Comments on: Step One: Read the Plan. Step Two: Write Column

By: martha b harper

martha b harper — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:15:21 +0000

the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. critics have alot to say against this plan and absolutely nothing to say as an improvement over what we are doing now. this plan will work. we must start now or we will be worse off in the very near future. i only wish I had a wind farm on my own property now. it is the wave of the future. it will save our future. solar and wind are clean and renewable.

By: Edward Hewitt

Edward Hewitt — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:53:03 +0000

This plan is a great place to start!!! We need both the private sector and government involvement to create sweeping change. Should we take 700 billion dollars a year and give it to people who basically hate us or should we spend that money on building out a solar and wind system to generate enough electricity to light this entire hemisphere?? Lets make enough energy to become an oil exporter. Yeah, I realize that commercial fusion electricity will be available by mid-century and be the thing that powers the world by the end of the century, but in the meantime we absolutely have to have something to get us there…..

By: Greg Hamby

Greg Hamby — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:32:00 +0000

Almost any move away from fossil fuel is needed. This country has had its head in the sand. To see an oil man come out and give a wake up call is amazing. The oil and auto industry should have moved into alternatives years ago. They have controlled our politicians for years and that is why we are here now. Where were all of the \”think tankers\” when one could see the world population exploding and desiring our wasteful lifestyle? To start recycle your leaf blower, gasoline lawn mower, weed wacker and go back to rakes, brooms, clippers, pruning saws ie hand tools. Dont buy herbicide for a bit of grass in your driveway, just bend over and pull it out. There is nothing wrong with breaking a sweat. A side effect of using hand tools would we might get a little healthier and cut health care costs.
Solar power will be the ultimate answer.
Greg Hamby

By: evramos

evramos — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 04:40:08 +0000

This plan makes sense and his plan… oh wait, he doesn\’t have a plan. I hate it when someone takes action and makes a move when everyone is sitting on their hands and you have these armchair quarterbacks talking smack. Don\’t be hating on us states who have wind and natural gas. Everyone in my family has gas wells on their land and live with 35mh wine every day. Turbines will function in concert with wheat and corn… which can go back to feeding people like it was intended.

By: Scott Fentress

Scott Fentress — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:30:12 +0000

The economics of selling a hard good versus pseudo-virtual electricity will provide a number of folks wealth creation, which shouldn\’t be ignored. Electric cars will enter the market quick enough to obsolete natural gas cars, so the grid needs to be solar power enhanced. It\’s happening as we speak, so find a local company and get involved.

By: Eric R. Hinson

Eric R. Hinson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:17:21 +0000

Good comments above. One point I would like to 2nd is - more visual aids. The dedicated individuals like us who are a part of this movement would like to see more videos and photographs of these ideas that are being discussed. Images of converted fleet vehicles, CNG conversion kits for our own cars and trucks, T.Boone talking with politicians and business people alike about these plans - are what we need to see more of on this site. A picture is worth a 1000 words, right?

By: Mike Talotta

Mike Talotta — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:44:48 +0000

And cut off again.

By: Mike Talotta

Mike Talotta — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:42:06 +0000

Sorry, I got cut off there… I agree Pat!… Historically the wealthy influence politicians. IN OUR CASE, NOT ONLY IS BOONE COMPETITING AGAINST HIMSELF, BUT BETWEEN HIS INCOME, THE OTHER DONATIONS FROM THE WORLD\’S WEALTHY, THE PLAN IS ALREADY WELL - OFF. Getting this approved by our government, will not only increase R

By: Mike Talotta

Mike Talotta — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:38:31 +0000

I agree Pat! HISTORICALLY

By: Pat Jack

Pat Jack — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 04:08:13 +0000

The plan needed this kind of strong rebuttal. The wind turbines for the Wind Corridor, (a trillion bucks worth), this thing is a done deal in most people\’s eyes who are for the plan. We will be extremely dissappointed if there are no serious efforts to build these wind turbines over the next 10 years.

The natural gas vehicle part of the plan needs some refinement also. Some visual aids, like some pictures of the types of vehicles whose roles will serve the Pickens Plan well if they were natural gas powered vehicles.

My sense from the forums and discussions, and observations on activity in groups and the passion of that activity is that the common man is observing that he could save a lot of money if his vehicle used natural gas … right this very minute.

I see companies reporting to their shareholders in the future information about how they save millions of dollars by converting their fleet to natural gas vehicles. Employees of those companies and people who understand the saving the \’big boys\’ get are going to want a taste of that pie.

There will be a serious grassroots or \’underground\’ effort to convert existing gasoline powered vehicles to natural gas vehicles. Somebody is going to come out with a cost effective kit and mass market that if … you deliver the goods on your end.

I think it will be a breath of fresh air for 5 or 10 years simply to have another fuel type available for transportation that is feasible to compete with that old bear gasoline.

Boone, please take a look at producing some solid media based on charts and outlines which you have done so nicely before, and let that media clue us in more strongly on the natural gas \’bridging\’ solution and where that needs to be in 10 years and what it will look like.