Watch Boone Pickens Plan

If you haven’t heard billionaire T Boone Pickens has taken out advertisements to promote a plan for energy independence. Here are some videos of Pickens:

Here’s a video of the Pickens plan:

Here’s a longer version of the plan:

Here’s Pickens on CNBC:

Billionaire Pickens High Gas Price Solution

clipped from www.reuters.com Tue Jul 8, 2008 3:16pm EDT By Timothy Gardner NEW YORK, July 8 (Reuters) - Texas energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens on Tuesday called for a massive switch to natural gas as a transportation fuel and a boost in wind power in a plan aimed at reducing U.S. foreign oil dependence by a more than a third. The Pickens Plan, which includes exploiting domestic natural gas supplies in new areas like East Texas and Appalachia, could replace 38 percent of U.S. oil imports, he said. “U.S. natural gas can replace foreign oil. It’s the only natural resource we have that can do that,” Pickens said during a press event for his energy plan. The 10-year plan would reduce the annual U.S. oil import bill of $700 billion, at oil prices of $140 a barrel, by hundreds of billions of dollars, he said. The country imports about 70 percent of its crude. Click here for the whole story

Gasline News Tracker service announced

A news service on all aspects of high gas prices launched today. Pump-less-gas.com, the blog devoted to news, information, resources, and money saving tips now provides a news service called News Tracker. Editor Frank Girard explained “what we are doing is providing constantly updated, highly focused news on all aspects of high gas prices. Currently our coverage includes the topic of “high gas prices” and “fuel efficient cars” with other topics being added every week. The service provides a list of headlines and related story summaries from more than 4500 media outlets from all over the United States on these two topics with more planned,” Girard explained. “To read the headlines stories/news summaries listed, one simply clicks on the headlines/summaries to instantly get the whole story. Now instead of having to search for news on highly focused topics related to all aspects of high gas prices, this information is constantly updated and instantly available from our blog Pump-less-gas.com/wordpress,”Girard continued.

The News Tracker service described can be found at this address: http://pump-less-gas.com/wordpress/news-tracker/

International gas prices

Ever wondered if other countries are suffering as much as the U.S. is with high gasoline prices? Although I had heard that many countries have had higher prices for a long time, I never saw any numbers..until now. Here’s some interesting data about gas prices over time for several key countries-Click here:

Come back anytime to get the latest international gas price trend information for key countries.

Here’s some related stories:

International Rising Gas Prices is in the Works: What Will Prices …

NEW YORK: Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon just accepted the choice by Saudi Arabias King Abdullah to set up a meeting of the worlds top oil producers.

International buyers will keep gas prices high: CIBC chief economist

In a world where gasoline prices obeyed the economic maxim that falling demand leads to lower prices, Canadians shouldn’t have to worry that fuel will soon hit $2.25 a litre.

Five Vulnerable Nodes in the Global Energy Network

Four-dollar gas has the pushed the price of energy to the top of the American mind, but what if the pain at the pump is just a leading indicator of a much more dire energy future? That’s the question that a New Scientist article (behind …

Understanding China’s oil prices

SS: Quote, Profile) lobby the NDRC to raise gasoline prices, they focus on the profits and viability of their refining arm, which PetroChina’s 2007 Annual Report described as incurring heaving losses leading to the cessation of …

Gas demand down

Demand for gasoline is down–In large part because gasoline prices are over $4 a gallon. This drop in demand is the first time in 17 years. China is raising prices for gasoline and diesel — a move that might ultimately lower demand. And, on Sunday, there were signs supply might increase as Saudi Arabia’s oil minister indicated that the country would increase production through the end of the year if needed. On Friday, the energy markets were digesting news of an attack on a Royal Dutch Shell oil platform in Nigeria that shut down over 200,000 barrels of oil per day in production. According to the EIA, in the first quarter of the year, demand for gasoline fell about 100,000 barrels per day, or about 1.3 percent of daily consumption.

