With All This Natural Gas, Who Needs Oil?
That’s the question the Christian Science Monitor asks its readers to ponder as they consider the implications of America’s abundance of clean-burning natural gas. “Natural gas has suddenly become almost everyone’s favorite chassis for building an energy independent future.” According to this international news organization, both of the nominees for the presidency this year are Continue Reading
Boone on CNN's Starting Point
This morning on “Starting Point,” BP Capital Management founder and chairman T. Boone Pickens explains why no one person is responsible for the gas prices. He also explains why the tax code needs fixing and why the Keystone XL pipeline makes sense. Continue Reading
Fortune Features "The United States of Natural Gas"
Fortune Magazine put American energy security smack dab on the front cover of its April 30th issue. Titled “America’s New Job Machine is Heating Up,” its theme was a message that should be music to the ears of every support of the Pickens Plan: “The coming energy renaissance could be just the elixir the U.S. Continue Reading
Pickens Applauds North Carolina Energy Plan
T. Boone Pickens has enthusiastically endorsed what the Raleigh News-Observer called a “sweeping legislative package that would reshape the state’s political landscape with new boards, task forces and a smorgasbord of requirements. The package includes requirements for the state to purchase vehicles that run on natural gas and, according to Pickens, is an “aggressive move Continue Reading
T. Robbins talks T. Boone on P. Morgan
Self-help guru Tony Robbins appeared on CNN’s Piers Morgan program and listed energy as the number one issue facing America. He went on to say that Boone Pickens’ plan to convert eight million heavy duty trucks to run on domestic natural gas would “wipe out about 60 percent of our need for foreign oil.” Continue Reading
North Carolina legislature moves to move the state's school buses off OPEC oil and onto domestic natural gas
Statement from T. Boone Pickens: “America is waking up to the important role that our ever-expanding reserve use of domestic natural gas can do in transportation to solve the national security and economic crisis tied to our continued dependence on OPEC oil. The good news is that, while we wait for the federal government to Continue Reading
Aspen Cleans Up Its Act – With Natural Gas
The Governor’s Energy Office has confirmed that one of the best known destinations in the Colorado Rockies has made the switch to domestic natural gas. At a ground breaking ceremony on April 14, the Roaring Fork Transit Authority (RFTA) announced plans to purchase 22 fleet buses that will operate using compressed natural gas (CNG) instead Continue Reading
Frito-Lay Puts Chips on Natural Gas Trucks
From the NY Times Webpage: On Tuesday, Frito-Lay announced it would add 67 trucks that would run on compressed natural gas, known as CNG, to its fleet. Eventually, the company said, a majority of its longer-range vehicles would run on CNG, as well as liquefied natural gas for longer-distance hauls. The CNG-powered trucks would save Continue Reading
FedEx and GM Execs Call for Natural Gas
In an interview on CNBC the chairman of Federal Express, Frederick Smith, and the former vice chair of GM, Robert Lutz, talked about the need to wean Americans from their dependence on OPEC oil. Smith said, “There is no free market for oil. It’s controlled by a cartel, OPEC. They own 80 percent to 90 Continue Reading