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    iThinkBig
    Aug 29 03:34 PM
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    Infrastructure Is Making News [view article]
    These are all good points and I don't disagree. Think I will start an export business next year. Reply
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    OUTOFGAS
    Aug 27 01:06 PM
    Wind's Our Future, but Natural Gas Is Now [view article]
    The exorbitant price of fuel has driven up the price of everything from the increased production and shipping costs. I have yet to hear more than a sugar coated one liner from either candidates as to their plans to bring Americans relief. Does either candidate even have a plan other than to support new off shore drilling. It is easy to say we need to decrease our dependence of foreign oil and seek out alternative fuel sources, but where's the beef...where's the plan?
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    McSpin
    Aug 26 10:04 PM
    How You Can Invest in the Pickens Plan [view article]
    Pch101, the point is, conservation is not the answer. Any significant amount would be the death of our economy. Extreme conservation would cause far more harm than good. It's last on my list of things to put into an energy plan. It's great for short term relief, but is a real drag for a long term energy strategy.

    And certainly energy independence is possible, just not for 30 years or more. It would take a plan and some advances in technology. If you think those are not likely to happen, then you haven't studied history and noticed what people do when pressed. Now, for the first time this country is starting to see some real pressure on our wallets in regards to energy purchases. If this keeps up, we'll find the workable replacements.

    I am anything but a Pickens supporter. Like I said, I've seen the wind farms up close and personal - they suck. But there is a place for some of the different energy technologies.Competiti... between them and among them will help eventually produce the energy independence we need. I don't expect it to happens anytime soon and any plan shouldn't be based on a short term goal either.     Reply
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    User 222098
    Aug 26 04:24 PM
    How You Can Invest in the Pickens Plan [view article]
    Mouse - what are you afraid of, do you think that windmills will slow down the earth's rotation, or what?
    Yes, I know about the "butterfly effect" and did know long before "Jurassic Partk).


    On Aug 22 01:14 PM mouse85 wrote:

    > All of these articles on wind power, yet I have never seen a mention
    > or consideration of the "butterfly effect". (Any Jurassic Park fans
    > out there?) Use of worldwide wind power could be more harmful to
    > our enviornment than carbon emissions from coal.     Reply
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    User 222098
    Aug 26 03:58 PM
    How You Can Invest in the Pickens Plan [view article]
    Plug in hybrids for cars, ok, but there are 200 mil cars in this country, how long do you think it would take to make a significant change using plug in hybrids. Ordinary hybrids are a fraud, must be plug in. With NG we can do conversions; sitting here on my street is a pickup truck that runs on NG or Propane.. As far as hydrogen, it appears to be only useful for things like a city bus or similar, not even likely economical for taxi cabs.


    On Aug 26 03:09 PM jtsymbo wrote:

    > You're right on target Pch101. Once again, we need to go nuclear
    > for electrical power, and pursue plug in hybrids for our cars. This
    > will help us get us through the transition period until possibly
    > hydrogen becomes feasible.     Reply
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    jtsymbo
    Aug 26 03:09 PM
    How You Can Invest in the Pickens Plan [view article]
    You're right on target Pch101. Once again, we need to go nuclear for electrical power, and pursue plug in hybrids for our cars. This will help us get us through the transition period until possibly hydrogen becomes feasible. Reply
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    Pch101
    Aug 25 11:51 PM
    How You Can Invest in the Pickens Plan [view article]
    McSpin, you miss the point.

    Pickens is selling a pipe dream that the US is going to become energy independent. The US has a snowball's chance in Hades of achieving energy independence.

    Energy independence cannot possibly be achieved in the United States without major lifestyle changes and reductions in commerce that Americans will simply not make, under any circumstances.

    The Pickens Scam is simply a corporate welfare scheme that will produce no bang for the buck for anyone, except for Pickens and his cronies. It's a pork barrel project that appeals to our base instincts and to those who can't do a bit of research or use a spreadsheet.     Reply
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    jtsymbo
    Aug 25 04:06 PM
    How You Can Invest in the Pickens Plan [view article]
    Just traveled up interstate 580 to San Francisco. Windmill farms everywhere. Boy are they ugly and if we are to replace coal fired electrical plants they'll be everywhere and we'll regret it. I say nuclear!! Reply
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    tim443
    Aug 25 12:52 PM
    How You Can Invest in the Pickens Plan [view article]
    Power poles, gonna need a lot of those Reply
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    McSpin
    Aug 25 10:49 AM
    How You Can Invest in the Pickens Plan [view article]
    Pch101, if you think the US, with a growing population, is going to significantly cut it's energy usage without utterly destroying the economy, then the joke is on you. Conservation is an element in any good plan, but only one of many important facets. To rely on that above all else, is utterly ridiculous.

