Pickens plan is flawed! Electric cars are the answer!
Any energy plan that does not include Plug IN Electric Cars as its centerpiece is faulty and misguided. The survival of the world depends on the end of the use of oil as soon as possible. Natural gas while cleaner than oil is still a potntial menace to uor environment. Plug in electric cars are the answer. They can be recharged with a domestic solar or wind energy energy system and recharging stations which would only require a simple 110 or 220 outlet. Converting to natural gas is a waste of time and resources. Natural gas still puts pollutants into the air.The electrical grid is the easiest way to get power to cars. Lets put an end to oil. I would rather see the oil industry become extinct than the polar bear. How does Mr Pickens feel about that?
Why has Mr Pickens failed to mention electric cars in the plan?
Why has Mr Pickens failed to mention electric cars in the plan?
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Permalink Reply by Barry Herrero on -
The amount of time it would take to build infrastructure for natural gas cars will be much longer than it will for electric cars. Hoiw long will it take to get 100 million natural gas conversion kits? When will gasolene statoins have natural gas dispensers. By the time that happens there will be hundreds of thousands of electric cars on the roads and in production. I read that Mercedes Benz plans to completely phase out gasolene engine cars in 7 years. Why bother with natural gas when by the time all the billions are spent on that infrastructure it will be obsolete?
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Permalink Reply by Raymond Harrison on -
You have to more power stations to generate electric for your plug in car. You product 2 to 3 times more pollution to make a electric car verse a gas car. If the oil industry became extinct were would your plastics and paints come from.
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Permalink Reply by paula swords on -
the whole idea is to save the oil for plastics, paints, etc. medicines, And use alternative sources of energy for transportation needs.
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Permalink Reply by Barry Herrero on
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Simply not true. Electric cars have over 1500 less parts than gasolene powered cars.
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Permalink Reply by William M McGrath III on -
My friend it takes electricity to charge the batteries on electric cars. What source of fuel is the electric Co using now? You have to get to first base before you can make it home.
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Permalink Reply by paula swords on
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currently lots of our electricity comes from nuclear, coal, dams, tc, etc. If we made electricity from solar & wind and added it to the grid, this would not add to use of oil & gas.
Recently I watched a documentary about life in Nepal's capital city. It showed an interview with a local cab driver... his cab runs off 6 batteries, which he takes out after work, and plugs into his electric source at home. This is a third-world country!!! Nepal? Nepal? And we can't figure out how to do thid in America?
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Permalink Reply by SMC on -
I agree. I plan to get a plug-in electric hybrid nearly as soon as they become available. I typically drive < 10 miles/day and that's well within the battery distance of any of the plug-in electric hybrids planned today. Ideally, they'd make these flex-fuel vehicles, and I could run on E85 for longer trips. It'd probably easily cut my use of gasoline by more than 95% (probably more like 98-99%).
If nothing else, Pickens ought to be proposing plug-in electric hybrids that use natural gas, but I honestly think the natural gas thing is a total distraction.
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Permalink Reply by David F. on -
Because As he has said himself, he is investing everything into wind power and NatGas power and wants us to use NatGas instead of gasoline. He hasn't thought about implementation, he's thought only of getting off the foreign oil tit we love to suck.
I agree Electric Vehicles of real purpose are the key to success.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Ranger_EV
D.F.
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Permalink Reply by jim mize on -
Okay we have another one.
T Boone has mentioned that this is a short term fix until electric car batteries are ready, plus it would take at least 5 years to replace a significant part of our nations fleet of cars. So it might be at least 2 to five years to get a car battery that has a range of say 300 miles that is affordable for the average car buy and then another 5 years to fully integrate them into the nations car fleet.
Please go listen to some of his longer speeches about this. Electric cars are the future but the batteries are not there yet, plus he is eventually looking at a combination of solar/nuclear to meet the increased power needs when the electric cars come one line. Solar is not there yet and nuclear plants will take years to build. Pickens plan is meant to free up some fuel oil and natural gas to power our current cars in the transition period.
Now do you understand.
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Permalink Reply by Stephen Phillip Williams on -
Barry,
I drive an electric car.
The Pickens Plan includes Electric Cars by default. Any plan which involves renewable means of generating electricity automatically covers any vehicle or appliance that would use the electricity generated.
Electric Cars will market themselves with the current prices of transportation fuel!
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Permalink Reply by Andrea on -
Electric cars are not viable immediately on the national scale, but are sure to be a hugely important piece to push on a parallel track for this decade. My son and his father are building one, but battery technology is still a little young for the massive scale needed. If we can't transition the nation and keep everyone employed this will be like it has the last hundred years. You can't threaten an entire industry of auto mechanics and gas stations by shutting them all down, it will take an evolutionary process to let each person/business in this puzzle find it's piece in the future picture. Getting our nation off imported oil is key to global peace. Bringing back some value of conservation and having some redistribution of assets in the scheme is right way!
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Permalink Reply by Michael on -
Right on Bill. Congress needs to immediately allow for solar systems and wind generator tax incentives for residential consumers. Special interest rub (read greed). The utilitiy companies would lose revenue when excess energy being produced is returned to the grid, essentially runing your meter backwards!!!
Did you know only farmers get a $3,000 incentive for a residential wind generator? That incentive is not available to "residential" home owners. Calling Mr. Pickens.
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