Comments on: The Pickens Plan and Your Reaction http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2008/12/16/the-pickens-plan-and-your-reaction/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:08:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Louielamson2000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2008/12/16/the-pickens-plan-and-your-reaction/#comment-4399 Louielamson2000 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:16:47 +0000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/?p=508#comment-4399 AMERICAN NEED BREAK FROM OPEC.!!!. AMERICAN MUST CREATING “ AMERICAN CLEAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE” TO SOLVE AMERICAN ENERGY CRISIS!!! AMERICAN NEED TO INVENTION FOR LIGHT SOURCES, USE CLEAN ENERGY OF WINDS, SOLARS, NATURE GAS AND SEA WAVES. Make natural gas available and affordable for our current vehicles as Boone says. GM-FORD-CHRYLER need make more Electric Cars [MADE IN AMERICA] Congress must support and pass legislation!!!??? AFTER ALL AMERICA IS GREAT COUNTRY. YES! I AGREE WITH : Julia Stewart WROTE: “America has the opportunity right now to make one of the most important choices in human history: to choose sources of power that sustain a healthy planet and free us from dependence on nations that don’t like us. If we make the wrong choices now, we will go down in history as the foolish people who frittered away our freedom and our planet.” AMERICAN NEED BREAK FROM OPEC.!!!. AMERICAN MUST CREATING “ AMERICAN CLEAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE” TO SOLVE AMERICAN ENERGY CRISIS!!!
AMERICAN NEED TO INVENTION FOR LIGHT SOURCES, USE CLEAN ENERGY OF WINDS, SOLARS, NATURE GAS AND SEA WAVES.
Make natural gas available and affordable for our current vehicles as Boone says.
GM-FORD-CHRYLER need make more Electric Cars [MADE IN AMERICA] Congress must support and pass legislation!!!???
AFTER ALL AMERICA IS GREAT COUNTRY. YES! I AGREE WITH : Julia Stewart WROTE:
“America has the opportunity right now to make one of the most important choices in human history: to choose sources of power that sustain a healthy planet and free us from dependence on nations that don’t like us. If we make the wrong choices now, we will go down in history as the foolish people who frittered away our freedom and our planet.”

]]> By: Gale Monk http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2008/12/16/the-pickens-plan-and-your-reaction/#comment-2840 Gale Monk Sun, 09 Aug 2009 19:50:33 +0000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/?p=508#comment-2840 trying to get a derick on my land I believe to have an abundant amount of gas & oil on the property from the area that I see has pumps working year round. Are there gov't regulations keeping that from happening with reserves in need? trying to get a derick on my land I believe to have an abundant amount of gas & oil on the property from the area that I see has pumps working year round. Are there gov’t regulations keeping that from happening with reserves in need?

]]> By: A. R. Gale http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2008/12/16/the-pickens-plan-and-your-reaction/#comment-591 A. R. Gale Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:41:09 +0000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/?p=508#comment-591 I basically agree with the PickensPlan, keeping in mind that it is, by T. Boone's own description, a STARTING POINT. There are many misconceptions floating around that this is a total solution, which it never was intended to be. Two points need to be emphasized here (in addition to the above) and those are that it is Doable in relatively short time, and that SOMEONE has finally stepped up and DONE something. It is to our discredit that one man had to put his own personal fortune on the line to get something started, but this is America and this sort of thing has been done before. Shame on our Government which has had over 30 YEARS to do something about our energy situation and couldn't seem to do anything beter than go on vacation when times were critical and ideas were pending (because they were not THEIR ideas?). My personal recommendation(s) start with reconfiguring the power grid, and the distribution "thinking" from central generation points and distributed power service to distributed generation and central "collection" of surplus power. Innovations in wind and solar generating equipment, processing and storage systems and controls have made it feasible for urban and residential areas to be generators, supplying their own needs first and then shipping surplus power to the other users via the grid. This would allow implementation in small units so individuals and small companies could afford to install them, and at the same time free the country at large from single-point failure driven catastrophic blackouts - or attacks. Think about it - then visit PickensPlan.org and look around. There is more than just wind there. I basically agree with the PickensPlan, keeping in mind that it is, by T. Boone’s own description, a STARTING POINT. There are many misconceptions floating around that this is a total solution, which it never was intended to be. Two points need to be emphasized here (in addition to the above) and those are that it is Doable in relatively short time, and that SOMEONE has finally stepped up and DONE something. It is to our discredit that one man had to put his own personal fortune on the line to get something started, but this is America and this sort of thing has been done before. Shame on our Government which has had over 30 YEARS to do something about our energy situation and couldn’t seem to do anything beter than go on vacation when times were critical and ideas were pending (because they were not THEIR ideas?).

