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Tuesday, 29 July 2008 |
Trucks will be using the gas he will be selling.
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Saturday, 26 July 2008 |
I have examined the "Pickens Plan" and it seems to be a new variation of the old shell game but on a grand scale, from Shale to shining Shale. At least he got one thing right, we're not gonna drill our way out!
Oilman T. Boone Pickens first wind farm, which when completed sometime around 2016 for about $10 Billion, will be 5 times bigger than the worlds largest to date (735 MW in Abilene, TX) at an ambitious 4000 MW. In his presentation we are told his plan is to replace 22% of U.S. electric power generation , the amount currently done with natural gas (NG), with wind power generation in ten years, freeing the NG for transportation use. Is this plan realistic? If not, what is he really up to? It smells like methane (NG) to me!
There is 313,901 MW of NG electricity production in place now ( 216,269 MW NG Combined Cycle + 97,632 MW NG Boiler). Pickens record shattering 4000 MW farm is not even close to this, so surely he means when the whole middle of the country has wind installed. OK, 313,901/4000 = 78.47 more wind farms the size of his will be needed in the next ten years. Are there 78 more T. Boone Pickens types lined up and ready to build wind farms? With $7.8 Trillion dollars in funding? This seems unlikely, but maybe, those oil guys have been doing pretty good at the pumps lately.
Let's continue to examine this a bit.
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Monday, 21 July 2008 |
A truckload shipped 825 miles would take an extra 4 hours if the drivers kept their speed at 55 rather than 75 MPH, but the energy cost would be reduced by 30%! At $5 gallon for diesel, the savings are about $240 per truckload!
"Excessive speed is the largest single factor in reduced fuel mileage. A general rule of thumb is that every mph increase above 50 mph reduces fuel mileage by 0.1 mpg."
Kenworth White Paper on Fuel Economy, March 2006.
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Sunday, 20 July 2008 |
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Drive55.org is asking Truckers to help out by documenting your mileage, speed, time and fuel consumption. We are all interested in how this affects your bottom line in the real world as this also impacts overall shipping costs nationwide. Please download a blank Real World Vehicle Efficiency Report form and make a few copies. Use the form to document your actual consumption and fax it in so we can publish the data.
To encourage your participation I am offering free Drive 55 bumper stickers to Trucking professionals that want one. To get yours, please send me your name and mailing address through the contact form on the website.
Thank you for the difficult work you do, and for your support of Freedom from Foreign Oil, Energy Independence, and Liberty to Travel in America!
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Saturday, 19 July 2008 |
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Let's each take a load 825 miles @ $1.30 per mile = $1072.50. We will pay $5 gallon for fuel. You will drive 75 MPH and get 5 MPG ($1 per mile) and I'll go 55 MPH and get 7 MPG (.71 cents per mile).**
You will get there in 11 hours and spend $825 on fuel for a gross profit of $247.50, divided by 11 hours works out to $22.50 per hour. It will take me longer, 15 hours, but I only spend $585.70 on fuel so my gross profit is $486.8 divided by 15 = $32.45 per hour. Granted I will have a ten hour sleep period, but when I wake up and hit the road it will be at $32.45 an hour and you will still be getting $22.50. Correct me if I'm wrong, but with fuel at $5 gallon it looks like you could earn an extra $10 an hour when you Drive 55.
** "Excessive speed is the largest single factor in reduced fuel mileage. A general rule of thumb is that every mph increase above 50 mph reduces fuel mileage by 0.1 mpg."
Kenworth White Paper on Fuel Economy, March 2006. http://www.kenworth.com/FuelEconomyWhitePaper.pdf
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