naplesnews.com - 11/4/2009
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NAPLES T. Boone Pickens has put his energy – and a stack of his own money – behind a plan he says will help ween Americans off foreign oil. He calls it the Pickens Plan and it finally appears to be gaining steam. He discussed the plan Tuesday at the Global Financial Leadership Conference, held ...
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T. Boone Pickens: Weening U.S. off foreign oil a security issue
Peak Oil News —
... that hate us, he said. His solution? To start, hes pushing to get the countrys 18-wheelers to switch from diesel to natural gas. There are 6.5 million of the trucks in the U.S. and if they all make the change within seven years that could cut the countrys dependence on foreign oil from OPEC the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries in half. If President Obama gets behind the plan he would be the first president to reduce foreign imports of oil, Pickens said. AP
Drumbeat: November 4, 2009
The Oil Drum —
... are regarded as being beyond the pale.
A geologist by profession, Dr Stanton has made a massive study of global population growth since the start of the industrial revolution, and suggests persuasively that the growth can be accounted for precisely by the advent of cheap oil. He contends that global oil production is at peak now, however, and that diminishing supplies will require the population of Britain to fall from around 60m today to just 2m in 2150.
T. Boone Pickens: Weening U.S. off foreign oil a security issue
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