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ILL WIND BLOWS GREEN

The economic tsunami rolling over the world is of tectonic proportions. In the United States it is the perfect storm of collapses that will cause a paradigm shift and bring about a new order in our national makeup. Adding to the preceding clichés, is the maxim, ”There is no ill wind that does not blow some good.” The stimulus package will allow us to begin the weaning process that ultimately will free us from foreign petrol dependence.

T. Boone Pickens has been a Pied Piper in spreading the word on how the use of natural gas in transportation trucks and government and other fleet vehicles would be a good starter toward reducing the importation of foreign oil. He attributes the current wide availability of natural gas to a new discovery on how to capture it. Although Mr. Pickens career has not been driven necessarily by altruism, it would appear that his wealth and age would give him the benefit of any doubt as to whether he has the nation’s good in mind. His suggested strategic initiatives include the construction of wind-energy generators along the wind corridor from Texas to the Canadian border, as well as other wind-rich areas; and the utilization of the Sun Belt from Texas to California for solar energy construction.

Of course, to tie all of this in, a vast electrical grid will be necessary from border to border and sea to sea. Pickens is pushing this also, and amazingly, in a rapidly developing whirl wind, Washington currently is tackling this very important facet of the need to green. Fortunately, the funds to proceed in this area sans political bickering are contained within the stimulus package. Were it not for the current economic crisis, these very necessary measures, as well as others to follow, would be naught but exotic bubbles bouncing about in a political grab bag.

But for this ill wind, the blowing of the green wind and the solar wind considerably would be more remote.