Open letter to Mr. T. Boone Pickens

Open letter to Mr. T. Boone Pickens

I join you and applaud you for pointing the way to clean, renewable energy for the people of planet Earth.    I thank nature’s God for Earth’s rotation and the resultant prevailing winds that you point out can become a free source of much of that energy.

My friend Russell Zimmer, former President of the Wyoming Senate, alerted me about Denver billionaire Phillip Anschutz’s plan to provide wind energy to Southern California, (See: http://www.denverpost.com/business/ci_10036833).

However, I have a concern about natural gas as an interim fuel.   I am confused.  I was told that the USA is faced with the same strategic situation on natural gas as we are on oil, e.g. we have only 3% of the reserves but consume 25% , and that producing countries are threatening an OPEC type cartel to control natural gas supply and pricing, just as they do on oil.    I learned this from Ms. Anne Korin, co-director of Institute for Analysis of Global Security. (See: http://www.iags.org/sinosaudi.htm).

This seems to me inconsistent with your TV ads and those of cngNow.com, which imply we have plenty of natural gas here.   I believe Ms. Korin sees Flex Fuel cars using either gasoline or alcohol - and easily implemented in the U.S. by a government requirement that all manufacturers include this capability, at about a $100 cost, in their gasoline vehicles.

I respectfully ask for your comment and reaction at your convenience.