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The Plan for $1 a Gallon Gas - Increase Supply and Decrease Demand. Ever economist across the globe will tell you that simple plan WILL bring down the price of oil. The fact is, there are only a few ways to increase supply and lots of ways to decrease demand (all of …

Election year gas prices - Gas prices have gone up a full dollar a gallon just since the primary season began back in January, and of course, the excuse is supply and demand, but as gas prices have continued their meteoric rise, people are driving less and less …

A little riff on “Supply and Demand” - Maybe it’s the gas prices. Maybe it’s corn or rice. You could raise prices to stay afloat…justifying the supply. Or you could find a way to reduce the demand, offering an alternative instead. That way you’re passing the savings onto …

Oil falls as crude supply holds, gas demand drops - NEW YORK (AP) - Oil prices slid Wednesday after the Energy Department said crude oil supplies fell less than expected last week while demand for gasoline dropped nearly 2 percent. The national average for a gallon of regular…

Oil falls as crude supply holds, gas demand drops (AP) - Forum: Commodities and futures - news and analysis (RSS feeds) Posted By: Yahoo! Finance Post Time: 06-18-2008 at 12:20 PM.

FAQ Honda’s FCX Clarity

Here are frequently asked questions about Honda’s new FCX Clarity car, an emission free car just now being offered this summer:

This information came from Honda’s Clarity FCX web site. Pump-less.gac.com in no way guarantees the accuracy and completeness of information provided by the manufacturer. Consumers should use the same due diligence they would use in making any automobile purchase in considering the Honda Clarity FCX.

For more information about the Honda FCX, go to this related link.

Oil prices and speculation \

How much of the price of oil is the impact of speculation (traders betting on the price of oil rising or falling) as opposed to the true real demand? And how exactly are oil prices determined? This has been a recent subject of conversation when the topic is financial trends and energy. I haven’t studied this in detail so can’t say but want to share with you one perspective in a summary of one article provided below:

Article Summary

The price of crude oil today is not made according to any traditional relation of supply to demand. Nymex in New York and the ICE Futures in London today control global benchmark oil prices which in turn set most of the freely traded oil cargo. A third rather new oil exchange, the Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME), trading Dubai crude, is more or less a daughter of Nymex, with Nymex President, James Newsome, sitting on the board of DME and most key personnel British or American citizens. Brent is used in spot and long-term contracts to value as much of crude oil produced in global oil markets each day. But how today’s oil prices are really determined is done by a process so opaque only a handful of major oil trading banks such as Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley have any idea who is buying and who selling oil futures or derivative contracts that set physical oil prices in this strange new world of “paper oil.”

The trading of energy commodities by large firms on OTC electronic exchanges was exempted from CFTC oversight by a provision inserted at the behest of Enron and other large energy traders into the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 in the waning hours of the 106th Congress.

Get the full article here:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8878

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Technorati Profile

Energy Manhattan project?

Why aren’t we treating the high priced gas crisis like we treated the need to develop the A bomb during World War II? The Manhattan project was an all out effort by the government and private industry to develop the atomic bomb…we did it in record time and the course of history was changed forever!

We put a man on the moon because Kennedy inspired us and dedicated talented folks made it happen even though some people laughed and said it couldn’t happen…Why the hell don’t we have a Manhattan like project going on at this very moment but for alternative energy? The lack of an effort like this makes me mad as hell!…Mad for the sake of the security of this country…mad about what these high prices are doing to our economy and the people on tight budgets who are struggling now because of these prices.

Before we decide on who will be President, we should demand that the candidate we choose commit to an alternative energy Manhattan project…and not just rhetoric but a comprehensive detailed plan for how to make it happen!

Here’s a thought- a group of bright…no… brilliant minds from multiple disciplines from private industry should develop a written position piece and proposed plan for the Manhattan project starting right now.

Some say we should begin drilling in more places now to give oil prices some relief…If this is our only alternative, perhaps we should…but only as an interim measure. We need a longer term comprehensive Manhattan type project that is more environmentally friendly but with limited impact on our free enterprise system.

Why don’t we have the Oil Manhattan Project? Is it too controversial for our politicians? Are lobbying groups blocking this? Has no leader in business or government suggested this idea? Is the public not smart enough to demand that a project like this begin now? What do you think???

Pay by the half gallon!!

Today, I had an unusual experience at the pump. I gave the attendant $10 and he came back to me later and said thank you, we’re done. I looked at the pumping station guage and it said $5. I said to him “You owe me another five dollars.” He shook his head with a smile and pointed to a sign that said “Because these pumps can’t accurately count above $4, the department of weights and measures has temporarily permitted gas to be dispensed and paid for in half gallon increments.”

I thought about it a minute and felt like I was buying a half gallon of milk and not gas! It was bad enough when I gave the attendant ten bucks for gas that I could see how few gallons I got. But now when I hand the guy ten bucks, all that shows on the pump is 5 bucks! What is life at the pump evolving to? <g>

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Anti gas theft tips

Simple ways to Reduce Gas Theft

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