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Comment by Chris Schneider on October 27, 2009 at 7:47pm

When was the last time you drove 795 miles in 1 day? To top that feat, I drove 795 miles in 1 day on Compressed Natural Gas (CNG).
I enjoy these rare opportunites to go to a public refueling system. It gives me a chance to see & experience new locations with new or different CNG refueling equipment. It also gives me a chance to accurately measure my fuel efficiency and the results were astounding.
Let's start this story in La Crosse, Wi with an 8 gallon tank full of CNG. Imagine driving 273.1 miles to the north side of O 'Hare Airport along Interstate 90 at 65 mph and refuel 5.429 gallons of gasoline equivalent (GG). A simple calculation 273.1/5.429=50.3 MPG! Astounding. And Ryan assisted me in the refueling process very professionally. But, since this is one of the few public refuleing systems in Chicagoland, I was charged $2.19 per GGE resulting in a charge of $11.88. Now, I know what you're thinking, how can you not be elated about driving 273.1 miles on $11.88. For instance, if your neighbor gets 48 mpg in their Toyota Prius, it would have cost them $15.30 or 29% more. But wait, this is just the 1st part of this astounding story.
Now, let's continue our journey east on I90 to my alma mater, Notre Dame to see none other than T. Boone Pickens! He engaged an audience of approximately 500 people about CNG as a transportation "bridge" to return to American fuel that is 50% more clean than diesel that we import from our enemies. He predicts that oil will reach $300 per barrel in 10 years. I get to shake his hand and give him a copy of our video, Journey to the Zone that is posted on my Pickens Plan page. It is a small example of our regional efforts that are dwarfed by the $62 million that he has spent inthe last 16 months across America.
Let's pop back into my 2006 Honda Civic GX (3rd generation of CNG Civics produced in America) and drive through the rain, road repair and speeds of downtown Chicago traffic to Racine. The rain and speeds reduce my mileage to 48.54 MPG but I refule for $1.109 for CNG! In total I have travelled 562.2 miles on $18.49 giving me an average of 30.4 MILES PER DOLLAR (MP$). Going back to your neighbors Prius getting 48 mpg, with gasoline at $2.69/ gallon, they would have gotten 17.84 MP$. I have completed my measured portion of the days adventure getting 70.4% better MP$ than a Prius. And that includes nearly half the trip calculations at fuel prices that are approximately double what you could refuel in your home with natural gas.
The third leg included more road construction, rain and finally fog but the Honda Civic GX slogged through 795 miles.
273.1 miles@50.3mpg@$1.109gge=$6.02
289.1 miles@48.54mpg@$2.109=$13.04
232.8 miles@48.54mpg@$1.109gge=$5.32
TOTAL 795 miles $24.38
If your vehicle gets 25 mpg, it would have cost you $85.54 to make the same trip. Saving $61.16 feels great but using clean American fuel is the part that T. Boone Pickens would appreciate for his grandchildren.

Comment by Eric Koch on March 25, 2009 at 12:36pm

http://push.pickensplan.com/group/suburbanconvertionproject

Comment by Eric Koch on March 16, 2009 at 11:20pm

i could plaster this on all my groups....but i thought it a nice conversation starter for this "closer to home" group...as,of course, an electronic portal to the whole world gets excessively distracting at times.



Hooked on Growth: Our Misguided Quest for Prosperity from Dave Gardner on Vimeo.

Comment by Oscar on March 5, 2009 at 2:56pm

Hey southwestern WI. This weekend is the Winona Home and Building Show at the Winona Senior High School. Sat-Sun 10am-5pm. Chris Schneider, Tom Schee and I will have a booth promoting and teaching about all forms of available and some not yet available alternative transporation.

Next week we will be presenting the same subjects at UW Riverfalls, WI 12-2pm 3/10, Room 332 in the University Center.

WITC New Richmond, WI 3-4pm 3/10
UW Stout- Menomonie, WI 8-9:30am 3/11
Durand City Hall 104 E Main , Durand, WI 10:30-11:30am 3/11
Riverland Energy Coop, Arcadia, WI 1:30-3pm 3/11, N28998 State Road 93

We hope to see some of you Pickens Planners showing your support to these groups. Learn about your future.

Comment by Chris Schneider on February 15, 2009 at 2:17pm

Please visit the following link for the details of the Early Earth Day Odyssey locations in Wisconsin and Iowa.

http://www.hybridcarstore.com/downloads/calendar-09.pdf
Please RSVP on the Pickens Plan events page to send a signal to other PPrs to get involved!
Thanks,
Chris Schneider
Hybrid Guru

Comment by Mike Anthony Fernald Sr. on February 5, 2009 at 1:50am

Comment by Eric Koch on January 14, 2009 at 10:41am

Copy,Paste,and Send to everyone you know.

America is sitting on an amazing untapped wind resource,the wind corridor that stretches from Texas to North Dakota...our population is stabilized but our agricultural lands are devastated from decades of food exports.

with bio-char production as dump load regulation,in conjunction with power storage solutions the wind power capacity can go in at an astounding rate...the wind fixes the soil ,the soil sequesters the carbon and gives life......our entire world is unsustainable as is, and the changes required don't stop there...what will it take to get you out of your arm chair?

Mr.Pickens is out of his....and i'm sure as hell not going to tell him to sit down.

http://action.pickensplan.com

Comment by Eric Koch on December 18, 2008 at 10:58am

Commence Anarchy!!!!

find your place in the future...(any one who thinks someone else is going to do it for them is dead weight)...if nothing else..get the message out.


..Big turbines+big wind = bang/buck. leave the NG in the electrical power pie and promote people powered people transport and community NEV cargo fleets for grid blasting,and pv installations for reduced grid load.use excess capacity as an opportunity to phase out old,non-combined cycle, coal plants. wile phasing in ETT maglev to replace continental flights and interstate traffic.


stop at one consider none = less mouths to feed..(no time for day care or labor/delivery here)

suburban conversion project....suburban basements are reconfigured to earth sheltered green houses for food production..garages become houses with reconstruction leftovers....cold climates get south facing glazings at Latitude +21 degrees...two runs of 6' culvert pipe between basement and garage for thermal transfer.

Comment by Steve on December 4, 2008 at 7:21pm

Man, I love cheap gas but let's not let up!

Natural Gas and Biofuels are the best next step. Come on Detroit, Japan, Korea, and Germany, get your butts moving, give us more GNG, Bio-D, and E85 cars. Make them hybrids to boot. Better yet, make the CNG. Bio-D and E85 cars PLUG IN HYBRIDS! Give us some choices! Do you think we're gonna forget our dependence on foriegn oil is killing us just because it's cheaper dependence. Come on let's get moving automakers! I read about CNG and Biofuel breakthroughs every day. This can happen next year you idiots! We need this stuff! Quit yakking about an elecrtic future at the exclusion of bio and CNG. We need the stepping stone!

Ok thanks I'm OK now.

Comment by Oscar on November 28, 2008 at 6:05pm

I know the LAX Cof C has been pushing for the high speed rail from Chicago to Mpls to stop at LAX and run up the MN side of the river for many years. If they run the river there are plenty of existing tracks and easement land. Building new track would cost WI Johnny Taxpayer a fortune.

It is not a mag-lev but rather a 100 mph conventional I suppose. Really that is only about 40mph faster than the existing Amtrack.

The bit on WiPR had critics concerned with the rail road bed bike trails. I don't recall the org name though.

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