Did you ever hear the aphorism "Best is the enemy of better" ? Congress is starving America of energy and cash.Our economy is in meltdown.So what's wrong with someone shooting for the stars?
 Sure,there are other ideas to think of.None of them will come from our slothful congress and addle- brained President.Yes-Mt. St. Helen's should be used to power the state of Washington.Yes-Hawaii should be powered by ocean wave energy,wind,and sun.Yes-The Southwest should be solar powered as should Florida.Yes-the interstate highway system should be electrified and powered by breeder reactors.The nuclear waste can be used to sterilize jalopeno peppers and beef. yes we should make carnival cruise lines power its ships with nuclear energy.Yes Yes Yes.
But neither The Congress nor President Putz are going to do it!Someone's got to try.Hip Hip Hooray for T. Boone Pickens!

When Darbee mentioned that, he lost all credibility. Augment Pickens plan with PHEVs and lots of nuclear power plants.

The Pickens Plan certainly bodes well for wind energy. The natural gas idea is awful. Keep the natural gas where it belongs…at the generating plants for electricity where it is most effective. The infrastructure for electric vehicles is already in place. What we need is the auto industry to get off its butt and start making more electric vehicles. GM never should have killed the EV-1 project. Think where we could be had that continued as it should have.

The American public has been very stupid in the way it has responded to energy policy. The American government has been stupid as well. That being said the best thing that could have happened to the American public is high gas prices. It certainly has lit a fire even under the most complacent of people and hit them in the only place that apparently counts….the pocketbook.

Let’s stop with the naysaying and start getting on board for some/any project that lead us in the direction of foreign and domestic oil dependancy as an engery source.

It is my recommendation that every individual that are in postions to direct and contol our path to renewable be prepared to offer a choce before discouraging others with negativity about a position for renewable energy. The one thing I am sure that Mr. Boone is right about; for over 30 years we have known that this crisis will happen if we didn’t change things. The one thing there was little thought to was dissolution of the ice packs.

Yet still, no one in a postion to do anything about changing our course over the last 30 years and our destiny as a result of that change.

Sincerely,
Michael Surles