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Open Letter to Boone Pickens

Fitz,
There is no doubt whatsoever in my mind that we should be doing everything we can as a nation to develop natural gas as our primary transportation fuel.

The dollar drain on our economy; the negative foreign policy entanglements; the national security issues all represent crises that must be addressed and utilizing natural gas is a doable and available solution to solving those problems.

No one believes that natural gas is the ultimate energy solution, but we need to have a functioning mobile nation while we transition to solar, wind, geothermal and other sources of energy. If we have as the experts have stated, something like 50 to a 100 years' worth of natural gas reserves, that should give us a sufficient time to perfect future energy technology. (And install the infrastructure that will be required to support the new technolgy) Added exploration is INCREASING American gas reserves--not so for crude oil.

Continuation of the "policy" (?) of importing 12 million barrels of crude every day is endangering and ultimately bankrupting America not to mention the disastrous foreign policy catastrophies we have witnessed in support of such idiocy.

Congress must be forced or threatened into action as their inaction since the Arab oil embargo of 1973 rather proves they won't do a damn thing without holding their collective feet to the fire.

Thanks for the excellent post.

The Case for Natural Gas Powered Transportation

I also am a member of the Pickens Plan and own some natural gas royalties.

But regardless of my meager involvement in the natural gas industry, I would be for any rational, doable plan that will lessen our strangling dependency on OPEC. Can anyone explain the sanity in sending our "petro-dollars" to provide the financial means to fund Islamic terrorists? Simply, there is no sane explanation.

With the recent so-called "unconventional" natural gas discoveries, reservoir engineers--the guys that calculate what gas formations are capable of producing have indicated that currently there is enough American natural gas at current usage rates to power this nation for as long as 118 years. If those projections are overly optimistic half their projection would be almost 60 years---surely a more than sufficient time to develop to develop solar based alternatives.

Natural gas as compressed natural gas (CNG) is a cleaner, cheaper and abundant motor vehicle fuel and All American to the Boone 'er, Bone! The quicker we convert the country to CNG the sooner we can give OPEC that one finger salute. For me, that can't come too soon.