Posted on 10/27/2008 4:02:55 PM PDT by shove_it
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The Pickens Plan, which could be overly ambitious in this financial crisis, calls for a conversion from oil products to natural gas in vehicles, first by phasing in two million new heavy trucks - roughly the entire fleet of big rigs that move goods around the country. Trucks account for about a quarter of the amount of oil we import every year.
"If you don't buy into natural gas, you're not buying into the Pickens Plan as a bridge to the future?" Rose asks.
"That's right," Pickens agrees.
"Anybody, whether it's Sarah Palin or George Bush or John McCain, who thinks you can drill your way out of the problem, is?" Rose asks.
"You don't have a chance. There's no way. We're importing 12 million barrels of oil a day. Okay, let's just say that we were gonna replace 12 million barrels by drilling in America. We would be bigger than Saudi Arabia. We are stretched for everything. I mean, we are a marginal producer," Pickens says.
Asked if he thinks his plan is the last, best hope for America to get off its addiction to foreign oil, Pickens tells Rose, "It's the only plan."
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c-BS and T. Boondoggle Pickenyerpockets (who just lost a cool 20 million)
His plan stinks.
The ‘plan’ is currently unworkable. The infrastructure to support it does not exist. We’re not talking about crossing a river, we’re talking about halfway across a continent.
the electric car is coming
Sounds like T. Boone is bucking for Secretary of Energy under Obama.
No, try 2 billion.
Having just lost $2BILLION to falling oil prices, TBone is desperate to tap us to recoup his losses.
Shyster.....
pickens has an agenda and has obviously put a bunch of his own money in windmills and is nervous as heck it is not going to pay off
As soon as someone says “mine is the only way” I smell bulls__t.
With gas prices dropping I don’t think I’ll be engaging in any expensive conversions any time soon.
what about Palin’s natural gas pipeline? Pickens talks, Palin delivers
I think your FR screenname says everything that needs to be said about T-Boone’s boondoggle.
T Bone-us-all Picnicins is full of crap
Wind power is a joke and he has tons invested hoping the dems will make him richer off meney he steals from taxpyers to fund his BS.
Pickens Plan is to gain control of key water resources throughout the central plains states under the cover of generating wind energy.
really, I ain’t buyin’ it T.Boone, so phooey on youey
mrs
If Pickens were on the level, he would be shouting Sarah Palin’s name from the rooftops. She’s done more to increase the supply of natural gas in America than any living human being.
after a while it gets to be real money...
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