Tell your state legislators to support SB519 for Oklahoma's energy future
Senate Bill 519 (SB 519), authored by Senator Rob Standridge and Representative David Derby, makes critical updates to Oklahoma’s motor fuel tax law to create an environment that promotes natural gas vehicle (NGV) adoption and investment in refueling infrastructure. Unfortunately Oklahoma currently taxes domestic liquefied natural gas (LNG) almost twice as much as foreign diesel. Continue Reading
U.S. Spends $1 Billion a Day on Imported Oil in April
The oil import numbers are in for April. As usual, the news is anything but good. As of last month, the average price has settled in comfortably above a floor of $100 per barrel. According to figures just released, $102.25 was the average price per barrel of oil imported to the U.S. Meanwhile, the cost of Continue Reading
More Natural Gas Coming to Kansas City
The Kansas City Star reports that the Paris of the Plains is about to go from one natural-gas filling station to many. For years, Kansas Gas Service has operated the only place in the area where the public could fill up a vehicle powered by compressed natural gas and take advantage of a fuel that Continue Reading
Rethinking Reputation
My father told me that a fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan any day. I live by those words, and they are why we have been able to accomplish as much as we have with the Pickens Plan. Come to find out two writers named Fraser Seitel (Co-Founder and Managing Continue Reading
It’s time to get on American resources
The U.S. is producing a lot more oil than it did just a few years ago. Yet the price at the pump hasn’t dropped a single penny. Why not? Because we import so many billions of dollars worth of OPEC oil that we end up paying global prices. There’s only one way to stop this, Continue Reading
Leadership Absent on Energy Plan
The following op-ed by T. Boone Pickens ran in the Omaha World-Herald on Wednesday, May 1, 2013. We’ll soon learn the fate of the Keystone XL pipeline that has caused such concern in Nebraska and in the environmental community. If we kill Keystone, we will truly go down as the dumbest generation ever. One of Continue Reading
Supply and Demand: A Conversation with T. Boone Pickens
Over the last five years, our country has taken great steps toward enhancing our energy security. How? By using new technology developed by American companies that offers better access to our plentiful resources. It’s an amazing story, and it’s transformational as well. I’ve been in the energy industry my entire career, but I’ve never seen Continue Reading
Boone visits University of Southern Indiana
Great on stage conversation with Dr. Karen Bonnell, Professor of Communications and Interim Director, Communication Program University of Southern Indiana, during my recent visit to Evansville. Continue Reading
New York Times' Says Time has Come for Natural Gas
The New York Times headlined a major story this week with “Natural Gas Becomes Fuel for the Long Haul.” In the article, written by reporters Diane Cardwell and Clifford Krause, points out that the “momentum of natural gas for transportation is accelerating” with United Parcel Service preparing to announce it will move 800 of its Continue Reading
Natural Gas Becomes a Fuel for the Long Haul
The following article was written by Diane Cardwell and Clifford Krauss and was published by The New York Times on April 22, 2013. The natural gas boom has already upended the American power industry, displacing coal and bringing consumers cheaper electricity. Now the trucking industry, with its millions of 18-wheelers moving products like potato chips, underarm Continue Reading