Justin Case wrote:
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> "OneTwoThree" <youare@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > "Major Debacle" <Major_Debacle@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> 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.
> >
> > 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 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> --
> >> 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.
> >
> > but heaven forbid we should seek out new supplies
> >
> >
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> > there are plenty of other oil sources around, and we know where they
are.
>
> Doesn't anyone else see something extremely odd about someone who made
> billions on oil now comes up with another resource which he is the
designer?
> Pickens is positioning himself to double his wealth.
>
Good.
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"I found it lying in the street, like all the food I cook."
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