Tboone Pickens

The Oil Patch Vaudeville Act

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 04.30.2009 | Business


Raymond J. Learsy

The current oil price of $52 per barrel reflects an increase of 400% from one decade ago. What else in your day to day experience has gone up that steeply in the past 10 years? Think about it.

Wall-E, Eve and Barack

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics


Patrick Takahashi

So what's the simple solution? Certain magnificent obsessions can best become reality if the U.S. Senate convenes in 2009 with 60 senators, meaning no filibuster.

Green Idealism, or Which Way the Wind Is Really Blowing

Graham Hill | Posted 04.15.2009 | Green


Graham Hill

None other than Time magazine is talking about the importance of green collar jobs to a rebuild of the economy, discussing some of the ideas author Van Jones outlines in his new book The Green-Collar Economy.

$500 Oil? Why Not $1,000? Does It Matter?

Andrew Winston | Posted 10.24.2008 | Business


Andrew Winston

So supply is a problem, but it's not actually the biggest one. The real story is demand. The growth of India and China is impossible to grasp and will drive prices of everything up and up.

Picky About the Pickens Plan

Christiana Wyly | Posted 10.23.2008 | Green


Christiana Wyly

"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."

National Clean Energy Summit: Business Leaders Encourage Cheap, Renewable Energy

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...

Culture Zohn: T. Boone and Me: Red Oil Man and Blue Boomer Girl Have Something in Common

Patricia Zohn | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green


Patricia Zohn

2008-08-01-pzohn.jpgBoone and I have something in common besides the fact that we are both interested in a Green solution this time, not Red or Blue: we have both reinvented ourselves a whole bunch.