Congress is taking notice because of T Boone Pickens for Natural Gas

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Permalink Reply by Web Smith on July 19, 2008 at 10:00pm

We are headed towards socialism and communism when the government starts compelling free enterprise to do anything. We are in this situation because the government started compelling people to do things without the Constitutional authority to do so.

You don't have to give up more of your freedom in order to solve this problem. The American people can compel automakers to manufacture natural gas cars by simply buying natural gas cars. It is up to you and the rest of us to convince enough Americans, who take your advice of their own free will, to buy natural gas cars. Stop asking the government to do things that they are not supposed to do.

This Congressman swore to uphold and protect the Constitution but, evidently, has never read it.

We need a more proactive Supreme Court to stop things like this from happening.

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Permalink Reply by Mark G Cooper on July 20, 2008 at 1:48am

Sir,
The fact is that Congress has to mandate the building of Transmission lines so that renewable energy, when it is created from Wind, Solar and ? can get to the users of that electricity. The market, free interprise, is not and can not build those Transmission lines. Please, take the glass bubble off your head, it is a world economy out here and governments are creating the infrastruture.
You opinion held water twenty years ago but it is a different USA now and will never return to your old USA. It is bigger, the problem is bigger, over $700 billion a year of capital is leaving our country for oil, listen to T. B. Pickens, a billionaire which still is asking for help from the Congress and Administration. If a Billionaire, can not do it with his money and power, then your opinion does not hold as much water as you may think.

We can't Market our way out of this.
We can't drill our way out of this.
We can't wait for your, USA, to correct itself.

Banks are failing Sir.
$4 a gallon gasoline

What on this earth is your plan, reply to me with the hard facts.

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Permalink Reply by Kurt Stiffel on July 20, 2008 at 2:19am

right now the EPA is taking the cost of conversion kits that would cost $1k-$5k and driving them up to $5k-$18k because of their overzealous certification process of the CNG conversion , Californias CARB is even worse, instead of $50k-$100k with the EPA it costs from $200k to $300k to get it past CARB.

Americans are compelling the government to take action and government will often subsidize an industry til it makes it big. In China they are subdizing solar and many other industries that are robbing us of mfg jobs. And none of those issues is as critical as punking OPEC is...

We need CNG , HEMP, WIND , SOLAR , NUKE, etc etc etc and we need them on large scale basis like WIND FARMS, SOLAR FARMS , as well as your own home version if it makes sense for you area/property...

cehck this out...
http://inhofe.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=PressRoom.Pres...

power to the SHEEPles

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Permalink Reply by Mark G Cooper on July 20, 2008 at 2:39am

You are absolutely right and I know how all these types of actions make you feel.
The solution is easy to do but hard to make happen.
First, Americans, must ralley around T.B. Pickens, a billionaire. You already said it, we, simple people are being taken advantage of. We, simple people always do, because we want government to do it for us. We want and We want, we live in a let the insurance do it world or let the police do it world or let government do it world but we have to organize, UNITED WE STAND, devided we fall.

Until you get cars and trucks which already have conversions on them, then you will subjecting yourself to all the evil of capitalistic actions which will happen from the fear, the ignorance and the not knowing of what you can do for yourself.

Your reply, only spreads fear, literally all you have to fear is fear itself.

I own a 2000 F-150 Liquid Propane and Gasoline truck which I bought after it was used.

So, you can be a VICTIM or you can be PROACTIVE, take CHARGE and make the reasonable happen, behind a man like T.B. Pickens.

Lastly, the sooner, we realize finally, that our government is corrupt with its own kind of story after story, put off after put off, the only thing washington is good for, is very slow progress while the middle class loses.

Mark G. Cooper
I own a truck I bought used with Liquid Propane conversion on it.

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Permalink Reply by James Cranford on July 23, 2008 at 9:09pm

I agree. Congress should provide the needed and extended incentives to get nat gas retailed as an available auto fuel in the US, to encourage our auto industry to make nat gas fueled autos here in the US. But mandates, no. I think the incentives will be enough to get the ball rolling.

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Permalink Reply by Mark G Cooper on July 20, 2008 at 2:52am

So thats it, we just sit down, take it up the ause and let the machine continue running our lives, our country and our energy needs into the ground.

How small, how little your commits would be little our abilities to unite around a Billionaire with a plan, with a plan he is doing, with a plan he is mass media on TV and Wind Turbines to generate energy, you were just turn your backs because of "Logic Tells You" that all this is just impossible.

Go then, crawl back into that h*** and let the Political Machine run your thoughts, Americans like me, purchases used already converted trucks and cars, Americans like me purchase brand new Honda CX running on Compress Natural Gas, Americans like me do not ever let the Political Machine run my life.

