The Pickens Profile You Haven’t Read

Democrats talk at the Denver convention about creating and keeping American jobs and producing American energy..

Arco Oil Company was considered the jewell of all American oil companies for having explored and developed the Alaskan North Slope and at one time owning eighty percent of our proven Alaskan oil reserves. Arco Oil Company was subsequently bought out later by foreign owned British Petroleum during the second administration of Bill Clinton. The point of this comment is twofold. The long-term hostility of the Democratic Party leadership toward United States owned energy companies has led to the sale of United States oil companies to foreign interests and that nuclear power plants can even be located next to wonderful wildlife and park areas and make good unobtrusive neighbors. Arco Oil Company with its substantial Alaskan oil reserves should have bought out British Petroleum instead of the other way around. Comanche Peak in Glen Rose the last nuclear power plant built in the United States symbolizes the death of the American owned nuclear power industry and the decline of United States owned oil companies due to the hostile business environment created by Democratic Party leadership.
Sinclair Oil Company and Arco Oil no longer exist, British Petroleum has replaced them under the second Democratic administration of Bill Clinton.

Democrats talk at the Denver convention about creating and keeping American jobs.
Ironically the building that housed the largest research and development division of Arco Oil Company in Texas was sold by British Petroleum to Perot Systems and now serves as its headquarters. Perot Systems was founded by Ross Perot who previously created EDS Electronic Data Systems and who most importantly has been credited with throwing the 1992 to Bill Clinton by drawing off many independent voters who would have voted Republican for George Bush senior. Perot Systems derives a significant amount of its business from state and federal contracts. A building that used to house American engineers, geologists, scientists, logistics people and ordinary employees who worked for an American owned oil company that strived to fill the gas tank for the average American now houses a company that focuses on giving computer support on state and the federal government social service contracts. This is the Democratic Party version of a success story. Outsourced government work under Bill Clinton replaces a former American owned world admired jewell of the oil industry that had provided gas for the American gas tank and many good American jobs for many years.

Does the Democratic leadership under Barack Obama expect current electric power plants to provide all the huge electricity requirements to recharge and power all the new hybrid and electric cars will be coming on line. There will have to be new power plants built and these must be nuclear plants. If Democrats think that wind or solar will recharge all of these new cars, they have to be joking because the wind does not blow all the time. The new sources of additional electricity to charge up all these cars will have to come from nuclear energy.
Why is there such an ingrained irrational paranoia about nuclear energy and waste disposal among some Americans especially the Democratic leadership under the direction of Barack Obama. Importantly also why is it somehow okay for hundreds of thousands of Navy sailors to have served for nearly thirty-five years aboard nuclear power American aircraft carriers and nuclear powered submarines and air force personnel to handle nuclear bombs but Democratic leadership under Barack Obama will not consider to even remotely assume any risks involved with nuclear power. Is it okay for our servicemen to be exposed to alleged risks but not the Democratic leadership who oppose nuclear power. This paranoia is particular evident with the Democrats acceptance of risks that are associated with other aspects of modern American living. Forty thousand people die every year in the United States in auto accidents but there is no outcry to ban all automobiles in the United States. Bridges have collapsed recently in Minnesota and tunnels ceilings in Boston have fallen but there is no consensus on eliminating bridges or tunnels. There have been airplane crashes that have also involved injuries on the ground but there is no outcry to ban air travel. There have been repeated rail and ship accidents but no outcry to ban railroads or ship travel. The irrational fear involving nuclear power and waste disposal has no justification. American people undergo multiple medical and dental xrays and CT scans yearly and have no fear. TSA airport screeners and medical staff work daily around xray equipment, fluoroscopes, and CT machines and do not experience adverse health consequences as a result of their work exposure. There were no documented adverse health events associated with the Three Mile Island release of minor radiation in the 1970s and no payments for health losses were ever made involving lawsuits related to that accident. The containment vessel held at Three Mile Island. In light of most Americans acceptance of risks associated with automobiles, trains, planes, and ships, the fear on the part of the Democratic leadership of nuclear power can not be viewed as rational. John McCain's proposals to build 45 new nuclear power plants along with his other energy proposals on conservation and renewable energy will help America achieve relative energy independence in the near term and long term.

While camping and attending a bluegrass music festival, I took a tour of Comanche Peak Power Plant,the last nuclear power plant built in the United States. The plant is unobtrusive and is at perfect harmony with its environment. It is located near Glen Rose Texas a beautiful area that has bluegrass band festivals in the summer. It is a wonderful scenic country area and home to Dinosaur World and a state park. There are dinosaur tracks from 100 million years ago along the riverbed that can be seen some say are heading in the direction of New York City. The Brazos river flows through and the place is an environmental heaven. There is old green Sinclair Oil Company dinasour statue that stands at the park. Ironically most of the stations and assets of Sinclair Oil Company was bought by Arco Oil Company. Arco Oil Company was a jewell of an American oil company that explored and developed the Alaskan North Slope and at one time owned eighty percent of our Alaskan oil reserves. Arco Oil Company was subsequently bought out later by foreign owned British Petroleum during the second administration of Bill Clinton. The point of this comment is twofold. Democratic hostility toward United States owned energy companies has led to the sale of United States oil companies to foreign interests and that nuclear power plants can even be located next to wonderful wildlife and park areas and make good unobtrusive neighbors. Nuclear power is a friend of the environment and does not emit green house gases.

