Oil will be around for the next 50 years. It's still the cheapest and most efficient fuel. We could always drill our OWN oil if the greenvangelicals and government gasbags get the hell out of the way.

After huge tax increases to build a new fuel network (whatever it is and whether or not it works) the socialist pig governments will just slap an 80% tax on it. It's all a con.

Pickens, if you believe your own bullcrap, invest your own dimes in wind and natural gas or whatever you think will work. Don't force taxpayers to build your new fuel network so you can stay lounging in subsidy heaven.

It's the tax-addicts in government that screw things up, not people using oil to live!

I cant understand how you would be upset over this.

Removing a transport fuel from the national electrical grid, and putting into transport, and replacing it with renewable clean energy for the grid....

Energy independance....the clean, renewable way. Whats wrong with that ?

So, would this really work?

Assuming hes accounted for growth in energy demands, then sure it can work.

It'd cost a bit to get it set up, but once running, should cost next to nothing to generate the elec. from the turbines, and you wouldnt need an entire mining industry and transport industry to rely on in order to get the fuel for it.

QM, Oil, regardless of environmental impact, is not a long-term solution. Exploration and drilling is a long process, and the relative depth and scarcity here make it a very expensive process...which is why we import it. And, as oil resources are depleted, too much in the way of this nation's disappearing wealth is used to secure those resources (see Iraq) not to mention the f-ing chaos that ensues.
we are all addicted to oil. It is the reality that we know.

My main problem with this plan is that it just trades dependence on oil for dependence on natural gas, and still requires a massive investment in wind to just break even on our electrical power grid, not to mention a shift in automotive technology, and a refeuling question to answer (though I'm guessing the plan is to make a filling station from your own home's natural gas lines).

He's right to say it's not the permanent fix, and while it doesn't solve all our problems, it sounds like it'd reduce overall carbon emissions, and ease some of our problems with the price of oil.

I question the validity of asking the auto manufacturers to make two shifts, one to natural gas, and then to all-electric later, though my understanding is that a shift to natural gas wouldn't be too difficult.

All in all, it isn't that bad of an idea. The benefits may outweigh the costs, and it might actually alleviate pressure at the pump while we work on a conversion to fully-electric cars.

However, looking at his website, he isn't making public any sort of cost/benefit analysis, nor does he directly state what role he's looking for government to take, he looks like he's just trying to garner grassroots support for his plan, despite the lack of detail, and that seems suspicious to me.

You know what finite resource we use to assist in the extraction of natural gas?

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