Re: Is the Pickens Plan sound?

OneTwoThree wrote:
> "Major Debacle" <Major_Debacle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:0lKhk.16071$mh5.12790@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Or is Pickens full of hot air?
>>
>> Can America harness enough wind power and solar power to kick the
foreign 
>> oil addiction?
>>
>> Pickens says that the natural gas that can be freed up from electricity

>> generation by utilizing wind and solar power can be used to fuel
vehicles, 
>> thus decreasing demand for crude oil.
>>
>> Is this a solid idea or is it bull****?
> 
> since two of his three premises were taken from my own comprehensive
plan 
> for ending foreign oil dependence, I would say he is absolutely right on

> those particular points.

I guess the only difference between you and Pickens is the billions of 
dollars he has to make his plan reality.

> notice that Pickens has nothing to say about coal, nor does he talk
about 
> natural gas-gasoline  hybrid automobiles substituted for
gasoline-electric 
> hybrid automobiles.


I guess he wants to leave some of the glory for you.

When are you going to put *your* plan into action?


> I have read some estimates that say we could meet our Kyoto treaty 
> obligations merely by decommissioning 4 coal fired plants. but that
capacity 
> must be replaced, or preferably exceeded by new plant capacity.
> 
> Pickens' plan is great as far as it goes. It needs to go a step further.
But 
> more power to him for at least attempting to get something going. Unlike
the 
> cites of San Francisco and Berkeley, who claim to be green oriented, yet

> cannot even begin to take the obvious first step of doing a "Pickens
Plan" 
> of their own to get themselves off of coal and nuke generated
electricity.

Dude... Berkeley's juice comes from hydro. So does San Francisco's.

-- 
Output from Prudhoe Bay peaked in 1998 at 2 million barrels per day. 
It's been declining ever since. Every year, less and less oil is pumped
from the Prudhoe Bay oil field. Today, less than 700,000 barrels a day
are being pumped south.

Total production from 1977 through 2005 was 13 billion barrels. As of
August 2006, BP estimated that only 2 billion recoverable barrels remain.

Prudhoe Bay is running dry.