??? If you think about it John McCain plan for forty-five new nuclear power plants is reasonable, needed and attainable. Our current 108 nuclear power plants supply twenty (20) percent of our electricity requirements. This is amazing considering that it has been thirty years since there has been new construction on new nuclear power plants anywhere in the United States. Construction on new nuclear power plants has occurred throughout the world but not in the United States thanks to Democratic leadership. In France, nuclear power supplies 80 percent of their electricity needs. Because 108 nuclear power plants are generating twenty percent of our needs, an additional 45 nuclear power plants will only increase the percentage of nuclear power to roughly 28 percent of our needs well short of French eighty percent nuclear power generation of electricity. John McCain proposals are reasonable and will help lead us to energy independence. Democrats under the leadership of Barack Obama want to study the issue for another 30 years. By that time the only remaining United States builder of nuclear power plants General Electric will have gone the way of Westinghouse and sold its nuclear construction division to a foreign owned company Toshiba Corporation of Japan. Given the Democratic led hostile business environment for nuclear power in the United States, we will have no United States owned companies capable of building nuclear power plants.

The reality is that a few nuclear power plants will have a greater contribution to our energy independence than all the contributions of solar, wind, and thermal energy. Only the proposals of John McCain on nuclear power, offshore drilling, wind, and solar energy will make the idea of United States energy independence a reality.

With all the hype about hybrids and oil and coal, there is a solution to car design that would reduce our dependence on oil and allow a more free infrastructure for car hybrids.
My solution is the combination of several ideas that have already been put forth.
1. Make cars hybrids that run on battery for the first 4o or 50 miles, but then switch over to engine powered by natural gas (not gasoline) after that. The engine would power the car and recharge the battery. This would also give the car free heating and have the power to run the AC for those places that are cold and hot respectively.
2. Create home versions of natural gas pumps (already seen in some media shows) that the consumer could use directly from his own gas line. This could be the equivalent of going to the gas station, but in your own driveway instead.
3. Create a highway infrastructure to allow motorists to travel longer than the tank in the car will hold. Essentially replacing or adding to (for now) the normal operations of exisiting gas stations.

This would lessen the need for oil, use the enormous supply of natural gas (which can be bioconverted in the future) and burns cleaner than other forms of fossil fuels. Yes, it's still a hydrocarbon, but helps answers many issues that are plaguing the conversion from gasoline and the issues around crude oil supplies.

With all the hype about hybrids and oil and coal, there is a solution to car design that would reduce our dependence on oil and allow a more free infrastructure for car hybrids.
My solution is the combination of several ideas that have already been put forth.
1. Make cars hybrids that run on battery for the first 4o or 50 miles, but then switch over to engine powered by natural gas (not gasoline) after that. The engine would power the car and recharge the battery. This would also give the car free heating and have the power to run the AC for those places that are cold and hot respectively.
2. Create home versions of natural gas pumps (already seen in some media shows) that the consumer could use directly from his own gas line. This could be the equivalent of going to the gas station, but in your own driveway instead.
3. Create a highway infrastructure to allow motorists to travel longer than the tank in the car will hold. Essentially replacing or adding to (for now) the normal operations of exisiting gas stations.

This would lessen the need for oil, use the enormous supply of natural gas (which can be bioconverted in the future) and burns cleaner than other forms of fossil fuels. Yes, it's still a hydrocarbon, but helps answers many issues that are plaguing the conversion from gasoline and the issues around crude oil supplies.

What is wrong with using every US available source of energy, whether it is fossil fuels, renewable or biofuels? While one side ONLY focuses on renewable energy, they COMPLETELY conveniently forget about TRANSPORTATION ENERGY.

Electricity appears to be a LONG way off before it can be used on jets, 18-wheelers, boats and ships. Until either that happens or until "Scotty can BEAM us up", we are going to need fossil fuels for transportation.

There needs to be a bridge between now and Utopia. Unless there is a mixture for not only electrical energy, but also a mixture of USA sources of transportation energy, the prices of gas will continue to rise to the point only the wealthy and politicians will be able to afford to drive and fly. The rich will be richer and the poor will be the outcast masses.

The extremists in both parties are guided by their personal wealth sources - some by oil, others by their investments in wind (not solar) energy and both by their special interest lobbyists and campaign funding.

It was the Gang of 10, 5 moderate Democrats and 5 moderate Republicans that came up with a well-balanced mixture of fossil fuels, renewable energy and biofuels. It is the moderates who we must turn to in order to get anything done that is productive for our country. It is the moderates who we need to lead the two parties - or breakaway and form a moderate Unity Party for the welfare of our country.

