Posted on 07/08/2008 6:40:41 PM PDT by gusopol3
I don't find this by search, had just seen it on Fox. He's not tilting Obama is he?
He wants to supplement oil with wind power. He has the money to make something happen with wind if he puts his money behind it.
It can’t hurt.
Not sure but I have heard him touting wind farms in Texas even tho he is an oil man.
Good for him.
I smell a likeness to Ross Perot.
Pickens said he was going to stay out of politics this year so there has to be some money in this for him somewhere. Why else would he do it?
A little more here:
Replace gasoline with natural gas. Replace natural gas-fired power plants with wind, solar, nuclear and clean coal. Basically, replace foreign oil with domestic fuel without straining those resources.
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Pickens kicked off a media campaign today to promote his energy policy ideas — which align perfectly with his business investments. He’ll spend tens of millions of dollars on television and Web advertising and will make talk show appearances along the way.
http://www.rightpundits.com/?p=1696
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Here’s a Brief Overview:
Step #1: Using the United States’ wind corridor, private industry will fund the installation of thousands of wind turbines in the wind belt, generating enough power to provide 20 percent or more of our electricity supply
Step #2: Again funded by the private sector, electric power transmission lines will be built, connecting these wind power generating sites with power plants providing energy to the population centers in the Midwest, South and Western regions of the country.
Step #3: With the energy from wind now available to operate power plants serving the large population centers in key areas of the country, the natural gas that was historically utilized to fuel these power plants can be redirected and used to replace imported gasoline and diesel as a fuel for thousands of vehicles in our transportation system.
“It looks like he has some plan to quintuple the demand for natural gas so that it can cost me $1,000 a month instead of $250 a month to keep my house at 65 degrees in the winter.”
An oil man touting the miracle cure of methane. Who woulda thought??
It sounds a lot like Thomas Edison
it’s obviously timed to influence the election, but to what end? Draw BO into praising the plan, then endorse McCain as the one better able to carry it through?
He’s right that we can’t drill our way out of high energy prices: drilling would be a temporary solution and would lower the cost of oil for a while, and it certainly wouldn’t be a bad idea, but it wouldn’t significantly alter long-term demand trends driving up the cost of energy.
He may also be right about the value of wind. As energy prices rise the economics of alternative energy get more attractive. Pickens is a smart investor and certainly knows a lot about the energy industry, and if he’s putting his money into this it’s likely it has some economic merit.
Think he’s also heavily involved in water, which of course will also be a huge issue sooner rather than later.
the pictures he shows are wind, but a lot of the text is natural gas to power cars.
What better way to tell the Middle Eastern ass*oles to go screw themselves then by becoming energy independent.
It's 2008 and we still are struggling to come up with cars that get 50 mpg? That's ridiculous!
Let's move away from fossil fuels; T Boone is on the right path. Everything should be in the mix.
that’s not going to heat houses in the northeast this winter, and McCain needs to punch away on that.
He ends the spot by saying we can’t drill our way out of the problem. It’s true we can use other methods to generate electical power. However, our national security depends on oil. It will until our military has (aside from ships and subs) vehicles that do not rely on fuel. Given the increased world demand and volatility of the M.E., we had better drill in the meantime. It’s foolish to not do it, IMHO.
Not one California Democrap signed this petition to increase oil production. Only signers were Republicans
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