Jed: If those heavier trucks are indeed going hybrid fuel-electric that would
indeed be
excellent.
What I'm thinking though is that 30% less-consumption upgrade is the simple
addition
of 'California' type modifications that Detroit mostly has not bothered to
apply to
larger heavy-hauling trucks here-to-fore.
I know that Picken's simple upgrade solution for the immediate stage of
converting
ALL HEAVY TRUCKS immediately to a tried & true established NATURAL GAS
CARBURATION
SYSTEM in ONE STROKE goes quite a bit beyond even the 30% less-consumption that
has been claimed. I've driven this system on a day to day basis via an
established
regional NATURAL GAS-STATION grid and it worked as quick, & easy, & safe as
the current standard commercial gasoline pumping service-station system that we
are familiar with.
MY OAKIE GRANDFATHER was one of the first engineers to BUILD THAT INITIAL GRID
gasoline SERVICE-STATIONS for SINCLAIR/ATLANTIC RICHFIELD and his field office
was in EL PASO, TEXAS. He would have told us that it would BE A BREEZE to
upgrade the current Service-Station system to NATURAL-GAS virtually overnight!
IN ONE SHORT INFRASTRUCTURE STROKE we would be ENERGY INDEPENDENT though
that would be 'not quite green' it would BE A BOLD FIRST STEP in that
direction.
And that is pretty much what the Pickens Agenda forwards. These old guys
that MANAGED TO GET THE GAS out've MOTHER EARTH are a PRETTY TOUGH
& PRAGMATIC LOT. And that these old guys REALLY HAVE THE VISION to develope
a GREEN GRID FOR REAL where the RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD is a GOOD THING methinks!
AND EVEN BETTER PER PICKENS if those trucks went NATURAL-GAS/ELECTRIC true
hybrids then that '30%' would more likely be DOUBLED and the SHEIKS would not
have
their HOOKS in our collective arses.
But I'm CURIOUS AS YOU to get a 'peek' under the hood; in that I'M FROM
MISSOURI!
BEST WISHES!~;-) Jake
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