Pickens Plan Media Coverage 1.7.09
Pickens’ Big Plan for U.S. Energy Future – NECN – 1/7/09 Commodities Down, Hedge Funds Not Out As Market Looks To ’09 – Dow Jones – 1/6/09 Oil Prices to Top $100/bbl by End of 2010-Pickens – Reuters – 1/7/09 State Official Urges Manufacturing Aid – San Antonio Express – 1/7/09 T. Boone Pickens Likes Continue Reading
Jackson’s Proposed “Sustainability Strategy for Vehicles” is a merry-go-round that will keep America dependent upon foreign oil for decades to come.
– Earlier this week, Mitch Jackson of FedEx argued that natural gas was not a solution to displace our country’s current foreign oil dependence. He claims that diesel is lower in carbon and that the real solution should be hybrid, plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles powered by diesel and renewable energy sources like wind Continue Reading
Students Support the Pickens Plan
T. Boone Pickens did his first Town Hall of 2009 in Houston at Rice University on Monday afternoon. It was sponsored by the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. Prior to the Town Hall, Boone met with about a dozen students who are specifically studying the issues surrounding energy policy. The questions were Continue Reading
Oil Price Wars!
Army! We have to stay on offense! We can’t let the new Congress and the new Administration shove our dependence on foreign oil to the back burner. Here’s why. When we started the Pickens Plan last July, oil was at about $147 per barrel, gasoline at the pump was $4.11, and we were importing about Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 1.6.09
T. Boone Pickens to speak at Rice – KHOU – 1/6/09 The Promise of Wind: Embracing America’s Fastest-Growing Form of Renewable Energy – E/The Environmental Magazine – January/February 2009 Shale Gas: Savior or Treadmill? – Energy Tribune – 1/5/09 Reader: Join the Pickens Plan – The News and Tribune – 1/6/09 Famous Last Words: Five Continue Reading
A New Year, a New Town Hall PLUS a Webcast!
T. Boone Pickens will be doing a Town Hall event at Rice University in Houston, Texas on Tuesday, January 6 in the Shell Oil Auditorium. The event starts at 4:00 pm CENTRAL standard time. The Town Hall is sponsored by the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. This is the Institute’s description from Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 1.3-1.5.09
2008 Was No-Show Year for Local IPOs – Orange County Business Journal – 1/5/09 Wind Maven, Kylah McNabb, Wants to See Oklahoma’s Power – The Oklahoman – 1/4/09 Transportation Forum Looks at Road Ahead – Houston Chronicle – 1/4/09 Lower Dependence on Foreign Oil – The Register-Mail (IL) – 1/2/09 Less Oil, Less Credit: Forecasts Continue Reading
Yes We Can, and Yes We Will
Yes We Can, and Yes We Will Continue Reading
Boone Featured in the “Saturday Evening Post”
Boone is featured in the January-February issue of the famous “Saturday Evening Post” titled, T. Boone Pickens – the Man with the Plan The writer, Skip Hollandsworth, takes a look at Boone the man and the principles which guide the Pickens Plan. On Wind One 3-megawatt wind turbine, which stands 410 feet tall, with blades Continue Reading
Boone Pickens named Dallas' Excutive of the Year
The Dallas Business Journal has chosen T. Boone Pickens as its “Executive of the Year.” The Dallas Business Journal – one of the nation-wide organization of business publications, pointed to Boone’s extraordinary charity giving. The Journal quoted Bill Lively, “an authority on Dallas philanthropy” as saying, “I can’t imagine if many, or anyone, has given Continue Reading