T. Boone Pickens: Let’s transform energy — with natural gas

11 Comments on "T. Boone Pickens: Let’s transform energy — with natural gas"

Davy, Hermann, MO on Wed, 5th Mar 2014 6:24 pm 



I will give Pickens a hand. He has not wavered with his pitch on NatGas. He also put his money where his mouth was with wind. His motivation is profit so we understand his motivation. I am sold on NatGas supporting alternative energy with backup for the inevitable variability. I do not support NatGas in widespread transport use. Long distance trucking is a good transportation niche for NatGas. I do not support a big expansion of electricity from NatGas. I do not support NatGas exports. Focus our remaining gas on heating and chemical feedstock’s. In any case the markets will veto these other nontraditional uses for NatGas

keith on Wed, 5th Mar 2014 7:09 pm 



Some climatologists say the human species may go extinct in the next 100 years! NatGas just adds to the cumulative effect of Climate change, but, who alive today, cares about what happens in the next hundred years.

Northwest Resident on Wed, 5th Mar 2014 7:17 pm 



“…who alive today, cares about what happens in the next hundred years.”

Answer: Anybody with a social conscience and a sense of responsibility to their children, or even more broadly, a sense of responsibility to planet earth and the human race. That would be me. I’m sure you’re included in that group too, keith, and you’re just trying to make a point.

DC on Wed, 5th Mar 2014 8:12 pm 



This is a year old. Not that this old puffy amerikan windbag has new to say-he doesn’t. All this guy wants is the uS taxpayer to subsidize his fossil-fooled ‘vision’ of the NG ‘future’ to the same degree they oil corporations have enjoyed for a century. He’s still upset washington wont give him taxpayer money to subsidize his fantasies. But they have other priorities, more war spending, destabilizing foreign gov’ts they dont like, welfare for nuclear plants, welfare for Wall St and so on. NG subsidies to the level he demands, not really on washingtons radar…..

Pickens is already rich(and nearly dead too), why he invests so much energy trying to carve out a piece of the amerikan corporate dream(endless subsides) is beyond me. Corporate welfare *already* made this guy rich-and he still wants more. Lifetime of habits are hard to break I guess. He is rich enough now to fall asleep in front of a 100 inch TV watching Matlock reruns on the equally monopolistic uS cable tv networks. And hes rich enough not to have to worry that his senility and rheumatism pills will bankrupt him, unlike 90% or more of his fellow citizens.

Nony on Wed, 5th Mar 2014 9:00 pm 



Don’t let perfect be the enemy of better. Going to gas is better for our economic and national security and even puts less carbon in the air. Go gas, beat gasoline!

Northwest Resident on Wed, 5th Mar 2014 9:26 pm 



Nony — Have you paid attention to the extreme prohibitive costs and nearly impossible logistics of converting transportation to NG in America, much less the world? Have you given any thought to how much NG would be required to replace gas as a transportation fuel? Do you honestly believe that there is enough fossil fuel left in the world to power the machines of industry that would be required to replace gas/diesel vehicles with NG-powered vehicles, or the amount of investment and debt that would be needed to even get the ball rolling? Sorry, Nony, it just seems to me that you’re lost in la-la land sometimes with the comments you make here.

Boat on Wed, 5th Mar 2014 9:40 pm 



The headwinds will be strong when it comes to NG as a fuel to semis now that a 75% increase in mpg has been achieved. One of Pickens big selling points.

Pops on Wed, 5th Mar 2014 9:40 pm 



Pickens is a raider, money for nothing is his bag. He bet for years on peak gas by buying up leases and has simply switched horses now to jump on the fracking glut bandwagon.

His book “First Billion is the Hardest” is a pretty good read and good insight into how he prodded corporate America (namely Gulf Oil) to change focus from long term to short term profits.

Salute!

GregT on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 5:08 am 



“Go gas, beat gasoline!”

It really is too bad that we ran out of time and resources to invent mass space travel. The environmentalists could have lived on one planet, while the BAU crowd could have destroyed the other. They even could have named the BAU planet; La-La land. Maybe that really is what happened to Venus?

Jayson Feltner on Thu, 6th Mar 2014 3:20 pm 



Not only can Natural Gas make us energy independent and reduce our dependence on oil, but it could quickly topple our current import heavy foreign policy.

With turmoil in Ukraine, the USA has an amazing opportunity to free Europe from their dependence on Russia.

Kenz300 on Fri, 7th Mar 2014 11:05 am 



The transition away from fossil fuels has begun.

As the price of alternatives continue to fall the pace of transition will increase.

http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/the-take/the-energy-transition-tipping-point-is-here/?tag=nl.e662&s_cid=e662&ttag=e662&ftag=TRE383a915