T. Boone Pickens’ energy plan

No surprise The Star’s editorial board sides with the liberal no-drill crowd (8/1, Opinion, “Pickens’ energy plan is simple, sensible”). It’s funny how liberals describe the world’s consumption of oil as an addiction — let’s conserve ourselves to a strong economy and prosperity.

I am fine with alternative energy sources, but until I see the editorial board members with windmills or whatever to move their cars, we need oil. Not foreign oil — U.S. oil.

If you liberals think that a 5.5 percent unemployment rate is so tragic, then continue with this no-drill nonsense and gas prices will be at $8 a gallon. At that level, the economy will really slip into a recession. Or worse, unemployment will soar and you will be home because you lost your job.

Now that’s conservation!

Tim Bower
Overland Park

Comments

[NoMoreMrNiceGuy]

400 billion bareels in MT and the Dakotas. Hyperion is planning on building the first refinery in decades but guess what......liberals stepped in and have made it difficult to get going. 400B barrels, think about that for a minute. Domestically controlled. Mr. Pickens said that Obama's is wrong on the tax mongering. he also said that drilling and utilizing all of our own resources should have been done years ago. We have billions in wind farm projects alone slated through 2012.
Of course when you do the math on their efficiency, we will at best augment 20-25% with wind and that is it. Solar at this point is too expensive but will become more reasonable, again, not as sustainable as coal. Using natural gas will increase natural gas prices. You anti-oil bunch need to step up, stop buying make up, plastic, tires, lubricants, no more oil changes every 5000 miles either.

[Engineer]

JayhawkinMO
T. Boone also said we should drill all we can where ever we can. He suggests making use of all available forms of energy and developing alternative sources. His main solution for transportation requirements is to use condensed natural gas. This can be done but it might well also give rise to some drilling.

[YourBSSucks]

Roach - "Boving scatologists like you are the reason the American enconomy has almost been crippled. I hope to hell you are happy now."

REALLY!!!!! The intelligent folks who track our economy all tell us that it's because of Bush's failed policies and lack of a plan to keep things going. But then, Roach, you are nothing but that same old stupid lemming who jumps off of every cliff that Dumbya tells you to.

[Sammy]

Is the argument that 85 billion barrels of oil is less than 250 billion barrels, therefore not worth going after? That's like saying we should just scrap about 65% of our GDP for the heck of it.

[Rogue]

Gayhawk you are a nincompoop why don't you go to the DOE site and see the estimates that are available to us offshore and in the Artic. Enough to match the Saudi's in the Artic, and the Russians offshore.

Further supplies could be in our tanks in two to six years according to the two most senior drillers in the Gulf.

This is not even considering the Colorado oil shale fields.

Boving scatologists like you are the reason the American enconomy has almost been crippled. I hope to hell you are happy now.

BTW how do you propose to "conserve" our primary fuel in a growing economy. Wait, don't answer, I know, you think we should just tax ourselves to prosperity!

[JayhawkinMO]

Guys like Bower and Rogue prefer to remain ignorant and repeat the time-worn mantra, "drill, drill, drill." A little Google research shows that proven reserves in the U.S. total about 21 billion barrels and unproven reserves on the continental shelf perhaps 85 billion barrels. Saudi Arabia has 250 billion barrels in proven reserves. Bower simply ignores T. Boone Pickens who states with simple clarity that we can't drill our way out of this mess. My goodness, how can a conservative Texas oilman be siding with liberal tree huggers! How shocking!!! Bower and Rogue don't like simple information and facts. They would rather rant-and-rave about some (unproven) liberal conspiracy to bring down their own country with efforts to conserve and push forward with new technology...

[Rogue]

Amen!