Why T. Boone Pickens Could Be the Best Hope for Wind Energy
The Texas oilman's 'green conversion' is all about business
In his latest venture, the competitive spark is obvious. Pickens says he wants America to win "the energy war" against the Middle East and become energy independent. If that happens, it'll go down as his greatest takeover bid yet.
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Over the past decade, every time federal tax credits for wind energy have lapsed—and it has happened three times—the wind industry has crashed. There's no guarantee that wind (or solar, or biofuels) will succeed on a large scale.
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The Plan is Poetry
We are in a lot of trouble. Thankfully T. Boone is helping to bring national attention to the fact. We need to get off of foreign oil as fast as we can and stop the exportation of our wealth. To say that the Plan is dependent of Government support should not surprise. “Alarmingly” obvious is the fact that we have (you and I and our Government) done little of consequence about it since the Carter administration formed the DOE specifically for that purpose. “We sort a lazy’d it” says T. Boone…”but we had cheap oil”. Then this past summer he did the math…$142 a barrel, 13 Million barrels a day…yup $ 688 Billion a year, and it was time to strike.
“Well but it’s only $70 a barrel now”…correct…and it was $35 a barrel and 42% imported oil when the Carter Administration thought it might be a good idea. Thank God it hit $142. They awoke the “sleeping giant” that so terrorized Yamamoto after the Pearl Harbor attack.
We’ll need “Leadership” that is clear. What else do we need?
• A long term (10 year) extension of the PTC so that institutions, investors, and manufacturers can depend on it.
• A new electrical grid and infrastructure. The current grid is inadequate, inefficient, and old (some of it 50+ years). A new national grid has been developed by the DOE which would provide the access to the central continental wind corridor. The Government needs to provide the access.
• Legislation requiring transportation be migrated into NG vehicles for the following:
o Public Transportation
o All Federal and State vehicles and Postal
o Municipalities and Services (School Buses, Trash Collection, etc.)
o Large over the road Fleets and Carriers
o Tax credits or incent all other vehicles for any alt. energy (non-oil) fuels.
Why is the Pickens Plan poetry? First, it is all founded on technology that is available NOW as Ken Garber points to in his article. Second, it’s a giant step in the green direction. No one except Boone has suggested anything close to a 200,000 MegaWatt “super farm” in the Central US. The other day I heard him say “take to 400,000 if you want”. That’s BOLD but that is exactly what we need.
One more thing for what it’s worth. Let’s open and drill ANWR and OCS. Continuing with the “War in the Pacific” theme….It’s the perfect “Doolittle Raid” to let them know “we’re coming”.
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