    Pennystocks2, you're right. No one in their right mind would want to live within sight of a windfarm. I've seen them up close and personal for an extended period of time, and they are akin to chinese water torture. Fortunately, there are places on the Great Plains, where no one lives and no one would want to.     Reply
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    WEBISKING
    Aug 24 02:52 PM
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    How You Can Invest in the Pickens Plan [view article]
    Pickens like him or not is offering an actual plan which has been devoid in washington for ever Reply
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    pennystocks2
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    Aug 23 03:05 PM
    How You Can Invest in the Pickens Plan [view article]
    I have no clue what or where the Great Plains are, but we have tens of thousands of wind towers over here in Germany. They are ugly, deface the landscape, are noisy as hell and throw shadows that are half a mile long. House prices plummet whenever there is a wind farm developed nearby. Moreover, wind is an unreliable energy source. People will come to realize that wind power is only a pretty epensive fad and does nothing to relieve us from our dependence on oil and nuclear power. I would not bet my money on wind power stocks. Nonetheless I own GE stock, but for other reasons than wind power turbines. Reply
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    Pch101
    Aug 23 01:26 PM
    How You Can Invest in the Pickens Plan [view article]
    The Pickens Scam is really a joke for anyone aside from Pickens and his investors. Not because windmills are bad -- they're fine, and we could probably use a few more of them -- but because he is boldly lying when he claims that paying more for his windmills will do anything to make the US energy independent.

    Even in the best case scenario, it's a drop in the bucket. It is simply impossible to generate enough wind power that it could meaningfully reduce US usage of natural gas for electricity generation and to divert that to powering motor vehicles.

    Anyone who spends ten minutes with the numbers can see this. Most electricity in the US is generated from coal, and most natural gas is not used to create electricity. Even if you could reduce electricity generation from natural gas by 10% (a totally unrealistic assumption, by the way), you would only reduce demand for natural gas by about 3%. The math does not compute.

    Ultimately, the Pickens Scam would make the US even **more** dependent upon imported energy, because the US lower 48 is depleting what is left.

    Over time, the US is destined to import more of its gas from foreign sources, which means more money for the countries that have it, such as Russia and Iran. In other words, the usual suspects.

    The Pickens Scam ultimately appeals to the greed and stupidity of the American voter, who doesn't want to accept the reality that the quickest route to using less imported energy is to consume less energy.

    That means downgrading your lifestyle and figuring out how to use less energy, even if it means walking, using public transit or just staying home. Americans apparently lost their rationing gene sometime around 1945, and they are bound and determined to never, ever get it back.

    (None of this is a criticism of the article, by the way. I'm watching GE, too, but I doubt that Pickens can buy enough windmills to do much for their fundamentals.)     Reply
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    apeakay
    Aug 22 10:53 PM
    How You Can Invest in the Pickens Plan [view article]
    With regard to all the Pickens Plan bashing (too costly, doesn't address the whole scenario, he's in it for personal profit (of course he is; what successful businessman wouldn't figure in profit, and besides, isn't profit the basis for Capitalism?)), at least he proposing some type of solution for our problem. Maybe he's right, maybe he's wrong, but at least he's doing more than our useless, impotent Congress and President. Nobody else seems to be getting off their butt to fix IT. Reply
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    Blue collar
    guy
    Aug 22 07:46 PM
    How You Can Invest in the Pickens Plan [view article]
    To the John Kerry Lover:

    There was nothing scurilous about the Swift Boat program to demolish a politician that needed to be demolished since he laid claim to heroics that apparently most of his own sailors chose to dispute. All Pickens did was spend a little of his own money to support the effort and let it happen. "Scurilous" indeed, the attack was out in the open, nothing secret, names named, books written and NOBODY SUED FOR SLANDER OR ANYTHING ELSE. That ought to tell you something about Senator Kerry.     Reply

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