I was gone last week when T. Boone Pickens' big energy plan came out and everyone was buzzing about it. CBS has a new interview with him, done by Katie Couric, who actually asks some reasonably tough questions:
Of course what she doesn't do is get much into the meat of the plan itself, or its flaws. At this point, there's not much to add to what's been said by others. It's great that he's juicing wind, and it's great he's telling his fellow Republicans that drilling won't save us. It sucks that he wants to drill all over the place anyway, and it's loopy to think natural gas is going to be plucked from electricity and plopped down into transportation like a puzzle piece getting shifted around.
In the end I suspect the positive impact of Pickens on the wind industry will outweigh whatever other silliness comes in its wake.
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Iheartgrist Posted 11:44 am
15 Jul 2008
Congratulations! You've just joined the chorus of oil industry supported think tanks in criticizing this plan.
If it's "loopy" to use natural gas for transportation, what's your solution? Keep burning diesel? Run long-haul trucking on batteries? Wait for nearly-bankrupt GM to create the perfect electric car?
Natural gas is a cleaner, cheaper and domestic transportation fuel. Check it out at cngprices.com.
Pickens says at the end of his video that we should quickly do the R&D work to bring real battery and fuel cell technology to market, and that natural gas simply provides us a 20 year bridge while we do that. How is that loopy again?
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