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Natural gas or electricity for vehicles? Pickens Plan

ILLUSTRATION - Central natural gas Currant Creek, Utah photo, David Jolley, 2007, Wikipedia, Creative Commons

Since 2008 T. Boone Pickens , a multibillion dollar oil and gas natural fact about him with his plan, the Plan Pi CKEN to reduce oil imports of U.S. using natural gas da ns vehicles engine specially adapted, as Honda Civic GX . These cars emit about 20% less CO 2 that a car similar to gasoline. For cons, the autonomy of cars using compressed natural gas is only 300 km on one tank.

Pickens Plan is simple, it is to close the majority of natural gas plants in the United States within 10 years and use the gas became available to run internal combustion engines for road vehicles. In his plan, natural gas plants are replaced by wind turbines, that can provide up to 20% of electricity in the United States, according to experts, while natural gas power plants currently provide 22% . The Pickens Plan could save up to 38% of oil imports from the United States, according to its author .

At first glance it seems interesting, because we do not consume more natural gas, it reduces oil consumption and increases renewable energy, while making the economy work Americans, and strengthening energy security U.S.! Now that's smart lobby!

Now that you know the opinion of a magna oil and natural gas, Pickens Plan , here is the opinion of an independent man with modest standard of living, which delved into the issue of oil depth in road transport and solutions alternatives. This is the "Plan Langlois " you have to hand in my last book Driving without oil , Éditions MultiMondes (November 2008).

First, course I have nothing against building wind turbines. By cons, it is much better to consume natural gas in power stations in road vehicles . Indeed, preserving the natural gas plants, we will end up with 20% more electricity generated by wind turbines. But in "Driving without oil" I demonstrate that 'with 20% more electricity in the United States is sufficient to cover 70% of miles, on average, to potential electric or hybrid vehicles pluggable .

could be decreased twice as much oil imports U.S. with hybrid electric pluggable or electric, instead of using natural gas vehicles as recommended by Mr. Pickens ! Besides to distribute natural gas vehicles must still implement a new distribution infrastructure of compressed or liquefied gas, while electricity grids and gas stations today are already in place for hybrid electric pluggable.

The moral of this story is that it must always look beyond appearances and be vigilant with lobbies for oil and natural gas.