Pickens Plan Media Coverage 7.29.09
Upstate College Student Named State Director of Pickens Plan for Alternative and Domestic Energy – Greenville News – 7/28/09 Dallas Firm Fueling Change To Natural Gas In Corporate Fleets – Dallas Morning News – 7/29/09 Energy Independence: The Progress, The Problems… And A Way To Profit – Smart Profits Report – 7/28/09 Pickens Plan in Continue Reading
Fact of the Day – July 29, 2009
U.S. wind power capacity additions increased by 60 percent in 2008, representing a $16 billion investment in new wind projects. Continue Reading
Dallas Firm Leads in Gasoline/Diesel-to-Natural Gas Conversions
A Dallas firm, BAF Technologies, has emerged as a leader in helping cities, ports and corporations make the move from vehicles running on imported gasoline and diesel to those running on domestic natural gas. That is a central tenet of the Pickens Plan. An article in the Dallas Morning News by John Colman states, The Continue Reading
Read ‘em and weep!
We bought 354 million barrels of foreign oil for almost 25 billion dollars. That’s a lot of money sent to foreign markets where it doesn’t do us any good. But there’s no use crying … instead, get up and help us turn these numbers around and get America off foreign oil. Continue Reading
Fact of the Day – July 28, 2009
Because a lot of those governments are in trouble because they assumed that prices would stay high, that they were going to collect so- called rents forever. And they find, as in the case of Iran or Nigeria or Venezuela or even the Saudis, that they can do a lot better if oil is at Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 7.28.09
OUR OPINION: Pickens Cooking with Natural Gas – San Angelo Standard Times – 7/27/09 The Pickens Plan – Kansas City Star – 7/27/09 Continue Reading
Fact of the Day – July 27, 2009
German-owned Nordex USA, Inc., one of the world’s leading manufacturers of wind turbines, has just announced that it will build a manufacturing plant in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The plant is expected to begin producing turbines in 2010 and create approximately 600 jobs. With a typical wind turbine requiring about 8,000 components, that could mean a ripple Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 7.25.09-7.27.09
American People Win 393-35 – Huffington Post – 7/24/09 Renewable Energy the Way Forward – The Community News (DE) – 7/20/09 The Answer to High Gas Prices? – Houston Chronicle – 7/24/09 Finding New Energy Sources Vital – Stillwater NewsPress – 7/25/09 Until There’s a Crisis, Change is Unlikely – Miami Herald – 7/27/09 Rig Continue Reading
Fact of the Day – July 24, 2009
Wind accounted for 40% of the nation’s new energy generating capacity in 2008. Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 7.24.09
Over a Barrel: The Truth About Oil – ABC News – 7/24/09 An American-Made Alternative Energy Source – NAPS – 7/24/09 Natural Gas Bill Up for Consideration – Farm Futures – 7/24/09 Pickens will Present Hargis for Hall of Fame – Stillwater NewsPress – 7/23/09 Natural Gas Cars to get the Green Light – Ecofactory Continue Reading