40 years ago today, we committed to solve the OPEC oil threat
Since I started the Pickens Plan in the summer of 2008, I have reminded Americans that every President since Richard Nixon has promised to lead our country to energy independence and no one has made good on that pledge. As it happens, it was 40 years ago today, November 7, 1973, that President Nixon first Continue Reading
Open up ANWR
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline was built more than 30 years ago, and at one time we were getting more than 2 million barrels a day out of it. Now that number has fallen almost 75 percent to about half a million barrels a day. I’m all for getting it back up to 2 million, aren’t you? Continue Reading
More Power to Natural Gas!
The increasing popularity of natural gas as a transportation fuel in the U.S. was the subject of articles in two of the country’s leading newspapers this week. Both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times took a closer look at the advantages afforded by cleaner, cheaper, domestic natural gas, and, in doing so, each Continue Reading
Our energy policy is our military policy. Surely we can do better.
This opinion piece by T. Boone Pickens was originally posted on Forbes.com. I have been saying for many years that the United States has made one of the worst deals in history when we decided to continue paying 100 percent of the cost of protecting oil coming through the Strait of Hormuz even though we Continue Reading
U.S. Imports Almost 300 Million Barrels of Oil in September
America’s dangerous addiction to foreign oil continues to drain billions of dollars from our economy. All told, Americans spent a whopping $763,390.50 per minute last month to buy 296 million barrels of imported oil. The total price tag for imported oil in September? $33 billion dollars. Despite the impressive gains in domestic oil and gas production, Continue Reading
Can you meet us in Albany on Wednesday, October 30?
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has proposed comprehensive regulations to allow the construction and operation of new liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities. It’s a big step in the right direction, yet there are some who say LNG storage tanks are unsafe. NYSDEC is holding a hearing where the public will be able Continue Reading
40 years after the OPEC oil embargo, we’re still dependent
Normally, the Arab Oil Embargo of 1973 would not be a favorite topic of mine. But last week it definitely was, thanks to SAFE’s OPEC Oil Embargo + 40 Conference in Washington. I spent a great day with an amazing group of real leaders discussing different ways to get our country off of OPEC oil Continue Reading
I need you to show your support for LNG in New York State
ATTN NEW YORK MEMBERS OF THE PICKENS PLAN ARMY! I need your help. We’re making great progress, especially on a state-by-state basis. By eliminating barriers to using domestic natural gas, we are decreasing our dangerous dependence on foreign oil. Cleaner air, more jobs, cheaper fuel – this will make a huge difference. Your home state Continue Reading
Insights from OPEC Oil Embargo +40
Selected quotes from OPEC Oil Embargo +40, a National Summit on Energy Security held in Washington, D.C. “Think about it. Go back 20 or 30 years ago. Diesel wasn’t very ubiquitous in this country. Forty percent of our gas stations today nationally have diesel in them. If 40 percent of them had a compressed natural Continue Reading
Arab Sheiks Need – And Want – Higher Oil Prices
As U.S. oil and gas production numbers continue to clim, oil prices have leveled off. In fact, for the first time in three years, some American consumers are seeing the price of gasoline at the pump dip below $3 a gallon. And that’s got Arab sheiks worried. According to The New York Times – and Continue Reading