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Hi. You may have read one of my postings already titled, "...the Crisis of Controversy." If not, it may be a good idea to read that first to get a little background on this posting. Why do I support Mr. Pickens and his "plan." What are my personal reasons? To give you a little personal background I am a former Senior Executive Business Analyst for an 82 year old company out of Chicago. (No its not the mob.) Also, I have a MBA degree from the worlds largest private University. With that said, I'm pretty much a nobody - regular American man. T. Boone Pickens, however is an entreprenuer of stellar proportions. He's done well for himself and his family and at eighty years old he can state without trepidation that he has lived out the American dream -- which belongs to all of us, including you, if you are an American. That brings me to my main point. Pickens outlines the basis of his plan (motive) to help Americans (that is you and me) get out of the $700 billion exportation of American wealth each year. This is his reason, his point, his underlying intent for his plan and the investment. So, he makes money, he continues living out the "American Dream" as every law abiding citizen has the right in our country and good for him. The question for the Pro-PickensPlan and the Anti-PickensPlan people is this ... What is your motivation? For those currently paying anywhere from .88 cents to $1.82 per gallon of CNG, are you helping the American economy by squeezing a few dollars into your own pocket & trying your best to thwart the PickensPlan? The most common argument I've seen is that your local CNG would go up in price due to the infrastructure required to allow more vehicles to use CNG. If we think that keeping the price of local CNG low for ourselves individually is helping the American economy - think again. This helps the few people who have CNG (converted personally owned vehicles - POVs). It really helps no one else. However, since the common thinking is that new infrastructure is required to support more CNG-POVs lets take a good hard look at what that really means for the overall American economy, rather than a microcosm of the American economic picture. The American economy is comprised of multiple industries in support of the infrastructure of other multiple industries and all are innerlinked. For example, United Parcel Service is dependent on the commerce of goods shipped in order to be in business and provide wages (excellent) to their workers. Without the shipment of goods and the great service that UPS, DHL, FEDEX and other carriers provide whole industries would vanish overnight. What has that got to do with accepting PickensPlan and building wind farms and shifting the usage of CNG to fleet & government owned vehicles (GOVs) and the economy? Who builds these "infrastructures?" The government doesn't have a passle of building contractors on government payroll who travel the country building infrastructure. Our nation's infrastructural components are designed, and built using a combination of government resources and independent contracting firms. The biggest part of the dollar for new infrastructure goes into the pockets of general contracting firms, who then pay their engineers, architects, drafting desigers, sub-contractors (who consist mostly of local labor pools), just to name a few. So, tell me, those who would oppose PickensPlan, are you sincerely against some of your neighbors making a living? Are you against the improvement of our nation's economic condition? Are you against people going to work? Let me ask you this. Are you against a stronger U.S. dollar? Do you realize for those who are not using one of your CNG-POVs that belongs to you personally (which is over 98% of the country right now) they are sending .70 cents for every dollar at the pumps overseas? And because you already got your vehicles converted you're going to get on your high horse and start name calling gentlemen such as T. Boone Pickens? You are going to say "too bad" for the rest of the country who are now 70% dependent on spending their gasoline dollar outside of the United States? You are going to snub your neighbors who are electrical contractors, plumbing contractors, engineers, drafts designers, construction workers and so many other professions out of a job? Just because you're afraid you're going to have to pay $3.00 per gallon for CNG rather than your precious .88 cents? Aren't you just a little too good to be a true blue, dyed in the wool, red-white-blue American? Do you honestly believe that Mr. Pickens is a "high hog" as I continually see on these ridiculous postings? Maybe you should look in the mirror at the selfish way you're behaving when we (Americans) have a champion of the American cause and energy revolution in this country named - T. Boone Pickens. Those who would hang on to their pennies while the rest of Americans are sending $700 billion a year overseas are truly not the underdogs in this scenario. It is the countless millions of people who haven't been able to afford a CNG conversion or who have no means of gassing up at a CNG pump who are the real sufferers. Get your head out of the clouds you hypocrites of the PickensPlan - "Earth to Americans" - what are you thinking? We need Mr. Pickens in this hour of our history. We need champions of our great country who are willing to put their livelihood on the line and help secure a better future for the hard working people of our country. These people who think they have all the answers aside from PickensPlan and are continually poking holes in his amazing plan - what do you have to offer me? Me, personally, what is your plan for me? You don't have a plan that will work for me, for us, for the majority of people who are sending $42 of a $60 tank of gas overseas. You don't have any answers to help our economy "over all." You have some miniscule ideologies without solid ground for the majority. So, try to think outside your box. Try to look at the overall plan and not just the microcosm of your own economic condition. Look past the easement paperwork, land leases, and planning -- let a successful entreprenuer take the wheel, a champion of the American dream as much as Sam Walton, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, and Walt Disney. Start looking at the broader picture and help America get hold of their economy for once. Support Mr. Pickens with the new energy plan he has been unfolding. And rather than throw all of the burden on him - do your part, rather than poke holes (which any armchair quarterback can do) get down on the field and make the important plays happen yourself. By bashing the PickensPlan you are not only hurting Americans, your neighbors, relatives and friends, you're hurting yourself in the long run. If you have to pay $3.00/gal. for CNG then it is all going into the pockets of Americans, strengthening our dollar and our economy and helping our own local neighbors. The infrastructure will come, the CNG vehicles will come and eventually America can and will run on cleaner energy, but we have got to start somewhere and I say we can start by getting behind T. Boone Pickens and help him push this plan of Pickens through to fruition. Get down off your high horse people, roll up your sleeves, get down in the trenches, shoulder to shoulder, nose to the grindstone and work to get this thing pushed through every phase. We've all got a lot of work to do -- it is much easier to work together than spend a lot of energy splitting hairs. "Many hands make light work." So, jump in with a multi-billionaire and do your part to help move our government into a position of recognition for Pickens' Plan. Contact your own state representatives. Get on your mayor's, county commissioner's, senator's and state representative's websites. Email them personal emails and tell them just how badly we need Pickens Plan to be pushed through for our country to move effectively into the new energy revolution. Do not waste another minute. Now is the time to act. Contact your state, federal and local government officials as quickly as you reach the period at the end of this sentence. -Brent Teague writes for the Internet Green Guide at www. internetgreenguide. com

... Why Pickens' Plan makes sense ... The majority of concern is the strength of Pickens' plan and whether he has taken adequate time around a drawing table to consider all of the possible pieces at length that should be a part of his plan. I have one advantage being the publisher of the Internet Green Guide. I can listen to both sides objectively. From where I sit if either side has a weakness it can quickly be brought to the surface, because I'm looking at both sides of the coin, supporters and naysayers alike. I really, really want to konw where the solid ground is on this issue. One friend wrote, "Brent - T. Boones plan does not have any “distributed energy” associated with it so is therefore limited in it’s effectiveness, and timeliness as well as security. These new transmission lines have to be DC ( less loss in transmission) but still vunerable to breakdowns and such. We need more local sources." The question to me now is, "How does Pickens address this situation?" First, Pickens clearly states on his videos that transmission will originate in the midwestern windfarm regions of the U.S. From there he states that energy can be transmitted toward both the east coast and the west coast. The argument (and i hate arguing about anything) seems to be that Pickens doesn't know or understand how wind energy must be transported, because the transmission must be direct current (DC) rather than the alternating current (AC assuming) with natural gas. It is not Pickens who must come up with the answer to your question of DC and local sources. It would be the Pickens engineers. Here is an example. If any of the readers saw the movie about Howard Hughes (the "All American" Icon and Entreprenuer) you understand that it was Mr. Hughes who thought of airplane rivets being flush with the sheet metal. It was then the task of Mr. Hughes' engineers and machine shop mechanics to determine the "hows" of producing a smooth winged aircraft. Mr. Pickens has been generous enough in my humble opinion to give Americans a strong solution to foriegn oil dependence. In light of how much complaining there is about high fuel prices at the service pumps, I am shocked, personally at how few people want to get on board with his plan. The finer details will be worked out as the plan progresses. We seem to have become a spoiled society finding 100 reasons not to do anything, when we only really require one good reason to support a good cause (like 911 for instance). We won't be spoiled much longer if things continue going the way they are going, we will rather be ensnared by this foriegn oil debacle and our nation's one time riches will be a thing of the past for all, including me and I really don't warm up to that idea very well. So, where is a better idea than Americans transferring all of their wealth overseas through oil purchases? I think Pickens' plan warrants a good sturdy listening to ... Others have written in about condensed natural gas (CNG) in Utah and the great progress of Questar energy company and the low price per gallon (ppg .88 cents). People of Utah sit on their haunches and point fingers at Mr. Pickens as though they are somehow God's chosen and Mr. Pickens doesn't have a clue. How is that, for persecution? May the good people of Utah think back about 150 years to their own plight and how they were treated so