News and Updates

Oil Imports cost Americans $41.6 Billion in March

  • April 11, 2012

The Energy Information Agency has reported that in March the United States imported 332 million barrels of oil at a cost of $41.6 billion or nearly a million dollars per minute. Since President Obama called for an “all of the above” energy policy in his State of the Union address in January, we have imported Continue Reading

Watch Boone Live!

Pickens Plan founder T. Boone Pickens will be a featured panelist at The New York Times Energy For Tomorrow Conference, which will stream live online at 1100 EST at www.nytenergyfortomorrow.com. Boone will join former Energy Czar Carol Browner, Duke Energy CEO Jim Rogers, and others on a distinguished panel moderated by Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Thomas Friedman of Continue Reading

American Public Gas Association to Congress: Pass the NAT GAS Act

  • April 9, 2012

April 5, 2012 American Public Gas Association (APGA) sent a letter to the chairmen and ranking members of the Senate Energy Committee, House Energy and Commerce Committee and House Natural Resources Committee urging them to support the New Alternative to Give Americans Solutions Act (NAT GAS Act) in response to the recent and dramatic increase Continue Reading

Foreign oil continues to be a problem for us

  • April 4, 2012

Since the State of the Union, the US has imported 611 million barrels of oil at a cost of $71 billion. Continue Reading

Brace Yourself for $148 A Barrel Oil

Sanctions against Iran and a resurgent global economy could drive the price of oil to a new high this summer. That's what T. Boone Pickens told Larry Kudlow on Tuesday's edition of The Kudlow Report. Continue Reading

Senate Vote

  • March 30, 2012

Where I’m from in Eastern Oklahoma, 51 beats 47, but not in the U.S. Senate. So the NAT GAS amendment on the transportation bill didn’t pass, but we’re going to keep pushing, we will get another crack at it, and we’ll go harder next time. Continue Reading

Senate Vote

Where I’m from in Eastern Oklahoma, 51 beats 47, but not in the U.S. Senate. So the NAT GAS amendment on the transportation bill didn’t pass, but we’re going to keep pushing, we will get another crack at it, and we’ll go harder next time. Continue Reading

Natural Gas a "Game Changer" – Pickens & Rendell

  • March 25, 2012

At a symposium sponsored by the Wall Street Journal, T. Boone Pickens and former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell discussed natural gas as a “game changer.” Pennsylvania is essentially ground zero for the Marcellus Shale which contains one of the world’s largest natural gas reserves. To read the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of the discussion, click Continue Reading