Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
Oil CEO Solves Energy Crisis?

I am having a hard time rooting on a plan of an oil CEO...but this one seems on paper like it would work. Hearing a practical solution coming out of the mouth of the head of BP is surprising.

What does everyone else think?

http://www.youtube.com/pickensplan

10 Comments
Leslie
1) I couldn't get your link to open but I viewed the video by going to youtube. It seems simple so why is there not more being done to pursue the concept???
Leslie   Tuesday, August 26, 2008
stevenheinzel
2) Sure does make sense to me!!!
stheinz   Tuesday, August 26, 2008
billpearch
3) Go wind!
Bill   Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Scott
4) Wow, his big plan is "Use wind power so that we can use natural gas elsewhere?" Tell us something we haven't heard, genius.

Making us less dependent on foreign oil is a short-term goal. The real goal should be to make us less dependent on oil, period. The Japanese are so close to getting a car that can run on water. Not just a special kind of water. Any kind of water. You can pour a pot of tea into the car and that would work. I say we get behind this!
Scott   Tuesday, August 26, 2008
mattpike
5) I think any and every step is needed, but I don't think that natural gas is a miracle fuel that will be able to replace gasoline as a way to power our cars. Natural gas is very close to peaking in the US, which leaves Russia as the largest producer. So...maybe we get a few years out of it, spend billions subsidizing the car companies to convert to nat. gas, only to end up buying our fossil fuel from Russia? That part doesn't make sense to me, and I think it is purely profit motivated since he is sitting on huge natural gas reserves, but I'm all for wind.
mattpike   Wednesday, August 27, 2008
6) T-BOONE makes more sense about the Energy Dependence on Foreign Oil than anyone else. It is time for this this country to have an OIL RACE or Program. Many of us are old enough to remember the Space Race and the APPOLLO Program. The same approaches should be under taken no later than January 20, 2009i. Regardless of which presisental candidate is inagurated, this should the number one priopity.
BeanCounter37   Wednesday, August 27, 2008
ppike
7) The space race was reaching out to new territories, new ideas, new technology. An oil race would be the opposite. Renewable resources and harnessing the powers of ever present wind, water and sun would be more on track with the space race of the 60's. Sucking minerals and gases out of the earth can't last forever - plus, it's not clean.
pegi   Wednesday, August 27, 2008
8) full of gas and wind.

Boone pickens has a plan, his plan.
Jimmy Kane   Wednesday, August 27, 2008
9) Pegi: I can't belive that an Energy Independence Program will do any thing to harm the United States. One of the places where there is abundance of Natural Gas is off shore, and technologically science has barely scrathed the surface in its knowledge of the seabed. Besides the drilling process will be automated by todays standards. Isn't there natural gas deposits under Illinois and you have vast reserves of coal, do you not?
BeanCounter37   Wednesday, August 27, 2008
mattpike
10) She doesn't live in Illinois, and fossil fuels of all kinds are a dying resource.
Do some research, it doesn't make sense, and your radio is lying to you.
mattpike   Wednesday, August 27, 2008
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