Comments on: T. Boone Pickens Statement on AT&T’s Decision to Upgrade 8,000 Fleet Vehicles to Run on Natural Gas

By: Sean McDonald

Sean McDonald — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 01:42:39 +0000

I agree that CNG gas is neither Green or Clean and it has the same fluctuations as oil. Everyone is being conned into this idea when it is really about the money. If it is not renewable energy in my opinion it is a waste of time. Mr Boone is more concerned with profits than he is concerned about emissions. I am amazed by how many have fell under his spell. He uses windtures turbines that are in efficient and not the state of the art. Right now it is about the grant money for Mr Boone. It is always been about the money for Boone. The sooner you all figure this out the sooner you will understand his motivation. The best thing he did was provide this forum for us to all meet and help really sove these issues.

Sean

By: Bryan Savage

Bryan Savage — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:00:51 +0000

You are worried about CO2. I\’m not. I\’m worried about CH4.
It is 25 times more powerful as a GHG than CO2. There\’s a world full of it in permafrost and frozen under water.
We\’ll never be able to afford the cost of soluations unless we can figure out a way to get the money. If we quit giving $700 Billion a year to foreigners we could spend it on targeted soluations.
OBTW Don\’t think we can just borrow the money, China has
already talked about not loaning us much more money (Sydney Morning Hearld about two weeks ago). We can not waste any more TIME. We don\’t have to waste. We start doing something, anything NOW, or we are dead meat. We\’ve got to start somewhere, now!

By: Bob Lehrer

Bob Lehrer — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:09:54 +0000

Great news! Now, it would really be great if the Government followed suit. Also other companies that have a huge vehicle supply. But, electric would be better and cleaner. Small steps I guess are better than none at all!!!

By: Brian S. Siegel

Brian S. Siegel — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:34:30 +0000

You know the \”perfect\” can be the enemy of the \”good\”. I\’m surprised that you think that a 25% CO2 reduction is not worth pursuing. We have produced CNG vehicles on existing lines that are now idle and could easily do so again. And unlike other fossil fuels, we do have huge reserves of natural gas in North America. On the other hand, electric vehicles are (as you have correctly said) only in development, are not even close for trucks, and will certainly be very costly. They also will have significant upstream costs and indirect emissions.
CNG may not be the final solution, but it can keep things going and improving until we get there.

By: Shelly Thomas

Shelly Thomas — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:03:16 +0000

Pickens is portraying natural gas as \”clean\” and even uses the word \”green\”. Natural gas is not clean and it\’s not green. It\’s a fossil fuel. It\’s not renewable. It\’s not a solution. Electric cars are a solution and they are being developed today. What transferring vehicles to natural gas does is put off the inevitable. — a carbon cap is coming.

\”In fact, according to the EPA, compared to traditional vehicles, vehicles operating on compressed natural gas have reductions in carbon monoxide emissions of 90 to 97 percent, and reductions in carbon dioxide emissions of 25 percent.\”

That is from naturalgas.org
Obviously, carbon dioxide — CO2 — is a huge problem. It\’s the main greenhouse gas that is leading to climate change, and transferring vehicles to burning natural gas is not going to cut down on these emissions very much.

By: Mr. Mark H. Rode

Mr. Mark H. Rode — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:54:05 +0000

we are 100% behind at

By: Curtis Garrison

Curtis Garrison — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 04:55:52 +0000

We don\’t know who we could contact to arrange this, but we\’d love to feature the PickensPlan CNG cars and these AT

By: Richard Coffey

Richard Coffey — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 00:47:27 +0000

This is great news! Now if we can also get U.S. Postal Vehicles, police cars and more going to CNG…
think of all the jobs it could create. I just sent an email to Cox Communications encouraging them to
do the same thing. Everyone needs to keep talking it up at all levels to encourage municipal governments, large

By: Christopher Haase

Christopher Haase — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:13:05 +0000

While I am not the strongest advocate for the entire plan, I do support nearly every \’ideal\’ of the program.

Today I chose to voice my genuine congratulations to Mr. Pickens and AT

By: Darold Boucher

Darold Boucher — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:40:11 +0000

This is extremely exciting. I would be even more excited except that I saw on one of the financial websites where T. Boone sold his entire stake in Clean Energy [CLNE] That was sort of a downer. He started the company, and now he\’s bailed out. I\’d like to hear and see Boone address that