Pickens Plan Media Coverage 10.16.09
Time for a Different Fuel – The Baltimore Sun – 10/16/09 The Pickens Plan focuses on wind, natural gas as energy sources – Florida Times-Union – 10/16/09 Rich Pickens: Betting on Copenhagen – Business Spectator – 10/16/09 Pickens Warns Americans Not to Be Distracted By Falling Oil Prices – KC Tribune – 10/15/09 ‘Pickens Plan’ Continue Reading
City of Los Angeles Greenlights Natural Gas Fueling Station
More and more municipalities continue to recognize the many benefits of switching from imported diesel fuel to cleaner burning domestic natural gas. Earlier this week, Dallas Area Rapid Transit voted to authorize the purchase of 600 CNG-powered buses. Yesterday, the City of Los Angeles awarded a 10-year contract to design, build, and operate a new public access Continue Reading
Boone Pickens & Sen. Orrin Hatch Publish Joint Op-Ed
U.S. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and T. Boone Pickens have published an essay in the Salt Lake Tribune which calls for a national program to make natural gas a major transportation fuel in America through the adoption of the NAT GAS Act which is currently working its way through Congress. Senator Hatch was an original Continue Reading
Look for Boone Near You!
From Norfolk to New York Boone is talking to CNBC, college students and cable pundits to push the Pickens Plan gospel. Now it is your turn. Click on Pickensplan.com/action! Continue Reading
Town Hall meeting with T. Boone Pickens at University of Maryland TOMORROW 10/16/09
Boone will be appearing at the University of Maryland for a Town Hall meeting tomorrow, Friday, October 16 at 10:30 a.m. EST. He will be giving an update on the Pickens Plan and taking questions from the audience. Click here to RSVP Following are the event details: Friday, October 16, 2009 10:30 a.m. EST University Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 10.15.09
Natural Gas Vehicles Would Cut Oil Imports – The Salt Lake Tribune – 10/14/09 ‘Pickens Plan’ Town Hall Set Oct. 29 in Stillwater – Tulsa World – 10/15/09 Pickens Plans Town Hall Meet at OSU – Stillwater NewsPress – 10/14/09 Pickens Plans Town Hall Meeting on Energy Future – The Enid News and Eagle – Continue Reading
David Johnson's CEO Spotlight interview with T. Boone Pickens
Click here to listen to David Johnson’s CEO Spotlight interview with T. Boone Pickens, a discussion about Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s proposal to buy nearly 600 buses powered by compressed natural gas, saving about $190 million over 20 years. Continue Reading
Sen. Coburn Signs Pickens Plan Pledge
U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla) has become the latest Member of Congress to sign the Pickens Pledge for Energy Independence. Sen. Coburn who is a physician and a former member of the U.S. House, is on record as supporting legislation which would allow the “construction of much needed transmission capacity, including major natural gas ports Continue Reading
Dallas Ditches Diesel Buses
North Texans in 13 cities, including Dallas, will soon be commuting on buses powered by domestic natural gas. Yesterday's policy decision by Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) will change public transit for 220,000 daily passengers in a 700-square-mile service area. Continue Reading