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Boone on PBS

The Public Broadcasting System program Frontline aired a two-hour program named “Heat” Tuesday night. Boone Pickens was interviewed for the program. Here’s a transcript of one section of Boone’s comments:

FRONTLINE: In the transport sector, what do you think looks best for replacing oil?

BOONE: Our dependency is so extreme I don’t think anybody can say we can accomplish that unless they’re saying in 100 years or 50 years we’ve got to get off of oil.

But the best transportation fuel you can have, which has been totally stymied by the automobile and oil companies in America, is natural gas. Natural gas is the best transportation fuel. It’s better than gasoline or diesel. It’s cleaner, it’s cheaper, and it’s domestic. Natural gas is 97 percent domestic fuel, North America.

FRONTLINE: In terms of emissions, how does it compare to ethanol?

BOONE: Natural gas would be probably 50 to 75 percent cleaner than ethanol.

FRONTLINE: Why haven’t we invested more in natural gas vehicles?

BOONE: Well, the major oil companies, the marketers of gasoline, they don’t want to change what they’re doing. And what they’re doing is done well. I’m not being critical of them. It’s just a culture that has to be changed when you do it.

FRONTLINE: Is it about money? Is it about building new grids and pipes?

BOONE: No. Natural gas is better distributed than any other fuel in the United States. It’s down every street and up every alley. There’s a pipeline. So the natural gas is available everywhere. They say, “Well, you’re going to have to build stations, and they’re going to have to have compressors to do it, and you’re going to have to change engines in the cars and everything else.”

To me that’s not a government cost — leave that up to industry. Just get industry behind what you’re doing, and it all works because natural gas is cleaner, cheaper, and it’s a domestic fuel.

You can read the entire transcript of Boone’s portion here. And you can watch the entire program online by clicking here.

If you want to help put The Pickens Plan in front of the show’s producer, he will have an on-line chat at 11:00 am EDT today. You can join the chat (and get the Pickens Plan in front of all the other chatters) by clicking here

– The Pickens Plan Team

This entry was posted on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008 at 3:54 am by Rich in In the News, Pickens Plan.
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Comments3 Responses to “Boone on PBS”

October 22nd, 2008 at 4:53 am

gary hines


I am very concerned by a news story I heard on Fox news last night (10/21) that Russian and Iran are working to form a natural gas cartel. Is is possible that America's natural gas could get wrapped up in a foreign cartel that could put us right back in the same dependency we are currently in??? I see this as very possible given our congress and how lobbyist run them.

October 22nd, 2008 at 10:49 am

Timothy Behunin


Frontline asked some great questions of both the representative from Exxon and GM; the lack of long term vision by the big three and our government on both parties

October 22nd, 2008 at 10:57 am

Timothy Behunin


Frontline interviewed representatives from Exxon and GM at the VP level. Typical non-answer, non-solution garbage from corporate America and most of our political leaders, Bush missed the opportunity to after 911 to call for the national will to do better. It’s no surprise that he has failed in so many other areas. McCain would have a shot if he would embrace the Pickens Plan; Obama would solidify his victory. It’s apparent that interests within both parties enjoy the status quo as an argument point. To the campaign staffers on both sides who monitor the Pickens Plan, why don’t you start screaming from the rooftops for your candidate to do the right thing? Are you really that fond of Exxon in relation to oil or ADM and ethanol? Come on campaigns put the country first!

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