Take a ride with Boone
The Ft. Worth Transportation Authority picked up Boone in Dallas in a natural gas bus. Go for a clean energy ride. All aboard! Continue Reading
Tell President-elect Obama the Pickens Plan is the answer!
Please take a minute or two and check out Barack Obama’s transition website. He’s asking people to tell him what they think. It’s a perfect opportunity for each one of us to tell him and his people about our plan and why we believe it’s important to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. Continue Reading
168 U.S. Mayors Have Signed the Pickens Pledge!
To date 168 Mayors have signed the Pickens Pledge, joining T. Boone Pickens’ national campaign to reduce foreign oil imports by utilizing abundant domestic resources including wind power and natural gas. From Las Vegas, NV, to Bismarck, ND, to Philadelphia, PA, mayors from cities large and small, East to West and throughout the heartland agree that the Pickens Plan is the best answer to solving the greatest issue facing our nation today: energy dependence. Continue Reading
Boone for Texan of the Year!
The Texas Monthly Magazine is the premier magazine of its type in the Lone Star State. Editor-in-chief Evan Smith has written an op-ed piece about Boone Pickens suggesting that he be named the Dallas Morning News “Texan of the Year.” Mr. Smith’s blog “T. Boone Pickens is my pick for Texan of the Year” is Continue Reading
Boone in Fort Worth
T. Boone Pickens was the featured speaker at a luncheon celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Fort Worth, Texas Transportation Authority – known as “The T.” The lunch was sponsored by the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce and attracted over 400 people. Boone and the Executive Director of The T, Dick Rudell, had a conversation Continue Reading
T. Boone Pickens, Your Car is Ready
Hey, Army! We are having an impact just about everywhere. You know that Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND) has announced he will be introducing some of the Pickens Plan in the United States Senate when the new Congress convenes next year. That’s very good news. On the vehicle side, Toyota is displaying a concept car which Continue Reading
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
T. Boone Pickens had an op-ed piece in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram today congratulating the city’s transit authority (called “The T”) on its decision 20 years ago to switch its bus fleet from diesel to compressed natural gas (CNG). He points out that Fort Worth was well ahead of its time in being concerned about Continue Reading
Meet Boone's daughter
Text: Dateline: Scottsdale, Arizona – Pam Pickens says it as well as her dad! Continue Reading
Chicago Tribune
Capping off a furious week of television and radio appearances, speeches, “conversations” and interviews, Boone had a major opinion piece published in the Chicago Tribune on Sunday. He reminded the readers of President-elect Barack Obama’s home-town newspaper that despite the (temporary) decline in oil prices, we are still importing 70 percent of the oil we Continue Reading
President-Elect Obama Insists America Must Break Its Addiction to Foreign Oil
In his first interview since winning the nation's highest office, President-elect Obama told 60 Minutes on Sunday night that doing something about America's dependency on foreign oil was even "more important" now that the price of imported oil has fallen from record highs this summer. Continue Reading