My personal recommendation(s) start with reconfiguring the power grid, and the distribution “thinking” from central generation points and distributed power service to distributed generation and central “collection” of surplus power. Innovations in wind and solar generating equipment, processing and storage systems and controls have made it feasible for urban and residential areas to be generators, supplying their own needs first and then shipping surplus power to the other users via the grid. This would allow implementation in small units so individuals and small companies could afford to install them, and at the same time free the country at large from single-point failure driven catastrophic blackouts – or attacks.

Think about it – then visit PickensPlan.org and look around. There is more than just wind there.

]]> By: louielamson2000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2008/12/16/the-pickens-plan-and-your-reaction/#comment-581 louielamson2000 Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:36:12 +0000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/?p=508#comment-581 How well a new President Elect and his Administration will work with T. Boone Pickens Plan to make progress, and to change for America? Election in America is over. Now is time for Americans people to look on an ahead, and see what happens next? How well a new President Elect and his Administration will work with T. Boone Pickens Plan to make progress, and change for America? American people, News, Medias, and USWebTalkRadio need keep eyes on watch. Best wishes, Louielamson2000 Dalat Vietnam Jan 19, 2009 http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/USWebTalkRadio http://www.uswebtalkradio.com/contact.html How well a new President Elect and his Administration will work with T. Boone Pickens Plan to make progress, and to change for America?

Election in America is over. Now is time for Americans people to look on an ahead, and see what happens next? How well a new President Elect and his Administration will work with T. Boone Pickens Plan to make progress, and change for America? American people, News, Medias, and USWebTalkRadio need keep eyes on watch.
Best wishes,
Louielamson2000
Dalat Vietnam Jan 19, 2009

http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/USWebTalkRadio

http://www.uswebtalkradio.com/contact.html

]]> By: louielamson2000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2008/12/16/the-pickens-plan-and-your-reaction/#comment-574 louielamson2000 Fri, 16 Jan 2009 11:12:48 +0000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/?p=508#comment-574 Congratulated with T. Boone Pickens Plan. Absolutely America needs Pickens Plan. Without Energy Independence, Americans will not have future economy goals. Neither for short term or long term… Will Americans people, Congress, and new President-Elect Barack Obama work with T Boone Pickens Plan, to fix this problem. Good Luck Louielamson2000 Dalat Vietnam Jan 16, 2009 http://push.pickensplan.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2187034%3ABlogPost%3A1480344 Congratulated with T. Boone Pickens Plan. Absolutely America needs Pickens Plan.
Without Energy Independence, Americans will not have future economy goals. Neither for short term or long term… Will Americans people, Congress, and new President-Elect Barack Obama work with T Boone Pickens Plan, to fix this problem. Good Luck
Louielamson2000
Dalat Vietnam Jan 16, 2009

http://push.pickensplan.com/profiles/blog/show?id=2187034%3ABlogPost%3A1480344

]]> By: louielamson2000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2008/12/16/the-pickens-plan-and-your-reaction/#comment-572 louielamson2000 Thu, 15 Jan 2009 03:21:49 +0000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/?p=508#comment-572 Will American people continue dependence on foreign oil? If so, I believe American Energy Downturn will be not fixing. Without Energy Independence, Americans will not have future economy goals. Neither for short term or long term… Will Americans people, Congress, and new President-Elect work with T Boone Pickens Plan to fix this problem? “It’s never too late to learn, or to fix a problem. It’s only too late when you do nothing, or ignore the problem. Jan 15, 2009 Louielamson2000 http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/LOUIELAMSON2000 Will American people continue dependence on foreign oil? If so, I believe American Energy Downturn will be not fixing. Without Energy Independence, Americans will not have future economy goals. Neither for short term or long term… Will Americans people, Congress, and new President-Elect work with T Boone Pickens Plan to fix this problem?
“It’s never too late to learn, or to fix a problem. It’s only too late when you do nothing, or ignore the problem.
Jan 15, 2009 Louielamson2000

http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/LOUIELAMSON2000

]]> By: louielamson2000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2008/12/16/the-pickens-plan-and-your-reaction/#comment-560 louielamson2000 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:50:28 +0000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/?p=508#comment-560 Neither has you agreed with T Boone Pickens Plan or not. But I am believed. It’s never too late to learn, or to fix a problem of [Energy Plan for American people in 21st Century] It’s only too late when you do nothing, or ignore the problem. Louielamson2000. Jan 13, 2009 Neither has you agreed with T Boone Pickens Plan or not. But I am believed.
It’s never too late to learn, or to fix a problem of [Energy Plan for American people in 21st Century]
It’s only too late when you do nothing, or ignore the problem.
Louielamson2000. Jan 13, 2009

