Posted on 07/28/2008 5:59:33 AM PDT by Clive
No problem, and yes, I hope they do!
That’s good to hear. Maybe I’d like the guy.
“Nobody ever addresses what we are supposed to use for fuel until our cars are built to run on “whatever” replacement for gasoline or what they are going to do with the millions of gasoline powered cars.”
It is happening now, and Boone does address it also on his website. CNG (compressed natural gas) vehicles, (Honda makes a Civic model), are available, as is the home filling station that you can put in your own garage. Fill up right at home using your home’s source of natural gas, or fill up at one of the terminals mapped on the Phill site. Honda will ramp up the availability of the car to other states shortly, but you can purchase one in NY and California. Even Chavez himself has ordered his country to be over 50% CNG vehicles in the next couple of years. Thailand and other Asian countries are already doing so, and have high-speed filling stations built already. Takes about 20 minutes instead of overnight. It’s 80% cleaner burning also.
Bingo....be careful though, some on this thread will call you an anti American troll
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I worked my way through college operating a Mexican Back Hoe and riding in a gang truck.
Is Mexican Back Hoe now politically incorrect for a shovel?
Also, converter kits are available for many current gas models with more coming. You can do it yourself if you are adept, or go to a certified installer.
He’s been a business man his whole life.
Is his life over now?
“What will it cost to place compressed natural gas pumps at every gas station?”
And what will widespread use of natural gas as a motor fuel do to home heating costs? In this case the expression “though the roof” is unfortunately quite appropriate!
We need to drill for oil, develop oil shale, and also coal gasification. Now!
Everything would be a lot easier if Al Gore was finally discredited. It’s difficult to invest billions when the majority party in Congress considers your investment an environmental crime.
And no one has claimed the million dollars yet. If it was a smear it should be easy to prove one Swiftboat Vet's statement was untrue. Are you lefties so rich and lazy you won't even do that much for a million dollars?
What am I to do with a 1982 El Camino?
There is probably not one mechanic in my hometown who could convert or work on one. I kid you not! LOL!
If I tried to fill up, I'd probably blow up the neighborhood!
Pickens is right about our dependence on foreign oil - it’s a disaster.
Now that I can agree with.
“First of all T. Boone was not spouting Democrat talking points but is pointing out that even with a massive drilling program we cannot defeat the future of a world with little oil.”
At $50 per barrel equivalent and up there is a huge amount of hydrocarbons in North America: coal, shale oil, tar sand, harder-to-get oil like the Baaken formation. Instead Boone has gone hat-in-hand to the Democrats in Congress asking for subsidies for his wind farms. And in return he’s giving them valuable political cover for continuing to refuse to drill. In my opinion Boone’s behavior is very poor.
Somebody needs to tell Washington where the calf sucks.
Can you tell me and this forum just how expensive and how long it will take to get into production enough energy sources to offset the 60% of oil we import?
Some still believe like JR Ewing that all you have to do is drill a hole anywhere, put up a Quick Trip or 7-11 and start pumping High Test and Unleaded.
Spend 58 million to get government subsidies of 580 million???
“went to a Democrat controlled congress and told the truth.”
Perhaps he told the truth, and the MSM took pieces out of context to make it sound like a lie. When Boone was quoted as saying that ‘you can’t drill you way out if it’ he was made to look like an enabler of Democratic obstructionism. If that wasn’t his intention, he ought to make it crystal clear to everyone.
devere wrote:
“went to a Democrat controlled congress and told the truth.”
Perhaps he told the truth, and the MSM took pieces out of context to make it sound like a lie. When Boone was quoted as saying that ‘you can’t drill you way out if it’ he was made to look like an enabler of Democratic obstructionism. If that wasn’t his intention, he ought to make it crystal clear to everyone.
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I do not trust the MSM and neither does most of America judging by their huge circulation losses.
T. Boone was on Hannity today doing just that.
As he said, the accountants are saying there is 86 billion barrels of oil not the geologists.
People tried to tell politicians back in the 1970’s that the constant lawsuits of the Sierra Club and other environ-mental one agenda intervention groups would someday bite the US in the butt.
That day came during Jimmy Carters term in office and again our elected politicians refused to recognize that we had major problems.
Many well-intentioned well-meaning folks on both sides of the issue have been dreadfully wrong.
However, this time, we as a nation cannot afford to be on the wrong side and expect to maintain our status as the greatest nation.
I say drill, drill now, and drill in my back yard if that is what it takes to keep America strong.
I am even game for windmills, nuclear plants, solar farms or anything else that might make any amount of difference in bringing down our dependence on those who would want to do us harm.
I find it odd that the Democrats do nothing but criticize John McCain for being to old to be president yet it is some 80 year old, supposedly over the hill Oil Field Trash Billionaire who has to come along and point out to these airhead politicians the way out of the jungle AKA an oil crisis.
T. Boone is a big boy and a very rich one at that and I doubt he will be buried in a paupers grave should windmills not make his return on investment.
He is however, miles ahead of Hairy, Nancy and Obama and most politicians when it comes to having enough common sense to understand that something has to be done and it had better be damn quick.
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