead back to good old methane.
Not only does Alaska have trillions of c.f. of regular deposits, it also is rich in gas hydrates, which are technically recoverable.
The pipeline makes sense for the long term.
- JP
Dang, double post. Sorry...
Dear Ms Smith
Please excuse little Tommy for being late for school today. You see, our windmill quit sometime after midnight and the backup solar panel did not kick in until seven this morning. I understand zero is working on a fix for this, but with all the other things he is fixing, this is way down on the list.
Sincerely,
Tommy’s mom
Methane can come from ground deposits, landfills, biomass or animal waste. If it decays, it can be used.
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