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A Fuel Debate Between T. Boone Pickens vs. Fred Smith

first we need to check with the scholars of green movement and ask them if it is okay to actually increase the range of driving for a given carbon print using hybrid (well it depends on the power plant transformation as well). In either case -with gas or diesel it is possible to increase the economy of driving for the future. But I don't see talking heads normally holed up in coastal metro areas ready to honor an increase in energy efficiency since they will lose control over car manuf designs. With increased efficiency one might still buy an SUV.

Both plans have too much sense as a migration to better tech down the road though diesel is really overhyped particularly with other collateral air issues. In pickens plan one cell tower is fought over in certain towns -here we are going to ridge the most majestic mountains in the Rocky mtns for thousands of miles - not butying that they will be hidden in only valleys -ask other environ groups.

Nobody mentions if we do allow draconian carbon taxes to establish we effectively will be writing down our own proven and unproven reserves in oil and gas in the US - sounds like a massive massive trillion dollar hit to the oil industry and US treasury and our future generations. We never gave our industry the chance to establish a sovereign wealth fund like other oil producing nations where many generations are enriched by slowing oil develop in other nations through cartel pricing and praising global warming to foreigners and drilling like mad in their waters.