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We are doing are very best to get California fired up---guess you could call us late bloomers. Wednesday on The Green Revolution Show we had Congressman Tim Ryan, Ohio, Veronica Gold Ohio State Leader, District Leaders, Sean Kinney, and Jim Pirko. Everyone did a great job of promoting the Nat Gas Act. We gave Congressional Cosponsors in Ohio and California some well deserved recognition. It is really wonderful to see the effort and teamwork everyone is giving. We are highly motivated---thanks to you! This Wednesday, 12/02/09, we will do a show for the California people and salute cosponsors. We are hoping to receive calls from CA Cosponsors so we can really thank them for their support. We are attempting to get State Leaders and their state's cosponsors on air to pay tribute, and keep the focus on HR 1835. We are all very proud to serve in your army and we will give full effort to accomplish the task at hand. Warmest holiday wishes for you and yours.
John Wesley Nobles
I will do all I can to conserve energy!
John Jankovich
P.S. I like your website, I think it is a great idea to help save our envronment!
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.
Can't a fund be setup for contributions to build wind generators ?
This is why I joined this site, to help build wind generators.
I've been working for the Pickens Plan for a year now, and the discussions this week are the first mention of "Fracking" that I have seen. I had heard about hydraulic fracture being used for oil extraction, but hadn't looked into the environmental effects. The chemicals used in Fracking must be regulated by the EPA! Haliburton, and others have managed to get around the laws protecting the environment by using "proprietary formulas" for their Fracking solutions. These solutions are getting into our water supplies and contaminating drinking water, workers are treated for severe acid burns, and toxic chemical exposure. The Pickens Plan should be an example of responsible use of natural resources, care for the environment, education about renewable energy and sustainability, leaving a lasting legacy for the generations to follow.
Restore the Safe Drinking Water Act to protect our water. You can't drink Natural Gas or Oil, and when the AIR and WATER are polluted, the inhabitants of Planet Earth are "Fracked."
I will be consulting with a tribe this month who's wind studies are complete and are ready to build their park. Monies from DC have been received. If you are interested in bringing the plan onto the reservations please let me know. We have the land base away from populations so noise is not such an issue. Environmental impact can be reduced. Let me know if interested.
Maggie
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