Pickens Plan District Group NM-02

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Welcome to the New Mexico 2nd Congressional District Group for the New Energy Army! If you live in NM-02, please join us to learn more about Pickens Plan events and activities taking place in our District.

Website: http://push.pickensplan.com/group/DistrictGroupNM02
Location: New Mexico
Members: 23
Latest Activity: Nov 2

NM-02 District Leaders

The Pickens Plan District Leader for NM-02 is Karl Mayr.

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Comment by Dani Lanz on November 2, 2009 at 2:11pm: Let’s get to 120 by 11/20/09

Army:

What a couple of weeks it’s been and I have lots to report and something very important to ask.

There’s a new Natural Gas Caucus in the U.S. House of Representatives which is headed by Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) and Rep. Dan Boren (D-OK). The more than 40 bi-partisan members of the caucus held a major hearing on Capitol Hill. The Natural Gas Caucus talked about how the development of America’s natural gas resources will help set America on a path to energy independence and create millions of new jobs. It was a great event and an important message to get out there.

But here’s the really important part.

We’ve got just under 100 cosponsors of the NAT GAS Act (H.R. 1835) in the House—and that’s great—but I think we can educate more Members of Congress, build on that support and do a lot more.

Click here to email your Member of Congress and ask them to become a cosponsor of the NAT GAS Act.

I think we can get at least another 20+ cosponsors in the coming weeks so I’m calling on every member of the Army to reach out to their Member of Congress right now so that we can get to at least 120 sponsors by November 20th. I’m calling it 120 by 11-20.

I’m going to be working the phones and I need you to as well. Army, we can get this done and show Congress that it’s time to end our dependence on foreign oil.

Click here to email your Member of Congress and ask them to become a cosponsor of the NAT GAS Act.

Stay tuned because we’re going to post regular updates about our progress and highlight those members who are working to get us off foreign oil.

Let’s keep the pressure on!

– Boone

P.S. We recently ran an ad in the news publications which cover Capitol Hill. Click here to view the short video we did about this really unique ad. It’s getting people’s attention.

Comment by Dani Lanz on October 13, 2009 at 9:56am

Comment by Dani Lanz on October 7, 2009 at 1:19pm: Your Editorial Letters are Working--Keep it Up!

Comment by Dani Lanz on September 25, 2009 at 7:00pm: Natural Gas is the Way to Go!

Comment by Dani Lanz on September 21, 2009 at 2:09pm: T. Boone Pickens had an op-ed essay in the Indianapolis Star which reminded Hoosiers that, although high oil prices have dropped off their radar screen “the total amount of U.S. dollars we ship overseas to fund our oil imports is still staggering.” It's easy to write on and submit it to your local paper:

Boone wrote:

If oil stays at the OPEC target of $75 a barrel, we will export nearly $300 billion — a third of $1 trillion that could, and should, be cycling through the American economy instead of the economies of the Middle East, North Africa and South America.

Seventy percent of the oil we import is used as a transportation fuel as gasoline or diesel. Batteries and fuel cells are not ready for widespread use, Boone said, but he wrote:

We have a domestic fuel that can replace imported oil. It is natural gas, and we have a lot of it. According to a recent study we have 2,000 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, enough to last for 118 years.

It’s not all about the money. Jobs are a big part of the need to stop depending on imported oil.

The United States should look for every possible way to create more domestic jobs. Jump-starting a natural gas vehicle sector would help do that. From manufacturing, to refitting, to maintaining vehicles, to increased drilling (and providing the tools to do that) and upgrading the nation’s distribution system would produce tens of thousands of jobs starting within weeks, not years.

Comment by Dani Lanz on September 18, 2009 at 7:26am: Boone reports August Oil Numbers--

Comment by Dani Lanz on September 2, 2009 at 8:38am: Pickens Plan latest commercial. Watch it now and pass it on!

Comment by Dani Lanz on August 28, 2009 at 5:24pm: The July Foreign Oil Numbers are incredible! Your elected officials need to hear from you to stop this inexcusable transfer of wealth.

Comment by Dani Lanz on August 14, 2009 at 7:28pm

Comment by Karl Mayr on July 16, 2009 at 2:37pm: Hi NM -02 Pickens People,

Pickens People are being heard across American, because we are a private venture, who have our own interests at heart. How else could 1.6M people send one voice to Washington, and to our foriegn oil suppliers.

The Overseas Oil Suppliers are not really concerned what we do to supply our energy needs. They can regulate the oil prices, but we are going to have our own "energy price index" and we can stabalize the "dollar", since more dollars will stay in America for you and your family.

The Plan is working, it will continue to work, and more peoplw are going to work in the prosperous Alternative Energy and Energy Conservation Industries. Each of you has a constructive choices to improve our economy, and we must get there as soon as possible.

Karl Mayr
Tularosa, New Mexico