Ex-CIA Director Warns on Foreign Oil
R. James Woolsey, former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, published an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal titled, “How to End America’s Addiction to Oil.” In it Mr. Woolsey looks at the failed efforts in the past to wean America from foreign oil (coal gasification, hydrogen fuel cells, etc.). “So far every national Continue Reading
Center for American Progress & Natural Gas
The Center for American Progress (CAP) this week released a major report on how shifting heavy trucks from imported diesel to domestic natural gas would “reduce oil use, invest in American energy sources, increase our energy independence and national security, and slash air pollution.” The report, which is titled, “Developing Natural Gas for Heavy Vehicles” Continue Reading
Pickens Testifies Before Congress
T. Boone Pickens told the House Ways and Means Committee today that the U.S. has five times more natural gas than the Saudi Arabia has oil but cautioned that history would not be kind to America if it overlooked this opportunity, saying the country would be considered the dumbest ever if it doesn’t make the Continue Reading
Boone Pickens Testifies at Ways & Means
Click here to read T. Boone Pickens’ full testimony from today before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Ways and Means. Washington, DC – April 14, 2010 – T. Boone Pickens, energy expert and creator of the Pickens Plan to reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil, testified today before the U.S. House of Representatives Continue Reading
Minnesota Home to Pickens Wind Farm
T. Boone Pickens has found a spot for the 334 GE wind turbines that wouldn’t fit in his garage: 12,000 acres an hour or so south and east of Minneapolis-Saint Paul. Pickens’s Mesa Power Group and General Electric have teamed up to form a joint venture called American Wind Alliance that is financing and supplying Continue Reading
Boone Testifies on Capitol Hill Tomorrow Morning
Tomorrow, T. Boone Pickens will be testifying before the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means. The topic is “Energy Tax Incentives Driving the Green Job Economy” and all 1.6 million members of the Pickens Plan Army will be at the table with him (in spirit)! Boone will address our nation’s dangerous dependence on OPEC Continue Reading
China Pays $4.5B for Canadian Oil Sands Stake
Visit www.pickensplan.com/china to read our special report: “Foreign Oil: China has a plan. We don’t.” The Calgary Herald reports that China will pay ConocoPhillips $4.5 billion for a prime swath of the Canadian oil sands. Writer Deborah Yedlin notes that “the Chinese are continuing with their strategy of snapping up natural resources whatever way they Continue Reading
U.S. v China for World Oil
Visit www.pickensplan.com/china to read our special report: “Foreign Oil: China has a plan. We don’t.” T. Boone Pickens has an op-ed in this morning’s editions of “Politico” a widely-read and highly-regarded newspaper and website in Washington, DC. In his essay, Boone points out that while the United States continues to import two-thirds of our oil Continue Reading
U.S. News & World Report on Nat Gas
U.S. News & World Report magazine has a section in its current issue looking at various fuel sources from coal to fusion. For each fuel they start with a “claim” and then follow it up with “the reality.” In the natural gas segment, the writer bemoans the lack of natural gas fueling stations for automobiles, Continue Reading
Watch on Wednesday
Congress invites Boone back to testify on Wednesday about jobs and H.R. 1835, the NAT GAS Act. Continue Reading