Blattus Slafaly wrote:
>
> Bill Bonde { ''Mr Gore, tear down this wall'') wrote:
> >
> > Justin Case wrote:
> >> "OneTwoThree" <youare@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >> news:i9edncXK4Js34hrVnZ2dnUVZ_o_inZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>> "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.
> >>>
> >>> 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.
> >
> >
>
> Pickens what's that 700 billion a year going in HIS pocket instead of to
> foreign bank accounts. Then he can sell his business to the first
> foreigner that comes along like Anheuser-Bush or Getty.
>
It's still whatever money on the US side of the trade deficit.
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