It is time, that a country full of my country men, raise up, stand with a back bone, be AMERICAN enough to say, no! UNITED WE STAND means organizing around someone because he is willing to stand before the Political Machine. If I were a Billionaire, I would do exactly what TB Pickens has done, is continuing to do and will continue to do, dispite all the nay sayers, all the fence sitters and all the "We are too small and helpless" to change our America.

I am so sorry for you Perry.

I am not that type of AMERICAN, I will unite and I will organize and I will make changes happen.

We need every AMERICAN, to stop putting up walls and start making new paths which help.

Mark G. Cooper
I own a Liquid Propane Truck and I bought it used. YOU CAN TOO.

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Permalink Reply by James Cranford on July 23, 2008 at 9:11pm

See your are spreading your BS all over the site, Mr. Travis.

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Permalink Reply by Lee K. Shuster on August 2, 2008 at 7:41pm

NEW LEGISLATION TO INCREASE THE USE OF NATURAL GAS AS TRANSPORTATION FUEL

Washington, D.C. – Rep. Rahm Emanuel and Rep. Dan Boren will introduce legislation today to increase the use of natural gas vehicles in America over the next ten years by providing incentives to consumers to purchase natural gas vehicles, automakers to manufacture natural gas vehicles in America, and service stations to install the infrastructure necessary to fuel natural gas vehicles. By providing an array of incentives, the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions (NAT GAS) Act establishes a framework to achieve the goal of increasing the percentage of natural gas vehicles on the road to 10% of all vehicles by 2018.

“This proposal is a hat trick for America: it’s good for our environment, good for our national security and good for families,” said Emanuel. “Our addiction to oil has only gotten worse and drivers are suffering each time they fill up their tank. Encouraging the use of natural gas will help end our dependence on foreign oil and save money for families across the country.”

“By fully utilizing our nation’s vast natural gas resources, we have a real opportunity to make a positive and sweeping impact on our energy and economic future. Coming from a producing state, I believe this legislation will spur economic growth and job creation. Most importantly, it will increase the nation’s energy independence while providing hard-working Americans with a cheaper, cleaner alternative to the rising cost of gasoline,” Boren said. “There are also provisions that greatly encourage market development so that current and future NGV owners have more locations that serve their vehicles.”

“It is important to break the monopoly of the oil industry at the service station, and to offer drivers freedom of choice when it comes to how they power their vehicles,” added Sierra Club Executive Director Carl Pope.

Emanuel and Boren’s legislation would provide incentives to encourage automakers to make 10% of their fleet vehicles that run on natural gas by the year 2018. The bill would also offer new incentives to make natural gas more readily available for drivers and could enable the construction of natural gas pumps at 20,000 gas stations across the country. The legislation:

- Offers a $90,000 tax credit to encourage gas station owners to install natural gas fuel pumps.

- Provides $2.6 billion in bonding authority to states to provide no or low-interest loans to service stations to install natural gas pumps.

- Requires the gas stations owned by the major oil companies to install at least one natural gas pump in each station by 2018.

- Includes consumer tax credits for the purchase of natural gas vehicles and the cost of converting their cars to run on natural gas.

- Provides consumer tax credits for Americans to purchase home “Phill” units, a simple device that can be installed in a garage that allows drivers to use their home natural gas line to refuel their car.

- Creates a production tax credit to encourage car companies to manufacture natural gas vehicles in the United States.

- Provides $5 billion in bonding authority to encourage the re-tooling of U.S. manufacturing facilities to produce natural gas vehicles.

Currently, natural gas costs about half of the price of gasoline and produces approximately one-third less emissions. Additionally, 98% of the natural gas Americans currently consume is produced in North America, and current estimates indicate that America has a 118 year supply of natural gas.

American automakers have the proven technology to produce vehicles that run on natural gas. General Motors currently makes four different natural gas vehicles in Europe and Asia, and both GM and Ford previously manufactured a wide range natural gas vehicles for sale in the U.S.

The NAT GAS Act would also create jobs and help offset recent declines in the SUV and light truck market. Estimates indicate that increased demand for natural gas powered vehicles and natural gas production could create 500,000 US energy industry jobs.

Consider Natural Gas and their three E’s and everyone a triple winner:

- 1) ECONOMY (50% below the cost of OPEC Oil-based Petrol & Diesel. Our fuel $$$ stay in America’s economy. Nat Gas is already piped to 70% of American homes.

- 2) ECOLOGY: Low Carbon, CH4, Clean Fuel - Clean Air; great “Well-to-Wheel” LCA, transistion to no carbon H2 and

- 3) ENERGY INDEPENDENCE - Say goodbye to gasoline forever and the OPEC Oil required to refine it

“There are no Silver Bullets — just lotsa Siver Buckshot.”

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