unkindly by others in Missouri and other places. What right has any "true American" to criticize another? Yet, while the former Secretary of Energy (one of the highest positions in U.S. Federal Government) Governor Richardson of New Mexico, advocated Mr. Pickens' strategy, the governor of Utah declined "at this time." I guess the Governor of Utah is somehow smarter than a billionaire and the former Secretary of Energy. Way to go on the engenderment of divisiveness in America. For some reason Americans just aren't "getting it." Mr. Pickens' plan is as American as baseball, hotdogs and grannies apple pie. Perhaps even more so because he likens the crisis to the predicament of war! Hello? Is anyone out there small enough to realize that T. Boone Pickens is a multi-billionaire and you are not? Neither am I, so lets get off our high horses of judging Mr. Pickens as though we are so much more brillian and get into the trenches and support each other in this crisis -- how do we do that? Listen to Pickens plan, it is so simple a 5th grader can understand it. If readers haven't viewed the Pickens'Plan yet, it can be found by clicking on this link: www. pickensplan. com/ index. php Pickens shares the most readily available and quickest method to replace natural gas use for electric power with wind. People who want to waste time over whether the EPA should change laws to make retrofitting vehicles less costly to the consumer (which can be years, even decades in the legislative processes) should seriously reconsider the facts. It can be summed up in one paragraph: There is the problem, well defined: dependence on foriegn oil. Then Pickens Plan outlines the solution: independence from the foriegn stranglehold. Finally, Pickens lays out "the how" in a very clear and concise way: the plan for shifting electric energy resources from natural gas to wind energy, freeing up the use of natural gas to be utilized in all new government vehicles and trucking company vehicles. For those who would continually bash Mr. Pickens and his miraculous plan for American Independence (similar to independence from the British only without guns) with their own plan of continuing to muddle in the problem, claiming there is a better way "right now" are blind to the greatness of Pickens' strategy - it is a timely strategy and the time to act on supporting his plan is now. You can stay on your high horse if you want, but in the long run you're hurting all of us including yourself. There is no other overall "big picture" strategy that will effectively accomplish within 5 to 10 years what Mr. T. Boone Pickens has outlined for the benefit of everyone. Any strategy that will work better Pickens has stated he will hear. Yet, if you dig in your heals and say "no," just because Mr. Pickens is successful and you are not then you are willingly blind to the overall concept of what he has brought to the table for us all. Dig in your heals, be proud and we all fail including me and including you - thanks a lot! You're a real American - NOT! But wait, there's more! There is the politics and the numbers! Mr. Pickens has emphatically stated that within the first one-hundred days of our new American President being in office a solid plan must be rolled out by the President of the United States for Compressed Natural Gas (CNG). Because the emails received at the Internet Green Guide appear to reveal flaws in Pickens' Plan they will be shared in this article, but right along with reasons that Pickens should continue to advance his plan. Mr. Pickens shares the recent phenomena (crisis created) which goes like this: OIL IMPORTED INTO USA IN 1970 = 24% OF TOTAL USE OIL IMPORTED INTO USA IN 1990 = 42% OF TOTAL USE OIL IMPORTED INTO USA 2008 = Nearly 70% COST = $700,000,000,000.00 This is a lot of zeros. It translates to 700 billion dollars. You and I make up that figure everytime we go to the pump - well actually I don't because I no longer own a car - I bicycle everywhere. United States VERSUS China (personally owned vehicles) USA 750 people out of every 1,000 own a vehicle. CHINA 44 people out of every 1,000 own a vehicle. This represents a disparity of 71%. This trend in ownership is already changing at a rapid pace. The gap in disparity is closing and China's continual demand for foriegn oil, the same sources as the United States is continually increasing. The United States consumer uses 21 million barrels of the total 85 million produced each and every day. This is 25% of the world's consumption of crude oil while only 4% of the earth's population resides within the borders of the United States. This is the immediate problem that Mr. T. Boone Pickens is so intentionally addressing. For some reason many of the people with whom I engage on energy use and fuel seem to completely overlook this specific problem when it comes to the correct solution. There are at least seven major sources of electric energy supply to recognize when considering the "immediate" solution to the problem, coal, natural gas, hydro, bio-fuel, wind, solar, and nuclear. Pickens pick is natural gas because it is cleaner, cheaper and extremely abundant within the geographic boundaries of the United States. His strategy focuses on a shift in the use of United States energy that is dedicated specifically to power generation for homes, businesses and other structural elements of our infrastructure. Currently our infrastructural electric energy sources are distributed using these quantities of our given resources: 50% coal power 22% natural gas power 20% nuclear power 8% other Pickens' shift proposes shifting the use of natural gas to vehicle use. How? The way he proposes to accomplish this task is through wind energy. Wind power can be harvested from the main U.S. wind corridor which runs longitudinally through the midwestern