T. Boone Pickens appearance on Opening Bell
Watch T. Boone Pickens’ appearance this morning on Opening Bell with Maria Bartiromo. Boone weighs in on the shale revolution and how to play the energy market. Watch the latest video at video.foxbusiness.com Continue Reading
U.S. Leads the World in Natural Gas Production
America continues to make strides toward energy independence, and we’ve got the facts to prove. In 2013, domestic natural gas production reached a new all-time high of 328 billion cubic feet per day (BCPD), vaulting the U.S. ahead of Russia and Qatar to the top spot globally. Since 2009, U.S. natural gas production has grown Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Website a Hub for State-based Activity
PickensPlan.com – the website dedicated to T. Boone Pickens’ plan to get the United States off OPEC oil – has added a major dimension by including state-based data and reports on activities in the states. After years of focusing on the Congress and Administration in Washington, Mr. Pickens was one of the first leading thinkers Continue Reading
JOBS1st Summit in Pittsburgh
Want to see energy leadership? Then meet me at Governor Tom Corbett’s JOBS1st Summit in Pittsburgh. Tune in for the live webcast, August 25-26. Pennsylvania isn’t waiting on Washington. Like many other states, it is using its abundant energy resources to attract businesses, develop infrastructure, and fund programs that end our dangerous dependence on OPEC Continue Reading
America’s Untapped Energy Weapon
The following op-ed by Ambassador John Bolton and T. Boone Pickens ran at Politico.com on August 4, 2014. The ongoing Israel operations in Gaza, combined with the continuing, brutal sectarian fighting in Iraq and the prospect of that country’s disintegration, have driven oil prices up and will likely keep them high for some time. Combined Continue Reading
US Navy Targets Energy Security
The Department of Defense is aggressively developing a more secure energy platform for the armed services. Proof of that came in the Navy’s recently released annual procurement report, which, for the first time, requests military-specification diesel fuel and jet fuel that are blended with biofuels. According to the Energy Information Administration: The U.S. Navy’s interest in Continue Reading
A victory in our campaign
Here’s a quick update on another success. Thanks to your help, the National Conference of Weights & Measures decided this week that natural gas as a transportation fuel won’t be dispensed and measured to be sold by the kilogram. Government types who want to sell natural gas like that clearly don’t want to get off Continue Reading
My plan for advancing the cause of energy security
We’re celebrating six years of the Pickens Plan by continuing to refine and expand the principles we’ve been working toward. Because of your hard work, energy policy is an agenda item in a huge percentage of federal, state, and local campaigns leading up to the elections this November. I have created a short video explaining Continue Reading
Surging North American Oil-and-Gas Production Pushes Prices Down
Analysts were predicting that the summer of 2014 would see the perfect storm, a collision of geopolitics and climactic conditions that would send energy prices through the roof. Yet The Wall Street Journal is reporting that domestic energy prices are holding steady and even dropping, thanks in large measure to an increase in North American energy production. A frigid winter Continue Reading
The Five Pickens Principles of Energy
As we celebrate the 6th anniversary of the Pickens Plan, I’ve come up with a great way to summarize what we should focus on to ensure we continue to make progress in achieving the goal of greater energy security for our nation. Remember, a key objective is eliminating once and for all the national security Continue Reading