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Dallas, Tx. 75225
Dear Mr. Pickens,
I am so excited about your plan for energy self sufficiency. Wind power can replace fossil-fuel fired electric generation. It cannot currently replace imported crude oil products for transportation.Wind power is clean, renewable and ubiquitous. Much of the grid for power transmission is in place. The grid does not, as you note, extend to the sparsely populated region of high winds that is the Great Plains. In characteristic fashion, you have committed your wealth to making wind power a viable solution to our growing energy crisis.
Your turbines provide use for acreage that may otherwise be nonproductive, and if not can supplement the income generated by its main use. Another use for your grid may well be in communication. Your wind turbines can readily double as cell phone towers, adding to your revenues. The power grid may, with the proper set of circumstances, provide DSL and television programming for residents nationwide. Your venture may also act as a pilot for other lands in our great nation. Farms and ranches across the Midwest can install turbines to augment their income and provide power to our great cities. Power providers for autos can supply the flow of commerce across our heartland, with turbines fueling the electric cars and compressed natural gas and propane or LP gas for our trucks and buses. Natural gas, as you so directly noted, can be used for transportation needs. It is clean and plentiful. Its infrastucture is largely in place. In the refining process, the gas stream yields valuable gas liquids
which can also be used for fuel.
Mr Pickens, your plan is marvelous, visionary and attainable. The technology exists to convert our current fleet f passenger cars, trucks and semis to clean burning CNG as well as propane and LP gas. There is already one ompany selling microcompressors for home use to make the natural gas into fuel for our cars. Currently the compressors are costly, as is the conversion of our vehicles to burn it. With the right impetus, economies of scale and competition can force this cost down.
You, sir, have already headed up one foundation dedicated to helping kids. Could you have the energy to join with other men of vision to create another foundation to continue helping those kids and the adults they will become to live in a world free of pollution in a nation that leads the world toward energy independence? Your foundation can provide loans for home-owners to purchase microcompressors to provide the CNG and to convert their cars to run on the CNG that they produce at home. There is then no lag time to allow for a network of CNG fueling stations to be designed and built. That network will be built to capture the demand that your foundation creates. The interest from the loans provides a return for the foundation to fund other endeavors. The foundation can provide larger loans for apartment complexes to provide fueling stations for their tenants. It can loan to farms
and ranches to convert their machinery to burn the propane that is a biproduct of natural gas production. The foundation can provide loans for power stops, a far-flung network of truckstops that provide power from their
turbines and solar cells for electric cars and CNG or LP gas or propane for the flex fuel cars and trucks that will
one day ply the nation’s highways.The foundation can provide loans for solar cells with interties to the grid. The
foundation would share in the residual return as the grid pays the borrower for his excess power. The foundation
can provide endowments for power departments at colleges. The coming demand, fueled by you and your
foundation, will create an industry of power technicians that marry the skills of the electrician, the plumber, the
mechanic, the gas man and the engineer.
The foundation can provide patent assistance for inventors and share in the fruits of their inventions. The
foundation may offer grants to inventors with the proviso that patents may not be sold, but only patent rights,
preventing deep-pocket consortiums from snapping up revolutionary patents and sequestering them in oblivion. A portion of the royalties would naturally revert to the foundation. Patent right purchasers that then make adaptations which increase the effectiveness of the device can be allowed a share of the royalties.
Your wind turbines point the way toward the answer. Your natural gas can be turned toward transportation,
supplanting costly imported crude oil that, with coal fired power plants, create pollution and contribute to global
warming.
