According to the Pew Research Center, the public’s top story last week was the rising price of filling up their gas tank. Not a shocker.
If you haven’t done so, you should take 5 minutes to view the ‘PickensPlan’. Put forward by Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens, he calls for a massive expansion of wind generation in the Central United States and then shifting the country’s natural gas resources from energy to fueling cars.
I spent some time researching (I guess googling a few keywords counts as research now days) what natural gas cars cost — pretty affordable really and into fueling stations there are quite a few around the Sacramento region. But you can also fill up at home with this adapter that allows you to use your existing natural gas line.
I’ll give it to Pickens — he really makes you think that we can reduce our dependency on foreign oil without too much sacrifice by average Americans. Add some nuclear and additional domestic oil (he doesn’t discuss these in his plan) and we are on our way toward solving this problem. I’m sure an astute FlashReport reader will point out some difficulties, but my hat is off to Pickens for offering solutions.