Boone on CNBC: Keystone Pipeline and Natural Gas
T. Boone Pickens explains why the Keystone Pipeline environmental review will not impact the prices of gasoline and oil prices. Pickens also weighs in on natural gas and asks the “Street Signs” crew to vote for him in CNBC’s Top 25 most influential business leaders poll. Continue Reading
President’s State of the Union: A plan without action isn’t a plan. It’s a speech. Let’s act on energy.
President Barack Obama talked about energy in his State of the Union address as every President since Richard Nixon has done. In his State of the Union address, President Obama came out strongly for the continued development of natural gas as a major American resource. That is great news and music to my ears. I Continue Reading
T. Boone Pickens’ Statement on President Obama’s State of the Union Address and The Call for Expanded Use of Natural Gas in U.S. Transportation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 28, 2014 Contact: Jay Rosser Email: [email protected] Contact: Amy Weiss Email: [email protected] T. Boone Pickens’ Statement on President Obama’s State of the Union Address and The Call for Expanded Use of Natural Gas in U.S. Transportation “The goal for me is and always has been to get our country off of Continue Reading
Wind's Outlook Remains Strong
The following op-ed by T. Boone Pickens ran in the Des Moines Register on Wednesday, January 21, 2014. In 2008, I launched the Pickens Plan to help get America off OPEC oil. Our reliance on Middle East oil has been the number one threat to our national security and economy. Thanks to advances in the Continue Reading
40 Years in the Energy Desert
The following article about U.S. energy policy by T. Boone Pickens was published at RealClearPolitics.com on January 16, 2014. When we were children we learned, from Exodus, about the Children of Israel wandering in the desert for 40 years. When we were children, 40 years seemed like, well, a lifetime. I’m 85 and 40 years still Continue Reading
America's 2013 Energy Report Card
Some good news! This week the Energy Information Administration released final oil import numbers for 2013. Thanks to advances in domestic production and greater efficiency, Americans managed to decrease total oil imports by 360 million barrels to 3.5 billion barrels in 2013, down from a total of 3.9 billion barrels in 2012. Guess what that means? Continue Reading
Why I’m for Lifting the Ban on Crude Oil Exports
Forty years ago, the Arab Oil Embargo changed the way America thinks about energy. After finding ourselves at the mercy of a bunch of oil states, we panicked. The government put price controls in place, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was launched, and all oil exports were banned. Thanks to recent breakthroughs in technology, however, our Continue Reading
Los Angeles Times Chronicles Switch to Natural Gas
Boone Pickens has long touted the many advantages of using domestic natural gas as a transportation fuel. According to the Los Angeles Times, a host of U.S. companies now agree with the legendary energy investor. Frito-Lay North America Inc., Proctor & Gamble Co. and United Parcel Service Inc. are among the companies expanding their natural gas fleets. Continue Reading
We're Getting There!
For the first time since the launch of the Pickens Plan in July 2008, oil imports accounted for less than 50 percent of the total U.S. monthly supply. Figures released this week indicate that only 47 percent of the oil used in the U.S. in November came from overseas. Unfortunately, those 281 million barrels of Continue Reading