News and Updates

OK, here's the plan for the Virtual March this week

  • March 30, 2009

Army, We’re heading into VM-Day this week. How the Virtual March is going to work is that each day of the march – Wednesday, Thursday and Friday – you are going to receive an email from me with a link to a place on the Pickens Plan website where you will be able to send Continue Reading

3,279,536 virtual marchers…can you believe it??

  • March 27, 2009

Army! I want to make sure you know how big next week’s Virtual March has gotten. In addition to the 1,469,431 Americans who have signed up directly on PickensPlan.com over the last 9 months, we also have commitments from more than 30 partner organizations who are bringing their members and employees to the march route Continue Reading

Fact of the Day – March 27,2009

Energy efficiency initiatives that reward consumers and businesses for reducing electricity and gas usage could result in utility bill savings of $168.6 billion, according to a report released by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Continue Reading

Pickens Plan Media Coverage 3.27.09

Hard Times for Some Hedge-Fund Managers – Dow Jones – 3/26/09 The Bottom Line – San Francisco Chronicle – 3/27/09 Pickens Plan is Hot Air that May Burn America – San Francisco Examiner – 3/26/09 Program Could Test Well on East Coast – The Sun News – 3/27/09 She’s Racing Hard, While Living Green – Continue Reading

Getting ready for the Virtual March

  • March 26, 2009

OK, Army. We’re just a week away from the Virtual March and we need to begin to focus on what we’re going to do and how we’re going to do it. I need you to start getting your gear in order, your battle plan in place, and your troops standing tall.  We are going to Continue Reading

Pickens Plan Media Coverage 3.26.09

Metadata: Revisiting The Pickens Plan – Forbes.com – 3/26/09 One Week Until Pickens’ “Virtual March” – KTUL – 3/25/09 Wired for Progress Version 2.0 – Center for American Progress Action Fund – 3/25/09 Pickens: Obama Coming Around to My Plan – NBC Dallas-Fort Worth – 3/25/09 Continue Reading

Fact of the Day – March 26, 2009

Clean Currents, a company offering wind electricity within Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. and Pepco service areas, said last week that the cost of its “greener” electricity is now lower for some customers than the cost of standard stuff from the utilities.  Clean Currents buys its wind power from wind farms in several other states, Continue Reading

Boone Rocks Columbus

Boone and Mike Morris, American Electric Power’s chairman, president, and CEO rocked a house full of America’s New Energy Army foot soldiers in Columbus, Ohio, as they count down to the Virtual March April 1-3! Continue Reading

Boone to Speak to Energy Summit at University of Missouri

T. Boone Pickens will be, according to a University press release, the “keynote speaker for a statewide Energy Summit hosted by the University of Missouri’s four campuses April 22-23 in Columbia, Missouri.” Pickens’ keynote address is scheduled for 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, April 22 (Earth Day) in Jesse Hall Auditorium on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. Continue Reading

Fact of the Day – March 25, 2009

  • March 25, 2009

AT&T Inc. recently announced it would spend up to $565 million to replace more than 15,000 gasoline-powered vehicles with a fleet powered by compressed natural gas and hybrid engines. “It’s obviously going to reduce our reliance on foreign oil.” AT&T chairman and chief executive Randall L. Stephenson Continue Reading