As soon as health care wraps up in Congress, Washington's number one public policy issue must become winning approval of a plan to end our dangerous and costly dependence on foreign oil.
George Pataki | Posted 11.19.2009 | Green
While we will have great sources of renewable fuel down the road, we need something now. And what is available now, and proven to be in great abundance in the United States, is natural gas.
T. Boone Pickens | Posted 07.27.2009 | Green
Do you think the U.S. can afford to spend half a trillion dollars on imported oil? I sure don't. Yet that's how much we spent in 2008.
T. Boone Pickens | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green
There is another domestic fuel that is part of the alternative fuel mix, but has not been as widely discussed -- and that is propane. It's an important part of the Pickens Plan.
T. Boone Pickens | Posted 06.01.2009 | Green
Just a few years ago energy experts were writing natural gas off. Now, it's almost as if divine intervention has occurred. We're swimming in it.
T. Boone Pickens | Posted 04.19.2009 | Green
Ending our addiction to foreign oil was my goal when I launched the Pickens Plan on July 8. Do you want to guess who got my plan right off the bat? The American people.
T. Boone Pickens | Posted 02.28.2009 | Green
We have the capacity to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by 50% overall and reduce to zero the amount of oil we import from the Middle East, Africa and Venezuela. We don't have to be at the mercy of OPEC.
AP | ANDREW MIGA | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green
WASHINGTON — Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is adding a new wrinkle to his push for U.S. energy independence: monthly updates to remind Americans...
Wall Street Journal | NEIL KING JR. | Posted 02.14.2009 | Green
Mr. Pickens is also amassing a nationwide cadre of supporters, including a "Pickens Army" of 1.3 million online adherents. One such foot soldier is Ry...
Josh Nelson | Posted 02.11.2009 | Green
Nobody who knows what they are talking about really thinks it makes much sense to replace our dependence on one dirty fossil fuel with another.
Larry Gellman | Posted 12.05.2008 | Business
For the last 20 years, I've been hearing that we're in the midst of the Greatest Wealth Transfer in History. The slogan has remained the same but both the beneficiaries of the wealth have changed.
David Sassoon | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green
Pickens has always said he's getting involved with wind for the money -- not because he's an environmentalist or because he cares about global warming.
Josh Nelson | Posted 11.22.2008 | Green
It is starting to look like Pickens has a bad habit of telling a few whoppers in every public appearance. Lie #1: Democratic candidates don't know how reducing CO2 emissions by 60-80% is possible.
Chicago Tribune | David Greising | Posted 11.14.2008 | Chicago
The stock market had opened down nearly 800 points Friday morning, then bounced back by 500, and T. Boone Pickens paused from describing his big idea ...
Josh Nelson | Posted 11.07.2008 | Politics
As has been pointed out repeatedly, Sarah Palin does not "get" the energy situation. Truth be told, she probably "gets" the energy situation about as well as Pickens himself gets global warming.
Christiana Wyly | Posted 10.23.2008 | Green
"Son, I used to be IN the Oil Lobby! We don't have to worry about them. We the people are more powerful than any lobby any day of the week."
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 09.28.2008 | Green
While the Democratic National Convention took control of Denver this week, a reported 4,000 people showed up to a Ralph Nader campaign rally at the Un...
Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 09.28.2008 | Green
T. Boone Pickens, Carl Pope and John Podesta walk into a big tent. OK, OK, the "isn't it weird that these guys agree?" joke is getting a little tired...
Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 09.26.2008 | Green
Could it be that the timid approach to climate change is missing the boat? Leaders are failing to recognize what will most likely move us -- a challenge at the measure of our appetites.
Josh Nelson | Posted 09.26.2008 | Green
Will John Podesta and Carl Pope a) greenwash a Republican operative oil man who funded the swift boat vets and has plans to make billions selling natural gas and exploiting our water supply? or b) do the right thing?
Climate Progress | Posted 09.25.2008 | Green
In his first TV ad, conservative billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens said "This Is One Emergency We Can't Drill Our Way Out Of." Although Pickens clea...
Josh Nelson | Posted 09.22.2008 | Politics
Can anyone explain to me why I am supposed to put up with leaders of the environmental movement and Democratic party praising a man who is an enemy of both?
AP | Posted 09.20.2008 | Green
Las Vegas: Representatives from Google Inc. and General Electric Co. said Tuesday that widespread use of renewable energy in United States would be po...
Larry Gellman | Posted 09.19.2008 | Politics
In just a few years Pickens has moved from being a totally partisan political animal to a man who is looking for the partial truth in the disparate views of a variety of people.
Examiner, Dealbreaker | Dave Burdick | Posted 09.15.2008 | Business
Who's supposed to love Boone Pickens and who's supposed to hate him? This is no longer simple; he's breaking rules and it's frankly a little too taxin...
T. Boone Pickens | Posted 12.31.2009 | Green