{"id":1113,"date":"2010-05-11T10:16:59","date_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/?p=1113"},"modified":"2010-05-11T10:22:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-11T15:22:54","slug":"pickens-plan-gale-winds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/05\/11\/pickens-plan-gale-winds\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickens Plan &#038; Gale Winds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[singlepic id=172 w=420 h=315 float=right]I just got off a telecom meeting with the regional Pickens Plan leader Mike.\u00a0 We had a very good meeting today.\u00a0 with this in mind I shall segue off to the gale force winds that are tossing our little sailboat around with impunity.<\/p>\n<p>The winds and rain started very early this morning.\u00a0 The boat was rocking sufficiently to toss me out of the bunk onto the cabin sole &#8211; with a little help from the slippery sleeping bag.\u00a0 As I write, the wind and rain, continue unabated and the barometer is continuing to fall.\u00a0 The weather radar shows a large area of ugly red, yellow and green covering our Michigan area.\u00a0 The east winds have our docklines stretched so far that it is hazardous to jump the 5&#8242; gap to the dock so we are trapped on the boat just like on a mooring.<\/p>\n<p>Back to the Pickens Plan.\u00a0 The map above shows all the natural gas we are blessed with in the USA.\u00a0 This has the potential to make the USA energy independent.\u00a0 The know reserves will supply all our energy needs for the next 100 years if only we exploit the resources.\u00a0 It boils down to the question &#8211; Do we want to remain the supreme super power or do we voluntarily become a second rate power?\u00a0 It is all $ and \u00a2 &#8211; we are slowly going bankrupt &#8211; so we can either curb spending or let inflation take its toll.\u00a0 If we do either we become a has been in the race.\u00a0 We need to exploit the NG to pay our debts and avoid the above two options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[singlepic id=172 w=420 h=315 float=right]I just got off a telecom meeting with the regional Pickens Plan leader Mike.\u00a0 We had a very good meeting today.\u00a0 with this in mind I shall segue off to the gale force winds that are tossing our little sailboat around with impunity. The winds and rain started very early this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1113"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1115,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1113\/revisions\/1115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charleswmoore.org\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}