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Permalink Reply by LP on October 8, 2009 at 13:23

He's da man !!!!!!!
I'll never understand why any American would not be on board with the Pickens Plan. The one and ONLY way to keep our head above water is to stop buying foreign oil and use our own natural resources.

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Permalink Reply by ken hatcher on October 8, 2009 at 15:24

Appreciate your post william!

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Permalink Reply by David on October 8, 2009 at 15:59

Pickens' plan may not be perfect, but it is certainly better than what we have now. And by that I mean we do not have a coherent energy strategy.

Just imagine the investment which could be made in our infrastructure if we made a national policy decision to develop our energy grid and resources, especially NG to replace so much imported oil we convert to gasoline/diesel.

That we are not doing so is going to be utterly amazing to historians of this time and energy policy now.

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Permalink Reply by P.G. on October 8, 2009 at 16:21

If Israel Clobbers Iran over their nukes, we'll have wished there was more foresight of our leadership on energy independence.
Anyone have any idea what a barrel of oil would rise too if this happens?
Every time oil goes way up, they always say it will take years to produce our own. Seems like they ought to be doing something about it right now, huh?

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Permalink Reply by cocodrie man on October 8, 2009 at 20:52

I have been driving around South Africa the last several weeks. This young democracy apparently produces all her electricity much of her fuel from coal. If there is such a thing as a clean coal burn, it is not in South Africa. I have never seen such pollution even along our "Cancer Alley" south of Baton Rouge. Natural gas is much cleaner than coal even without much effort at making it so.

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