T Boone Pickens is an incredibly smart man that is standing up and showing us all the numbers we’re creating when it comes to oil prices. 88 million barrels of oil is demanded each day globally. The oil is coming out at 85 million barrels a day. Obviously supply in demand shows that we’ve hit the peak of our oil production and cannot move back to having more oil than we need. We’re getting the majority of our oil from Canada but we need to stop sending 700 billion a year to foreign countries to pay for our fuel. T Boone Pickens proposes that we remove natural gas from our non-transportation energy sources and replace that 22 percent with wind and solar. The department of energy has already verified that we can do this. the map shows the middle of the country is the perfect place for wind farms. From the southern part of Texas all the way to the Canadian border we can have wind turbines creating 200k megawatts and completely replacing the natural gas currently providing that energy. In addition to that. The southwest region of our country can be covered in hybrid situations of wind and solar which would actually create more energy than we have now. What this does is fills the gap where natural gas was previously allowing that natural gas to be used for transportation energy. Increasing mileage standards, using natural gas for transportation energy, and changing our habits as a society would easily remove 400 billion dollars a year from our trade deficit.
The model for this idea is Sweetwater Texas. The town was up to 12k residents at one point when it started drying up. The population dropped to 10k and now with its new wind power project it is back up to 12k. This is a direct example of how keeping money local can help. If this was repeated all over Texas and all the way north to Canada, we would have a huge boom in the economy (especially locally to those regions). Now all we need to do is get our government to listen, cooperate, and act!
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