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...

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...

Getting America the energy plan it deserves has always been the chief goal of the Pickens Plan. A lot of what needs to be done requires one simple thing: Leadership. But there's plenty of red tape that needs to be cut, and that's what I'm talking about in this video...

Whenever I bring up the importance of getting America the energy plan it deserves, someone always says, "Boone, let's not pick winners and losers. Let's let the market decide."

There's only problem with that statement. When it comes to the world's oil supply, there is no free market. OPEC...

Since I launched the Pickens Plan in July 2008, I've gone coast to coast, made hundreds of speeches, been on I don't know how many TV shows, and met thousands of individuals like you who insist that America end its dangerous dependence on foreign oil.

As you'll see in this...

I've been working in the energy industry for 60 years, and I promise you I have seen more changes in the last 10 than I did in the first 50! With that in mind, I've invited Brian Bradshaw to sit down with me and discuss a whole host of these...

It's been almost five years since we set out to get America the energy plan it deserves. One thing hasn't changed: the need for aggressive and effective energy leadership in Washington. For the last four decades, Republicans and Democrats alike have fallen short in this regard. Long story short --...

In Article I, Section 8, the United States Constitution grants Congress the "Power To," among other things, "provide for the common Defense and general Welfare of the United States"; "regulate Commerce with foreign Nations"; and "lay and collect Taxes."

While the Constitution does not speak directly about "establishing an energy...

One billion dollars every day.

That's how much money we're sending overseas to fund our dangerous and growing addiction to OPEC oil.

This year, I've spent a lot of time talking about natural gas, and the need to tap into everything domestic--from nuclear to natural gas, from wind...

September 14 is OPEC's -- the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries -- 50th birthday. OPEC was formed in 1960 by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela. Since then it has expanded to 12 countries, but its goal is the same: To influence and, if necessary, manipulate the price of...

The Congressional Independence Day recess is here. The amount of time available to pass substantive legislation before both houses adjourn is dwindling.

Between the end of the July 4th Recess and the August Recess, Congress will try to pass the financial reform bill, and the Senate will fulfill its Constitutional...

The Center for American Progress (CAP) has released a study titled "Developing Natural Gas for Heavy Vehicles" on the need to get our heavy trucks and buses off imported oil and on to domestic natural gas. By focusing on heavy vehicles we can reduce our oil imports by...

I've been in the energy business my entire career, and I can assure you this 81-year-old has chased down more deals than anyone you'll ever meet. A lot of those deals didn't pan out - that's just how the game is played - but every now and then a big...

The 1.6 million members of the Pickens Plan Army already know my New Year's resolution: as soon as health care wraps up in Congress, to see that Washington's number one public policy issue becomes winning approval of a plan to end our dangerous and costly dependence on foreign oil. Since...

It is refreshing to see in Washington, D.C., legislation boasting broad, bipartisan support. One such bill is the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act -- H.R. 1835 in the House and S. 1408 in the Senate.

There is a finite amount of oil available in the world. It...

Last week the Department of Energy (DoE) released a list of 25 projects under the Clean Cities program that will be funded with nearly $300 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Of those, 19 included plans to develop alternative fuel and compressed natural gas (CNG) or liquified natural...

Some people are of the opinion that I jump-started my plan to end our country's addiction to foreign oil on a whim. I may have launched the Pickens Plan in July 2008, but the truth is our lack of a national energy plan has been worrying me for most of...

Over a year ago, I launched the Pickens Plan with a single goal in mind: to end America's addiction to foreign oil. It's been a long 13 months, and I'm not saying this because I've spent $60 million of my own money to open people's eyes to this problem. I'm...

I get a lot of invitations to events and activities, and the truth is, I have to decline a good number of them. But last year when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid asked me to attend the National Clean Energy Summit at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, I didn't...

The highly respected analytics firm, Stratfor, began its report of a recent survey of natural gas reserves in the United States this way:

In 2006, natural gas production in the United States appeared to be in permanent decline. Domestic production had flattened out below the 2002 peak of 693 billion...