The new T. Boone Pickens ad: What do you think?

[Ophelia]

I don't know what he's really up to, but I think it's pretty telling when an old oil man like Pickens is sounding the alarm about diminishing oil supplies. And $700 billion a year leaving this country for foreign nations, the greatest transfer of wealth in human history? Now that's scary!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bOug1d20c

[eugene40]

I don't know what he's really up to, but I think it's pretty telling when an old oil man like Pickens is sounding the alarm about diminishing oil supplies. And $700 billion a year leaving this country for foreign nations, the greatest transfer of wealth in human history? Now that's scary!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2bOug1d20c

I saw that commercial for the first time last night. It is interesting, I am not sure what he is up to either. And he doesn't really say, he eludes to a lot but it could be when it boils down to it. He promoting the drilling of our own resources.

I am interesting in some of the new windmill tech. I was watching some program where it wasn't the standard windmill with the blades tech. It looked like a wind turbine but an open air type. It would be more used for personal home use. Which is interesting, especially if your house is in a windy area. Could run a good deal of your home.

In truth it isn't going to be one big technology that is going to replace everything. It is going to take a combined technology from different areas in order to alleviate the problem. Both on the grand scale of things and on a personal level.

[Missouri Mule]

Personally, I found it to be one of the most intelligent and informative commercials I have ever seen aired. Unlike the blowhards that populate the Congress, Pickens actually knows what he is talking about.

If we utilized the wind that comes across the prairies to power wind turbines it would be substantial. I once drove across South Dakota on Highway 80 and I had to hang on to the steering wheel for nearly 400 miles, it was blowing so hard. Ditto in Wyoming. Nobody lives there but the problem is the transmission lines. No one wants them on their property. We have them in west Texas by the hundreds in addition to all of the oil and gas wells, refineries and such. Texas is already doing its part. If only California would put them up near San Francisco by Nancy Pelosi's house to catch the political wind storms there we would shortly be energy sufficient.

[pragmatic]

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YouTube also has a couple of 10 minute clips where Pickens goes into the details. Interesting, maybe promising......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avt8Yo2WE14&NR=1

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[Demon of Light]

The interesting part is he's talking about natural gas as an alternative vehicle fuel. One report I read indicated dry oil fields could be turned into natural gas fields using microbes.

[Crosscheck]

Don't know if it was that groundbreaking. We all know that we have become used to having an endless supply of cheap oil. But just because some guy from Texas gets on to talk straight talk still makes me wonder what is his motive. He could be patriotic and want to do something for our country.
I just hope this isn't another Ron Popeil infocommercial.

[Missouri Mule]

Don't know if it was that groundbreaking. We all know that we have become used to having an endless supply of cheap oil. But just because some guy from Texas gets on to talk straight talk still makes me wonder what is his motive. He could be patriotic and want to do something for our country.

I just hope this isn't another Ron Popeil infocommercial.

I think he is considered to be a straight shooter. He is 80 years old, has four billion and doesn't need any more money. He wants to break the political logjam that has hamstrung our energy policies for 35 years. We've got to get serious about this finally.

Just as a FYI, Toyota is going to build more Prius hi-brids in Mississippi. Converting from SUVs. Announced today. Meanwhile GM is down even more and teetering on the abyss of bankruptcy.

[ScummyD]

The interesting part is he's talking about natural gas as an alternative vehicle fuel. One report I read indicated dry oil fields could be turned into natural gas fields using microbes.
So you burn the natural gas? Which would produce CO2, right? The 21st century catastrophists would go psychotic.

[ScummyD]

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YouTube also has a couple of 10 minute clips where Pickens goes into the details. Interesting, maybe promising......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Avt8Yo2WE14&NR=1

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:rofl: I like the guy, but his obsession with a properly drawn 7 is just too much. He even has to get the tiny little tick at its tip after he draws it. Judging by the size of his fortune he was probably that way 'bout ole.