region of the United States. This energy can be transmitted through the power grid to the eastern & western coastal regions of the United States giving power to millions of people to the tune of 22% being wind energy dependent. This new energy source gives immediate access to the natural gas resource to be used for vehicle fuel. Pickens' plan calls for project completion within 10 years, but it could be done much faster with federal backing and major entreprenuerial influx of labor, materials, engineers and transportation. The new numbers once natural gas power is replaced by wind energy look like this: 50% coal power 22% wind power 20% nuclear power 8% other This shift in electric energy resource from natural gas to wind will give Americans a substantial increase of natural gas for use in vehicles. Now, without reducing the current number of vehicles on the road, Americans would be capable of achieving a 38% reduction in imported oil from foriegn entities. There are a ton of unseen variables which could and probably should be addressed at this point, but for the sake of brevity will be overlooked - just know the author understands there is much more going on here than meets the eye. Regardless, Pickens' plan is admirable to say the least and at most a beacon of light that is opening the eyes of many Americans who were, (like me) until Pickens came on the scene, in fact, asleep. This plan can have tremendous impact on the U.S. for good. It can also give the domestic American markets much relief from competing for barrels of oil being shipped from producers to various harbors across the globe for offloading, refining and vehicle consumption. Pickens clearly states the dollar figure back into the pocket of Americans to be $300 billion measured by the value of today's dollar. What really gets under my skin are these shallow-minded simpletons who believe that T. Boone Pickens has come up with this strategy to line his pockets personally. One thing, so what - we live in a capitalist's nation - if you don't like it, leave. Another thing is the man is 80 years old - give me a break! People actually believe that Pickens intends to make himself the world's wealthiest man? Pickens states about his plan that is it not the final step to where we are going - it is a "bridge" to get us to the place that technology will take us and the type of energy and fuel we will be using in the future, which he believes will not come from fossil fuels. Pickens has shared that he probably won't be around in the day when we are completely off fossil fuels. Please don't loose the bigger picture by focusing on the fact that you have 3 retrofitted vehicles and the first one was converted in 1989. To let those facts slow you down or stop you from encouraging the progress of Pickens' plan is to miss the entire point that we are truly in an energy crisis and must start somewhere. The federal government doesn't have anything on the table to create cheaper retrofits such as the $600-$800 prices we hear about in other countries. If it isn't happening "now" then it might happen later - what is happening right "now," this moment in time is Pickens Plan. We can retrofit later, not a problem, we'll get to it if we still need it at the time. We can't wait around for the Federal Government to change the EPA standards - it is the Federal Government that turned their collective heads long enough to allow this horrible deficit to occur without any plan being developed at all. This is another good reason to hold your elected officials accountable for their decisions. What is "their" plan? I'm not an insurgent, rather a law abiding, tax paying citizen, but a citizen nonetheless and if we are to govern as people, "by the people and for the people" then it is up to us - the people to help get a good solid plan like this off the ground. We have the leader, he's given everyone his concept now it is up to us to recognize the quandary America is in and help each other work to get out of it. This is the true blessing of Pickens standing up to share his plan. Another part of the bigger picture Pickens brought up is the fact that GM is currently producing 19 different models of natural gas vehicles being sold in other countries. GM is ready to roll cars into the domestic market, but the national infrastructure doesn't exist to support the type of production required for GM to maintain a strong profit margin in this U.S. market. They are, however, ready and that is the point. There are pieces in place everywhere prepared to support the Pickens' plan, but we will only be able to get the ball rolling if all of us move in a positive and permanent direction. The only clear hope on the American horizon to reverse the trend of foriegn oil dependence is the Pickens' plan. Pick it apart if you wish, but that attitude is a poor one and a basic injustice to yourself and to those of us trying to help our neighbor right here in our own land. To better help you understand, you may want to watch the video about Sweetwater, Texas here: http: / / push. pickensplan. com/ Finally, if you are uncertain about all of this just remember one simple thing. Every time you or I go to a gas pump America keeps only .30 cents of every single dollar we spend right now at the pump. We get .30 cents on the dollar. It is really a wonder our dollar still has the value it does in the international markets, but think about that one real serious for a minute. If we continue to keep only .30 cents and that figure drops even more then the value of our dollar will crumple up and go in the gutter. So, ask yourself, "Is it worth it?" Is T. Boone Pickens simple plan of attack worth the simple cost of giving it the "go ahead" by you? When embraced Pickens' plan will launch a global energy revolution never known to humanity. The very best aspect of it all at this point, to me, is that this energy revolution will be a "GREEN REVOLUTION." This can be likened to the "stone age" or to the "industrial revolution" of bygone eras. Not only will energy be cleaner, but there will be more green products, transportation, food, housing and infrastructure. Mr. Pickens is really handing Americans the driver's seat to this new revolution. If we don't take it, America, someone else will and this wave has barely even begun to swell. The crest of this GREEN WAVE is at least a decade or more away. Do you want to ride the wave or sit on the beach with your arms folded? Think about it. Editor - The Internet Green Guide This article is published on www. internetgreenguide. com and is available for reprint. For more information contact the editor at 406.595.0127

