T. Boone Pickens Asks For Your Help… We Say NO!
January 29, 2009
Disclaimer from FedUpEditor: We do not support special interest spending, no matter what it is for. If the industry is viable as they claim wind power is, then it should be able to make it on its own merit. After all, HP was started in a garage without government money! So let’s just say “NO” to Boone. – FedUpEditor
From the desk of T. Boone Pickens
The U.S. House of Representatives is going to vote on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (which we all know as the “Stimulus Package”) next week. Probably Wednesday.
The Bill has a great deal of the Pickens Plan in it. It’s not everything we need, but it’s a strong start in the area of wind energy. Wind energy has been one of the few winners over the past 12 months and it was a record year for installations and for new jobs. The Stimulus Package will build on this success and keep moving wind energy forward in the face of this economic crisis.
The Stimulus Package has to get over the finish line – which means the U.S. Senate must pass a bill and both the House and the Senate have to work out any differences.
I need you to call your Member of Congress, as well as the Leadership in the U.S. House, to tell them this is a good first step, but more needs to be done. Implementing wind and solar aspects of the Pickens Plan will provide significant environmental benefits long term, but if we are to seriously reduce our dependence on foreign oil (and the national and economic threats it poses), then we have to get serious about replacing foreign oil, gasoline and diesel with domestic fuels, particularly natural gas.
We need incentives to promote natural gas trucks if we are to make a real dent in our foreign oil imports. We’ll keep working with them and I need you to tell them how much the New Energy Army supports what they’re doing and hopes they’ll keep doing more.
Please call Congress today. Visit your District Group page to coordinate with others in your Congressional District and to let us know about your efforts to contact your Member of Congress about this important piece of legislation.
-Boone
Picken’s Plan… Who Wins?
August 18, 2008
It is our opinion that Pickens is a shrewd business man. For months he has been running ads to push his wind power agenda. Wind may prove to be a viable alternative fuel at some point, but it is no substitute for gasoline.
Today we received an e-mail from “Pickens Plan” saying that he had met with both Obama and McCain and again pushed his agenda to end our “addiction to foreign oil”. As you may know, we oppose this depiction of our situation.
We are only using foreign oil because liberal Democrats have taken over the energy debate and pushed their agenda on us. Not because we are “addicted” to foreign oil. What other choice have they left us? If Republicans push drilling they are in with the big oil. Of we don’t drill, we are dependent on foreign oil. And whose fault is that???
Wind will NEVER replace gasoline as long as we have internal combustion engines. Oil is still the best source of energy for travel AND all the plastic products we use everyday. And we need to start drilling NOW!!!
Pickens Plan – Reducing our Dependence on Foreign Oil?
July 10, 2008
We should put this in the humor section. Windmills for cars? We saw a piece Sunday Morning with an interview on ex-oil man, T. Boone Pickens [clueless]. Apparently he thinks we are stupid. Does he think Katie Couric is stupid? His proposal is to have windmills replace oil imports… Our respose: Huh?
Windmills create electricity and so far no cars run on electricity only. Hybrids generate their own electricity so they wouldn’t use energy from his product anyway. In fact, the ones that do use only a battery can travel a very short distance. Imagine how much produce would cost for truckers to get across country with an electric engine that only gets 30-50 miles per charge! Besides, the food would spoil. But the blurb on his website reads, “How can we reduce our dependence on foreign oil?” The answer is DOMESTIC DRILLING, not wind turbines!
While we support alternative sources like wind and solar, it will not help lower gas prices or reduce our dependence on foreign oil as his promo promises. Right now coal and hydroelectric produce most of our electricity, not oil! And did you know that wind power is subsidized by the government because it costs more to produce than it earns in the market place? That’s our money, folks. Our taxes go to subsidize his business. How many of you get government grants to run your business? Look, if he’s a rich Texas oil man, let him use his own money, not money paid in taxes by POOR people!
Congressman John Peterson – an American hero!
June 17, 2008
Glenn Beck had Congressman John Peterson on his show again today, a man who refuses to give up on his ideas for broadening our energy independence. He is reintroducing his legislation to Congress in hopes that Americans will wake up and urge their representatives to support the bill (see our Action Items). Here’s what he said on the show:
I decided we need to start this today and that’s what we’ve done. Across the country. And now we’re approaching 70% of the American public who support offshore production of energy and only 18% oppose and 15% are undecided. And I predict that when the rest of that 15% listen to the facts, we’re going to be close to 85% support of energy offshore. Because Americans, you know, what America doesn’t know yet is that natural gas yesterday was $12.93. That’s approaching $13. If that continues to climb in the next month or two, we’ll have a doubling of natural gas costs to heat homes this winter. We’re putting that $12.93 gas in the ground to heat homes because we start in the summer and then we burn it in the winter when it’s cold. And last year at this time it was $6.50 to $7. It wouldn’t take long to figure out we’re soon going to be doubling natural gas prices and when that happens, I don’t know how the middle class and poor in this country are going to drive their car and heat their homes.
This guy is a hero. Read the rest of the transcript here.
Environmentalists oppose oil shale
June 16, 2008
Are we surprised? Environmentalists are bereft of ideas… all they do is oppose those that do have them and want to improve our lives. It’s time to tell your representatives (Republican or Democrat) that we are fed up with overy burdensome environmental controls. That’s doesn’t mean we are against clean air and clean water. It just means sensible solutions should not be ignored just because environmentalists don’t approve of them.
Glenn Beck interviewed Congressman Chris Cannon from Utah today about his proposal to develop oil shale as a means of increasing oil supply and thereby lowering gas prices. Read the story here. To quote Congressman Cannon:
You know, if we’re going to bring down the price of gas, you have to have three things. You have to have a big reserve, you have to have the ability to develop oil out of that reserve quickly, and you have to be able to produce oil at a relatively low cost. And that’s oil shale.
In Utah and Colorado and to some degree in Wyoming we have an amazing amount of oil. If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it’s like three times as much as all of that combined and that’s just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available. And long term if we change the technology, perhaps as many as 4 trillion, with a T, 4 trillion barrels of oil. There’s enough, marginally if we just supplied all of our use in America instead of importing oil, it would be enough for 100 years or so.
There’s just no energy crisis in the world. There’s a regulatory crisis. So what I’ve done is I’ve introduced a bill that would give the President the authority to draw people together that can understand these issues in government and to sit down with people that want to develop that shale and say, okay, let’s figure out what you need to do to do it in an appropriate, careful, environmental manner and then let’s go forward with it. And that would mean fairly quick production of oil and that would have a big impact on the price of gas at the pump.
Go to Glenn Beck’s website to read the rest of the interview.
Honda makes fuel-cell car
June 16, 2008
Great… if you live near a hydrogen fueling station. This is not a soluton for most of us. In fact, 2 of the first 5 people who have ordered the car are MOVIE STARS Jamie Lee Curtis and Christopher Guest! Eternal optimists that they are, where are they going to fuel up?
In a Reuters, UK article today,
Honda kicked off production on Monday of its newest fuel-cell car, as the car-maker gears up for the battle to dominate the market for next-generation vehicles.
Honda’s FCX Clarity, a sporty-looking fuel-cell saloon, came off the production line in Tochigi, north of Tokyo. The assembly line is Honda’s first to be dedicated to building fuel-cell vehicles.
The FCX Clarity will be sold through a newly established fuel-cell vehicle dealership network in the United States from July, Honda said. In Japan, sales are slated to start in autumn.
Supposedly it produces no carbond dioxide, but I can’t wait to see what complaint the environmentalists come up with to oppose this one!
