Stop falling for corporate marketing.
Your argument below about trucks is ludicrous. Because they're a smaller number of engines to convert and they burn a larger amount of foreign oil per vehicle, they are the "low-hanging fruit" of energy independence and Exxon, Koch, BP, Texaco and Shell should absolutely bear 100% of the cost for this national security measure. Pickens is quirky, but he's right about this.
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Nearly 33% of every barrel of oil we import is used by 18-wheelers moving goods around and across the country by burning imported diesel. An over-the-road truck cannot be moved using current battery technology. Fleet vehicles like buses, taxis, express delivery trucks, and municipal and utility vehicles (any vehicle which returns to the "barn" each night where refueling is a simple matter) should be replaced by vehicles running on clean, cheap, domestic natural gas rather than imported gasoline or diesel fuel.
A plan that brings it all together.
Natural gas is not a permanent or complete solution to imported oil. It is a bridge fuel to slash our oil dependence while buying us time to develop new technologies that will ultimately replace fossil transportation fuels. Natural gas is the critical puzzle piece that will help us to keep more of the $350 to $450 billion we spend on imported oil every year at home, where it can power our economy and pay for our investments in wind energy, a smart grid and energy efficiency.
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