I agree that a national power grid is essential to connect the windswept expanse of the Midwest to the
metropolitan northeast and West Coast. Your wish for a nartionwide electic grid, powered by your turbines and the idespread fruits of your foundation can also be affected swiftly. The rail system is already a nationwide grid with existing right-of-ways. The industry has used electric locomotives for much of the last century. Diesel power is only economical for the rail-lines because the electric infrastucture does not follow the rails and electricity is expensive. Mr. Pickens, for cheap electricity on their right-of-way, the railroads may well build your grid. You can start at Sweetwater and Pampa, where a rail-line right-of-way connects your windfarms to both Eastern and Western metropolitan areas. From Plainview, another rail-line right-of-way extends east to intersect with the main line from Colorado to Ft Worth. This line could connect your Plainview water system with the metroplex. It could
connect a wind farm with the ERCOT grid. It also bisects the Barnett Shale fields. Could these existing
right-of-ways be used to move the gas to market, avoiding the rancor and trimming the expense while axing the time needed to negotiate with thousands of landowners to secure condemnation or declaration of eminent domain against those opposed to it?
Mr. Pickens, you are the man of the hour. You have the ear of the wealthy and powerful. You have the vision, a vision of clean energy, economically produced. Your vision, combined with your business acumen and willingness to make the hard choices -and back them with your open purse- will lead our nation to energy independence. It will lso lead to a sustained economic recovery as the nation bounces back from the high cost of utilities and the price of fuel. Your foundation can nurture an entirely new industry, made in America, by Americans for first America, then our neighbors, then the world. This is true because your sustainable system translates well. As we generate excess power, we can sell it over the border, prompting the Mexican nation to build the necessary infrastructure to receive it and expand their own grid to the people. As they do so, Mexican industry will provide their people with
jobs, paying a wage adequate for the worker to purchase the fruits of his labor, the devices that we take for granted hat add to our comfort, make our work easier and provide us with leisure time to play , to dream, to travel and to spread our wealth through our economy, creating that rising tide that floats all boats.
It is my wish to learn your views about these thoughts. If I have not addressed other difficulties that you foresee, or have left out details, I hope that you would call them to my attention. If I can be of service in your quest, my email is phil.gray@sbcglobal.net. My address is PO Box 661 Tyler, Tx. 75710
in the meantime, i hope you'll re-double your efforts to encourage your friends and neighbors to sign up to support the pickens plan. we appreciate all your efforts!
EMAIL A LETTER TO YOUR REPRESENTATIVES BY USING OUR EASY RED "CONTACT CONGRESS" BUTTON
This is urgent, because the Energy Bill in Congress is in danger of not passing! With little effort, we have the ability here for you to send a letter to our Representatives in Washington and Governor, too. Go to THE PLEDGE (at the very top of this page on the blue header) On the top of the pledge page there are three rectangular buttons- two blue ones and ONE RED BUTTON, that reads "CONTACT CONGRESS". Fill in the short, standard form. Done!
You can also help by BRINGING 5 FOLKS TO JOIN the site today, so that we can build a voice big enough that Congress will finally have to listen to us, instead of the lobbyists and special interests, who are trying to derail this historic effort.
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THE PLEDGE on the main page. Print out 10 or more of them, get them signed and fax them back ASAP. When we are millions strong, we can achieve this.
THERE IS NO TIME TO DELAY
...to wait and see...or to see if someone else will step up to the plate. It is time for US to roll up our sleeves and go to work. Right now momentum is working in our favor, but if gas prices retreat, the public will forget the pain, and our moment may be lost.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Check out Pickens "August Call to Action"- for a course of action! Here is an informative video "Topeka, Kansas Town Hall Meeting": http://www.pickensplan.com/news/2008/08/04/video-of-the-topeka-town-hall
PERSONAL ACTION OPTIONS
We need to do more than “preach to the choir”. Sharing ideas with each other is encouraging but that will not 1) increase our membership nor 2) influence public policy. If you know someone in the press or someone who blogs, get them to cover this. Ask those in the public eye to support this plan.
A GROUP FOR EVERYONE Check out the many groups for Solar, CNG, your area, etc. Connect, learn and share. We grow stronger with your input. If you don't see a group that speaks to your interest, then start a group of your own.
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Thanks again for joining this historical effort. WE CAN DO THIS!
Dianna Brown
Festus, MO