Want a Better Way to Power Your Car? It's a Breeze

Why not use the wind-generated electricity to power cars directly? While many residents in some places take a NIMBY view of wind farms, the opposite is true, it’s a PIMBY (Put It in My Backyard) issue.

Legendary Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is half right. We do need to harness this country’s wind resources for a homegrown source of electricity, as he has been urging this summer in expensive television ads. And we do need to reduce the $700 billion we may soon be paying annually for imported oil. But part two of Pickens’s plan

Why not use the wind-generated electricity to power cars directly? Natural gas is still a fossil fuel that emits climate-changing gases when burned. Let’s cut the natural-gas middleman.

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