EnviroHumanImpact

T. Boone Pickens, formerly an oilman, if you can formerly be one, is pushing forward with his plan to move most of the U.S. natural gas currently used for electricity over to the transportation sector, using it instead for cars.

It is a cleaner fuel, he says, plus, he says the fuel that is taken from electricity production (the natural gas) can be replaced with wind farms.  Pickens also notes that the U.S. has a great deal of natural gas, and even Al Gore has said (at least in his recent Meet the Press appearance) that he likes Picken’s plan and that the natural gas would be a good fuel for the intermediary between carbon-spewing gasoline burners and sustainable, all electric or hybrid vehicles.

On his site, Pickens lines out in about a 5-minute video (the text can be viewed here) that is one of the best short videos I have seen a while.  It succinctly tells, in layman’s terms, the problem he’s trying to work toward a solution on, and what the steps in his plan entail.

Matthew Phillip sent me a link to the Honda Civic GX you can buy that runs on natural gas.  Just make sure you have access to natural gas filling stations before you buy!

And how do you do that?  Check out this handy tool for seeing if you have accessible compressed natural gas fueling stations nearby.  Just enter in your location for a map of fueling stations in your area.

I like Pickens plan because on the economical and the environmental levels, it’s much better than what we’re currently doing and is a big step in the right direction.

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