Posted on 08/19/2009 9:03:51 PM PDT by AncientAirs
Boone Pickens should be commended for his leadership on American energy security, and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it. (See their article in today’s Wall Street Journal.)
Specifically, it makes sense to tap the nation's vast on-shore and off-shore natural-gas reserves for the purpose of weaning our trucks and government and corporate fleets from petroleum — much of which is imported from places that exhibit a slavish devotion to sharia, Chavismo, or some other ideology seeking our destruction.
If combined with the adoption of an Open Fuel Standard for automobiles sold in America — which would enable them to run on ethanol (from cellulosic or other sources), methanol (which can be produced from anything with carbon in it), or gasoline — the United States could dramatically reduce its reliance on foreign oil. Better yet, as a practical matter, such a U.S. standard would become an international one, affording as many as 100 other nations the opportunity in relatively short order to power their transportation sectors without relying on OPEC and its friends.
By denying hostile oil-rich nations the favorable market position they currently enjoy, we can not only prevent the further transfer of inordinate wealth to actual or prospective enemies; we also stand a chance of undermining their economies and defeating their hateful ideologies. Those are indeed the right new priorities for America.
Well good to hear that Boone Pickins is doing something besides running around promoting windmills and ‘green’.
“and for bringing Ted Turner along on some sensible approaches to enhancing it.”
Now that is really hard to believe. Somehow I’m not convinced as much as I like Frank.
bookmark.
>The oil cartel is dead.
LOL! No, it is not.
Hey! I got a better energy plan... let's give Brazil 2 billion bucks to drill for oil...
bump to read later.
I’m surprised no one’s made a Blazing Saddles post yet.
More beans Mr. Taggert?
Using natural gas to power automobiles, is like using crown royal.....it is too valuable to waste. It is much better used in home heating, and power plants.
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Boone Pickens is a hypocrite and a liar.
He is extremely wealthy, yet won’t invest his own money in his debacle plan. If he would then what has been going on in North Dakota wouldn’t have -
http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/aug/21/no-pipelines-so-nd-burns-natural-gas-20090821
IN short - North Dakota oil fields have been burning off huge amounts of natural gas simply because they have no pipelines. According to the article, enough natural gas was burned off the fields (wasted) in 2008 to heat every home in North Dakota for two years. Yet we pay through the nose for natural gas down here - and wonder why...
Boone and 0bama-types keep crying about energy independence, yet throw money at non-existent problems and stupid “cash for clunkers” and other pork. How about putting the money where the mouth is? While I don’t like the government spending our tax dollars for things outside of the Constitutional bounds - the fed pays for train rails, highways, and bridges which all play into the delivery of goods and such. IF the government is going to mis-spend, at least use it for something that actually backs up what your moth says.
Not only no, but hell no. I’m not going to pay $500 a month to keep my house at 65 degrees all winter long so that Pickens can increase demand for his NG tenfold. I’m paying enough already. Run cars on something else.
Ive considered purchasing a CNG Honda made here in Indiana.
But I’ve read that the home compressor unit (Phill system) is short lived. Any FReepers knowledgeable on this stuff?
There are no CNG filling stations within 10 miles of my house.
Fisher Tropsch process for Coal to oil for the Military and Airlines.
Executive order over Carters Treaty so we can reprocess nuclear fuel and get rid of the storage problem. Then we build more for Series Hybrids or replace existing gas powerplants>
Use the Gaseous fuel for off road heavy duty vehicles instead of diesel ditto that for our trucking fleet. The lower price point will help keep transportation and mining/road work inflation in check. Look in to what Orbital is proposing to do in AU. With gaseous fuel about 20% of gasoline (I am not sure of diesel) in AU, the savings would be substantial.
Then cars.
At some point our nation needs to wake up to the estimated 200 to 300 yrs of nautral gas finds we have and exploit them. Yes that is right I said exploit them.......
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