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My Bone To Pick With T. Boone Pickens

Billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens rocked the automotive and energy industries this week with a bold plan to drastically reduce America's dependence on imported oil. His plan, in case you missed it, is to build massive wind farms to produce electricity, and to stop making electricity from natural gas. Then he wants to divert that natural gas to be used in cars and trucks.

Doing so, Pickens argues, would allow the U.S. to reduce its use of imported oil by 30 percent. Natural gas proponents point out that it burns far cleaner than gasoline, that we have abundant domestic reserves, and that depending on where you live, it sells at the equivalent of $1.50 for a gallon of gasoline.

Mr. Pickens may know a lot about the oil and gas industry. But getting people to buy cars that can run on natural gas may not be as easy as he thinks.Continue reading Autoline on Autoblog with John McElroy

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