Given the opposition from coal and its related companies I would suggest that no less than very very deep pockets can withstand the opposition to wind energy. The problem is Americans have a single electric power connection to a highly regulated electricity market that does not reward clean energy over dirty energy.

We need a carbon tax and an energy import tax immedialetly.

We need a totally free market for energy with a tax on emergy import and a carbon tax. Then let the free market take off.

Wind and solar are the only long long run energy sources that will not run out as oil prices fluctuate wildy - thank you Iran, Russia and Chavez.

When I hear of millions of Americans without work I cannot undersdtand why we are importing oil and not making our own electric cars and plugging them in to our own electric grid and using solar and wind energy to power the grid.

All major scientific studies have proven that a vast solar array spread throughout the American southwest combined with offshore wind in the great lakes as well as the Atlantic coast combined with about 1,000,000 wind turbines scattered in America's heartland will disconnect the American economy from oil, natural gas, coal and urnanium. The cost? Less than one Iraqi war! If we are willing to spend $1 trillion on a war that none of us can figure out, control or understand why not spend $1 trillion for American job growth and sustainable energy security.

Everytime I fill up my car with gasoline I cannot help but think that this is poison for the American economy.

Pickens is the only leader that in a meaningful way is pushing renewables. Will he make money at it and pay taxes? yes. Will the project cost more than he is projecting ? yes. I think the amount that he will make will be less and less as the grid becomes more sophisticated allowing for more and more entrants. This is not unlike the .com era. We need action now.

What I fear are the repercussions on the alternative energy industry should he fail, as he has before... Blog on this here: http://autodidacticdropout.wordpress.com/

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Mr. Pickens makes a lot of sense. We should stop the flow of dollars abroad. Instead, we should use the savings to build our own infrastructure and improve the standard of living and the comfort level of our own citizens. We should embark on a mission, at the highest level, to make ourselves Energy Independent. It will require several initiatives and implementation of several schemes. Wind energy can contribute significantly to this goal. It is cost effective and provides returns at the fastest rate. You install a turbine generator and it starts producing power. They can be manufactured in the US, transported to site and installed. A large number of US citizens favor Mr. Pickens Plan. A group of People desire to supplement Mr. Pickens Plan and have posted a People's Petition for your review and endorsement. The Petition may be reviewed and endorsed at

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/windenergycorporation

The Peition is approximately 1000 words. It will provide a fixed amount of money, in good and bad times, for harnessing of wind energy. It will create jobs in the US, It will encourage inventions and innovations. It will create a Corporation, held in Trust for the People that will supplement Social Security when we have become energy independent. It will also reduce pollution in our cities and global warming. It is a Win-Win proposal. Over 450 citizens from all walks of life, from different parties, of different economic status have already endorsed it. Will you please also endorse it and forward it to your friends. When we are United we cab achieve our goal.
Thanks,

Alankar Gupta

Greetings,

Mr. Pickens makes a lot os sense. We should aim at reducing the flow of money abroad. It will take several initiatives. Wind energy is one of them. A large number of citizens, over 450, have signed a People's Petition to supplement Pekins Plan. Your endorsement will be appreciated. The Petition (approximately 1000 words) may be viewed and endorsed at
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/windenergycorporation
It is People's Petition. Thank you.
Alankar Gupta

he is just another snake in the grass ... watch out or you will get bitten, too....

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Tragically, Americans are thinking with their pocketbooks and not science. Slathering the Earth with windmills and constructing and paving and killing the physical body of our living, ecosystem dependent Earth with more and more solar panels and monsterous windmills is only going to accomplish killing more and more of Earth. Ecologically, it boils down to one issue only. The salvation and protection of Earth's ecosystems.

I witnessed these monsterous windmill factories slapped all over a desert ecosystem, and they might as well have drilled for oil or slathered the ecosystem with dead, hot, hot concrete. Nothing could leach out a living in that ecosystem ever again! Killing ecosystems with solar panels and windmills is about as sane as an oil spill!

This oilman is no more ecologically literate than Bush, the most anti-Earth president in history. Comparing this Earth-killer with Gore is comparable to comparing Bush to any ecological literate like Dr. Erhlich, professor and writer. The most grave issue facing all of mankind is the salvation and protection of Earth's ecosystems. Mankind is far more dependent upon oxygen than fuels. Many scientists believe Earth has lost the capacity to store CO2, the planet is heating up [ecosystems are in the eco-nomics of climate] and Earth's biogeochemistry & cycles that loop from the seas to the land are scrambling.

Ecosystems are in the ECO NOMICS of life, and our Earth is not one giant slot machine. Earth is a living planet based on definitive natural laws and because of living, life-gifting ecosystems. Killing ecosystems and biological diversity is like playing Russian roulette with nuclear war. Listen to this oilman! Might as well give Bush the Nobel Peace Prize!