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Samples: Articles - Pickens Plan Boone
Picken's energy plan will replace some of the natural gas used to
create electrical energy with clean, renewable wind energy. The
natural gas being used will then be used in transportation for cars
and trucks. If we do this, it will reduce our use of and dependency
on foreign oil and the $700 billion we are sending out of the
country each year be lowered by $300 billion. We
don't really need Boone Pickens to have this happen. The power
companies have been looking at renewable energy sources for over
fifteen years. They are being squeezed by rising fuel costs and
increasing maintenance expenses on an aging power infrastructure
that has been around since WWII. In a kind of grass roots movement,
many independently owned power companies have teamed up with farmers
and already have wind farms in place and being used. These can be
seen in North Dakota, Montana, Minnesota, Michigan, Indiana, Iowa,
Kansas, New York, and others. Where the wind and the numbers provide
for it, almost every power company has plans to put these in, many
in the next five years. Farmers are welcoming the added income from
leases on their land that they sign to allow the turbines to be
installed. They make as much as ten times the amount that they would
normally make per acre, on a circle forty feet in diameter and they
can farm and graze livestock right up to the base of the towers. GE
already has large wind farms in Northern and Southern California and
has committed to supplying 20% of their power through alternative
means in the near term. The power companies are looking at drastic
reductions in fuel and maintenance costs. In each situation, the
local economy has also seen a big improvement. What
Boone has done for this, whatever his reason for being involved, is
that he has brought it national attention. His radio and TV ads and
media attention have helped turn the adoption of renewable energy
into a national movement. Venture capitalists and other investors
have started to throw cash at renewable technology, not only in the
energy sector, but in transportation as well. New, more powerful,
and longer lasting batteries have been developed in order to make
electric cars a reality. There have also been major investments in
hydrogen usage. Compressed air powered cars are already starting to
be sold in many countries. Energy generation only accounts for 8% of
our oil usage, but the transportation sector uses a whopping 70% of
the ten million barrels of oil that we go through daily. Someone
like Boone is needed to move this plodding industry
along. As
the investment is put into the wind farms, jobs will be created and
industry will be stimulated across the nation. Steel, equipment,
agriculture, telecommunications, construction, and many others will
benefit. The gains will eventually touch all of our
lives. Oil
is an antiquated, dirty, and turmoil creating energy source. It is
long past the time when we should have started to replace it. As
China's transportation infrastructure grows, the competition for oil
supplies will increase the prices drastically.
The
U.S. cannot continue to send
$700 billion out of the country for the next ten years and
survive, as we know it. The largest consumer market in the world
will run out of money or the currency will be so devalued that it
will not be able to buy anything. If this happens, the entire world
will feel drastic effects. The Pickens Plan will buy us time to
complete other technology that we are already working
on. While
Picken's plan may not be perfect, it is the only plan that we can
start working on today and we need to get working on something.
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