The nuts and bolts of it are that he wants to see us quit relying on natural gas to fuel 22% of our electric energy. At least that's what I understood him to say. I didn't know that they used gas to create electricity, so maybe he meant household energy in general (gas-fired furnaces, hot water heaters, clothes dryers, etc.).

Anyway.... of the 22% that is fueled by natural gas, he believes it can all be replaced with wind power by a massive windmill system that runs through the plains states. That natural gas would then be used to fuel automobiles. He said it is used to create a clean-burning and plentiful supply of gasoline and that currently 8M cars in the world run on natural gas fuel.

He said we would be able to accomplish this within ten years and it would reduce our dependence on foreign oil by $300B. We currently import $700B/year.

He didn't propose that this is a 'forever solution' and maintains that in 30 years when he is dead that the next generation will be looking for something else, but that it would be a good bridge to get us to the next phase of energy use. His primary concern is the dependence on the foreign source, not necessarily the environment or anything.

I don't know if this credits or discredits him, but I have to assume that he is as much a gas man as an oil man.