]]> By: A. R. Gale http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2008/12/16/the-pickens-plan-and-your-reaction/#comment-543 A. R. Gale Fri, 09 Jan 2009 12:59:22 +0000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/?p=508#comment-543 I agree with the PickensPlan. It is about time that something was done to get us off dependence on foreign oil and his plan is a great start. It is also ONLY a START - not the ultimate solution. Too often we want a one-step fix to a problem and that will not work here, as he said. I agree with the PickensPlan. It is about time that something was done to get us off dependence on foreign oil and his plan is a great start. It is also ONLY a START – not the ultimate solution. Too often we want a one-step fix to a problem and that will not work here, as he said.

]]> By: Laura http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2008/12/16/the-pickens-plan-and-your-reaction/#comment-540 Laura Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:44:17 +0000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/?p=508#comment-540 I absolutely agree with the Pickens Plan. It's the only comprehensive plan I've seen that addresses short term and long term solutions. No more foreign oil! I absolutely agree with the Pickens Plan. It’s the only comprehensive plan I’ve seen that addresses short term and long term solutions. No more foreign oil!

]]> By: Tom Macey http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/2008/12/16/the-pickens-plan-and-your-reaction/#comment-538 Tom Macey Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:40:01 +0000 http://www.theamericanconsumer.org/?p=508#comment-538 While I agree with the stated goals, i.e to stop sending massive amounts of money to the oil producing countries and make the United States energy independant, I am not 100% convinced that wind power will do the job to fill the gap while we develop Natural Gas and Domestic sources of Petroleum. I would like to see some hard data that shows the maximum electricity vs availability of wind to provide the power on a daily, weekly, monthly basis. My fear is that as there may be enough energy available from the wind it may not be available when we need it. For example, late afternoon in July or August would have a high demand because of Air Conditioners running in the humid East Coast and South. Is there enough wind in those months at that time to provide the power? Or did I miss something. Are we going to produce electricity when we can and store it, e.g. by pumping water into a reservoir to be released later to drive turbines, for when we need it? What do we do if there is a long period with light winds? This may be stretching things but, if you take energy out of the wind are there any consequences for the people downwind? After all, TANSTAFL - There Aint No Such Thing As a Free Lunch! We should start the switch to LNG ASAP. As we seem to be in the mood to hand out money, how about a Government grant or tax credit for those of us willing to convert our vehicles to Natural Gas, Start with the fleet users,i.e. delivery trucks,cabs, transit buses, school buses etc... and work our way down to private vehicles. Grants or credits for Solar Water Heaters and home power solutions, i.e wind or solar, would get people interested and reduce the need to rebuild the electrical grid. While I agree with the stated goals, i.e to stop sending massive amounts of money to the oil producing countries and make the United States energy independant, I am not 100% convinced that wind power will do the job to fill the gap while we develop Natural Gas and Domestic sources of Petroleum.
I would like to see some hard data that shows the maximum electricity vs availability of wind to provide the power on a daily, weekly, monthly basis.
My fear is that as there may be enough energy available from the wind it may not be available when we need it.
For example, late afternoon in July or August would have a high demand because of Air Conditioners running in the humid East Coast and South. Is there enough wind in those months at that time to provide the power?
Or did I miss something. Are we going to produce electricity when we can and store it, e.g. by pumping water into a reservoir to be released later to drive
turbines, for when we need it?
What do we do if there is a long period with light winds?
This may be stretching things but, if you take energy out of the wind are there any consequences for the people downwind? After all, TANSTAFL – There Aint No Such Thing As a Free Lunch!

We should start the switch to LNG ASAP. As we seem to be in the mood to hand out money, how about a Government grant or tax credit for those of us willing to convert our vehicles to Natural Gas, Start with the fleet users,i.e. delivery trucks,cabs, transit buses, school buses etc… and work our way down to private vehicles.
Grants or credits for Solar Water Heaters and home power solutions, i.e wind or solar, would get people interested and reduce the need to rebuild the electrical grid.

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