Total U.S. Spend on Foreign Oil Rose to $39.9 Billion for Month of March
Price of Oil Up $12.2 Billion From March 2010 Dallas – April 13, 2011 – In his monthly update on the level of foreign oil imports in the U.S., energy expert T. Boone Pickens said that based on the latest figures from the Federal Reserve Economic Database, the U.S. imported 72 percent of its oil, Continue Reading
NY Times Op-Ed Applauds NAT GAS Act
Joe Nocera wrote an op-ed piece for the New York Times which appeared on April 12 in which he applauds the introduction of the NAT GAS Act (H.R. 1380). Nocera writes that People in the know call it the Boone Pickens bill.” Writing about the abundance of natural gas, Nocera says, Most experts say there Continue Reading
Forbes Blogger Interviews Boone
Rich Karlgaard blogged on the Forbes.com site that he had interviewed T. Boone Pickens over four nights recently in front of live audiences. Karlgaard wrote there was “an underlying tension of Boone “trying to convince earnest San Francisco Bay Area liberals about the virtues of natural gas. How did Pickens do in front of liberal, Continue Reading
NAT GAS Act is introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives!
We got the bill filed – it’s HR 1380 – the NAT GAS Act. We are moving on up now, the President is for this. We’ve got 129 cosponsors already – look at the list at www.dailypickens.com and if your Member of Congress isn’t on the list, email or call them and tell them to Continue Reading
Boone: The New and Improved NAT GAS Act has been introduced
Army: I have some big news to share. The new and improved NAT GAS Act has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives with a level of enthusiasm and momentum we’ve never had before. The bill, which is H.R. 1380, was introduced on Wednesday by a team of four Congressmen – two Republicans and Continue Reading
Sponsors & Co-Sponsors of the NAT GAS Act (HR 1380)
Following is the list of Co-Sponsors of the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act of 2011 (HR 1380). List current as of 4/8/11. If you don’t see your Member of Congress listed here, please contact their office by calling the main Congressional switchboard – 202-225-3121 – and ask for them by name. Rep Continue Reading
New NAT GAS Act is Introduced in the U.S. House
Congressmen John Sullivan (R-OK), Dan Boren (D-OK), John Larson (D-CT) and Kevin Brady (R-TX) have introduced H.R. 1380, the ‘New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions’ (NAT GAS) Act. This bill will be the legislative vehicle to replace millions of barrels of imported oil with domestic natural gas, especially for fleet vehicles. The original sponsors Continue Reading
Pickens and the President
The following article ran in The Waco Tribune-Herald on Sunday, April 3, 2011. When it comes to strange political bedfellows, you’d have to search long and hard to find as unique a pair as President Barack Obama and arch-conservative entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens. One is a smoothly articulate, Harvard-educated attorney with liberal credentials. The other is a blunt, talespinning Continue Reading
Stepping on the Gas
In this weekend's Wall Street Journal, leading energy analyst Daniel Yergin writes that America's enormous shale gas reserves have the potential to end the country's dependence on Middle Eastern oil. Continue Reading
President Obama on Energy Security
In a speech on energy security at Georgetown University on March 30, 2011, President Obama talks about the benefits of natural gas. Continue Reading