Pickens Plan Media Coverage 11.23.10
Pickens: Why the US Needs Natural Gas Now – CNBC – 11/23/10 Energy and the Lame Duck – New York Times – 11/23/10 The Haynesville Shale: Major Opportunity & Risk – 24/7 Wall Street – 11/23/10 Natural Gas: Worse Than Coal & Diesel in Greenhouse Emissions? – Benzinga – 11/22/10 Famed Oilman Has Energy Solution Continue Reading
New York Times Urges Congress to Pass the Pickens Plan
In a scathing editorial, The New York Times lambasted Washington for its failure to pass legislation concerning energy and the environment. But it held out hope that in the next few weeks, Congress will right this wrong by ramping up the use of natural gas in heavy-duty trucks. Continue Reading
Deutsche Bank Predicts Massive Switch to Natural Gas
Reuters reports that global financial powerhouse Deutsche Bank is forecasting that it won’t be long before cleaner burning natural gas replaces coal as America’s leading power source. The Deutsche Bank report, which is titled Natural Gas and Renewables: A Secure Low Carbon Future Energy Plan for the United States, predicts that the falling price of America’s Continue Reading
Why the US Needs Natural Gas Now
The following op-ed by T. Boone Pickens ran at CNBC.com on November 23, 2010. I have spent the past two-and-a-half years promoting an energy plan for America — The Pickens Plan. On Monday, I read that the plan has been adopted not by the U.S. Congress, but by China. The plan I am advocating has two Continue Reading
New Yorkers Save With Natural Gas
This week, new gas stations opened in Albany and in Syracuse, New York. So what’s the big news? Both are compressed natural gas (CNG) fueling stations, and that’s got people talking. The CNG stations were funded by the Department of Energy’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Clean Cities funding. One part of the rationale in building the Continue Reading
Boone’s NY Media Tour
Breaking U.S. dependence on OPEC oil…MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough asks “who can be against that?” With today’s natural gas prices, CNBC’s Joe Kernan says “the Pickens Plan makes even more sense.” Bloomberg’s Tom Keene suggests “we’re addicted to foreign oil” and asks Boone how we can break it. Continue Reading
"Almost Universal Acceptance of Natural Gas" Says Kaiser
America’s energy future was front and center in Oklahoma City this week as Boone Pickens joined George Kaiser, Devon Energy CEO John Richels, and SandRidge Energy CEO Tom Ward at the Creativity World Forum to discuss the use of natural gas a bridge fuel to help end America’s dangerous addiction to foreign oil. Kaiser, who owns Kaiser-Francis Continue Reading
Bipartisan Support for Greater Use of Natural Gas and Electric Vehicles
The Center for American Progress reported on the Senate’s opportunity to pass bipartisan legislation during the lame duck session that would take the first steps toward developing an energy plan for America. The center’s Daniel Weiss writes that Majority Leader Harry Reid’s bill, Promoting Natural Gas and Electric Vehicles Act (S. 3815), features elements that Continue Reading
Hatch Considers Passage of a Natural-Gas Bill a Must
In an interview at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, Utah's senior Senator, Orrin Hatch, told the press that passage of legislation supporting the use of domestic natural gas as a transportation fuel was of critical importance. “Every day that we delay this is a day that we are hurting our country,” said Senator Hatch. Continue Reading
Weekly Army Report
Each week we’ll be reporting on some of the activities of our army members across the country. If you are interested in getting involved in your state, visit the State and District Leaders page here: https://pickensplan.com/district-leaderboard/ Legislative Update The total number of co-sponsors for the NAT GAS Act (HR 1835): 146 Members of Congress Is Continue Reading