News and Updates

Thank you Center for American Progress Action Fund

  • March 3, 2009

In case you missed it, check out this video featuring our partners at The Center for American Progress Action Fund, John Podesta and Bracken Hendricks, at last week’s National Energy Summit. The team at The Center for American Progress Action Fund have been great collaborators and partners in leading America towards solving our energy problem. Continue Reading

Texas Christian University Town Hall

Check out this video of T. Boone speaking yesterday at a Town Hall meeting at Texas Christian University (video courtesy of the TCU Daily Skiff). Continue Reading

Pickens Plan Media Coverage 3.03.09

Long-Distance vs. Local is a Fight No One Can Win – The Packer – 3/2/09 Power Line Operator Wants To Connect Wind Turbines To Cities – Investor’s Business Daily – 3/2/09 Lights That Are Guaranteed – Bismarck Tribune – 3/2/09 Oil Mogul: Foreign Oil Dependency Worsening Crisis – TCU Daily Skiff – 3/3/09 Mesa Slows Continue Reading

Fact of the Day – March 3, 2009

Recently, Daimler Trucks North America delivered 100 new Natural Gas trucks for the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles’ Clean Truck Program.  The deployment of these near-zero emission trucks will lead to immediate improvements in air quality while enabling the ports to comply with some of the most stringent emissions reductions standards in the Continue Reading

Fact of the Day – March 2, 2009

  • March 2, 2009

An independent environmental review produced by Gladstein, Neandross & Associates determined that Waste Management’s equipment upgrade in Seattle to Natural Gas vehicles will reduce smog-causing NOx by 97 percent, toxic diesel particulate matter by 94 percent and greenhouse gas by 20 percent, over current levels. Continue Reading

Pickens Plan Media Coverage 3.2.09

MU Summit Looks at Energy Sources – Columbia Daily Tribune – 2/27/09 T. Boone Pickens Pitches Energy Plan in Montana – Associated Press – 2/27/09 Burrough: My Fellow Texans, Let’s Consider That Our State’s Day in Washington is Done – Austin American Statesman – 2/28/09 Pickens’ Mesa Power Slows Wind Farm Work – Dallas Morning Continue Reading

Building a New Economy Together

Boone continues on the road to push for the new energy army, and our partners at The Center for American Progress Action Fund are staying on message too. John Podesta and Bracken Hendricks have been great collaborators and partners in leading America towards solving our energy problem. Continue Reading

From the desk of T. Boone Pickens

  • February 28, 2009

Our dependence on foreign oil is a national security issue. Army: I wanted to make certain you’ve seen our new Pickens Plan ad.  This one talks about how our dependence on foreign oil can have real national security repercussions. Just last month Russia cut off supplies of natural gas to Europe because they were in Continue Reading

Fact of the Day – February 27, 2009

  • February 27, 2009

For the third straight year, the Honda GX – a car which runs on compressed natural gas – has been named the “greenest car” for sale in America by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy. Continue Reading

Pickens Plan Media Coverage 2.26.09

T. Boone Pickens to Speak at UM System’s First Energy Summit – The Rolla Daily News – 2/26/09 PW: CERA WEEK 09: “Doom and Gloom” – Petroleum World – 2/27/09 Think Pink – Toledo Free Press – 2/27/09 Walters Power International Sells Turbines to Power Resort – The Oklahoman – 2/27/09 One Equals 325 – Continue Reading