Money is Green like the Environment… When I started the Internet Green Guide project the domain name was barely available. The intent was to capture the core of the environmental movement and provide some semblance of direction for all of it, at least to encapsulate in words, in a single forum the current events of earth friendly initiatives. The goal was and continues to be to provide a snapshot to the basic consumer that makes sense of all the media information on being friendlier, ecologically speaking. Now, a month into the project, it is being discovered that there are so many different environmental initiatives across the globe it is overwhelming to imagine one website & blog combination that could provide an accurate picture of what is happening across the earth regarding saving our environment. Paradoxically, it is so refreshing to feel so overwhelmed about all of it. This article might give readers an idea of just how mind-boggling it all is … First, there was the article three weeks ago about T. Boone Pickens and his financial backing in the energy industry for alternative wind energy to be brought to the forefront. Just his initiative alone (www.pickensplan.com ) is staggering. Then there is the amazingly endless online activity. Websites, blogs, advertisements, articles on major hosting sites, even an all green webhosting provider called www. hostpapa. com. Earlier in the week Yahoo (www.yahoo.com) had an article on the “greenest” University and College campuses across the USA. Harvard scored high on the multiple lists found at www. grist. org, www. sierraclub. org, www. ucmerced. eu, yahoo and others. In fact, Harvard has a major environmental initiative appearing unrivaled by any other school. Harvard University President, Larry Summers, went so far as to claim that the, “Best investment in the University is not the endowment, but the Green Loan Fund,” which he intends to double to $12 million as stated in the campus newspaper (http: / / www. thecrimson. com/ article. aspx? ref=513157). On the more local scene, where I just went to a friend’s birthday party this week and met a man who is regarding his home. He is pulling out and exchanging non-green components of his house with much more earth friendly “grade” items. On top of that, I met another friend at a local coffee bar and there on the counter was a small 42 page publication hot off the press and free for the taking. It was a guide to making a home more environmentally friendly and their website www. makemyhousegreen. com blows away the Internet Green Guide for look and feel, flow and even content. So, how does one encapsulate what is happening out there with regard to the “green movement?” Basically, “one” doesn’t. As with the current day environmental movement itself – it is a growing, dynamic gradual change happening on every continent and developing momentum each day as more people take small steps in their lives to be more conservative with our Earth. One person is not enough to bring green news to the world daily and expound green world events continually as they are happening – it takes an entire team, such as www. thedailygreen. com or www. sierraclub. org. The Sierra Club was one of the front runners of green reporting and information sharing, giving us hard-hitting articles on specie endangerment and the ecological necessity for conservancy of wildlife refuge areas. Thank goodness for these predecessors who were willing to roll up their sleeve and do whatever it takes to make a behavioral impact on humanity for the well-being of all the harmonious living organisms on the planet. Alas, into what form the Internet Green Guide will evolve is anyone’s guess. The work now is done for free, voluntarily. Articles submitted are offered by any willing freelance writer from around the globe. Just yesterday I personally added 79 tag keywords into a local blog site http: / / www. mybloglog. com/ buzz/ community/ Bio-Control/ to assist them with traffic because of their excellent work in major organic crop growth and natural commercial weed control. Truly, there is no end in sight. The small green wave of change is only just beginning to swell on the horizon. It will eventually turn to a tsunami and everyone will be engulfed. Sadly, only those sitting idly on the cultural fringes will refuse to grow with the rest of us as we embrace the green challenge before us. The challenge of new light bulbs for the whole house, lowered energy consumption through non-grid home additions, water conservancy through re-engineered raid run-off and greater fuel efficiency (leading to eventual elimination) of combustible resources. One small, methodical, step at a time, a little each day, day-by-day will lead to a leaner, cleaner environment for people everywhere and most importantly for our posterity and many, many future generations. Editor – Internet Green Guide.com © 2008 Internet Green Guide.com all rights reserved.

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