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Comment by Geoff Bailey on October 27, 2009 at 10:37pm

Comment by Geoff Bailey on October 9, 2009 at 9:15am

Please come to a Town Hall meeting with T. Boone Pickens at his alma mater, Oklahoma State University, Thursday, October 29th. Boone will discuss the Pickens Plan and take questions from the audience at the beautiful Gallagher-Iba arena.

Doors Open at 2:30 and the Town Hall begins promptly at 3:30. No RSVP is required. Admission is free.

For a map of Oklahoma State, please click here.

Comment by charles dunning sanger on September 2, 2009 at 2:01pm

i will be putting much with the editors
dunning

Comment by Geoff Bailey on August 19, 2009 at 3:38pm

Letters to the editor are some of the most effective ways of communication today! Op-Eds and local LTE are terrific marketing tools that allow you to convey your thoughts and ideas to your friends, family and neighbors. They are fun, make an impact and, best of all, FREE!

Help Boone spread his message of ending our dependence on foreign oil.

Do you want to have a letter to the editor you write published in your local newspaper? If so, message me on Push or email me at Geoffrey@pickensplan.com and I can help you come up with a LTE of your own.

It's the little effort we make today that makes the big difference tomorrow!

Geoff
Geoffrey@pickensplan.com

Comment by Geoff Bailey on May 19, 2009 at 9:29am

Rand Elliott denies he’s motivated by greed, but he admitted that following the economic crash in September, he’s been very motivated by fear.

Speaking to the Commercial Real Estate Council on Thursday, Elliott recalled how the start of the oil bust in 1983 forced him to trim his staff from 22 to four in one day. That memory, fear of what’s to come, and a design contest sponsored by Azure magazine all combined to inspire Elliott to dream up a project that drew gasps from developers and realtors gathered to hear his presentation of Turbinomic, a tower designed to generate its own power through a mix of solar and wind power.

"I didn’t win (the contest),” Elliott said. "But something more important, something incredible happened as a result of this exploration. The fear made me discover something that is always around us — the Oklahoma wind. And this idea could only happen in Oklahoma, not New York.”

To read more, please click here.

Comment by Geoff Bailey on April 5, 2009 at 6:59pm

YOU DID IT!

Because of YOUR calls, faxes and emails, Senator Inhofe signed the Pickens Pledge! We got his signed pledge on Friday! GREAT job! This is proof positive that our efforts really do make a difference in Washington. Let Senator Inhofe know that you appreciate his leadership!

Now we focus our attention on Senator Coburn. Boone wanted me to tell you all how proud he is of your hard work!

Geoff

Comment by Mary Putnam on April 3, 2009 at 9:36am

America needs a comprehensive energy plan and we are looking to our leaders in Washington to help provide one.

To make this work, we have to move in three areas.
Part 1: Electric Grid
Part 2: National Renewable Electricity Standard
Part 3: Green Bank - I am against this one as it is drafted today

Part one is legislation that will establish a national electric transmission grid. Giving FERC same authority as it has for siting gas lines.

Part two is an achievable national Renewable Electricity Standard (RES) that would include tradable renewable energy credits as part of the transmission and grid effort. A national RES should be phased in as transmission becomes available to bring power from renewable sources to multi-state regions. Having the government do this makes it easier for generators and power companies. I would expect they should include urban generators in the mix, not merely commercial generators.

Oklahoma does not currently have an RES, we need one. But we dont need a federal agency dictating the rate a generator can sell at. Example, Oklahoma could make the energy cheaper in state than out of state. The constitution set governance of State production under the states, not the federal government.

Part three is an Energy Bank. Congressman Chris Van Hollen has introduced the Green Bank Act of 2009 as of March 25, 2009. This is not the Energy Bonds we strategized at Pickens Plan. This is the creation of a Bank wholly owned by the US Government, funded at 10 billion. The Board of Directors are the Presidents cabinet members. Loans can be made to any energy method that reduces C02, this would include "Clean Coal", Nuclear, new generation Bio Fuels, new methods of processing petroleum. These are not renewable energy. Once this bank is established, the government will have set a precedent for nationalizing banks.

The American people are looking for leadership in making a long-term commitment to renewable energy.

Kindest Regards
Mary Putnam

Comment by Geoff Bailey on April 2, 2009 at 11:42am

VIRTUAL MARCH DAY 2 - Boone Needs YOU

The Department of Energy has released the oil import figures for the month of March 2009. The data shows we imported 386 barrels at a cost of $18 billion. While we are importing less oil because of the recession, the percentage of oil we are importing is remaining disappointingly stable. The March numbers show we imported 65% percent of the oil we used.

Over the past 12 months, America has had to import nearly two-thirds of the oil we need. In 2008 that amounted to $475 billion dollars. Keep in mind, this is not a one-time payment like a stimulus package or a bail-out bill. This is an annual cost of over $400 billion per year.

CLICK HERE TO EMAIL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TODAY AND ASK THEM TO TAKE ACTION TO REDUCE OUR DEPENDENCY ON FOREIGN OIL.

Geoff

Comment by Geoff Bailey on April 1, 2009 at 1:26pm

As you know, today is the start of the Pickens Plan Virtual March on Washington. I included some messages below that you should feel free to use when trying to get friends and family to participate.

This is going to be my Facebook status over the next three days:

“Boone Pickens, Rock the Vote and I urged policy makers to pass energy legislation. You can too: http://tinyurl.com/c6b53s”

This is what I emailed my friends, family and neighbors – and then sent to all of my Facebook friends:

“Join me, Boone Pickens and Rock the Vote in telling Congress and the President: Help improve our environment, economy & bring us toward energy independence by passing energy legislation now! Be heard today! http://tinyurl.com/c6b53s”

April 1-3 is going to be an exciting time for the Pickens Plan and everyone involved! We have over 4.5 million people participating in this March with us. The more folks who contact Congress, the more impact we have on the debate.

For the first time in our nation’s history, we have millions of people converging on Washington, speaking with a unified voice, and demanding a viable, sustainable energy policy that ends our dependence on foreign oil.

It’s Go Time! Contact your member of Congress today!

Boone is counting on you. Visit http://www.pickensplan.com/virtualmarch/ today and let your voice be heard!

Geoff
Geoffrey@pickensplan.com

Comment by Ray Barton on March 8, 2009 at 9:05pm

Oklahoma has a vested interest in the production and sale of natural gas. It is in all of our interests to promote this for the time being. As a simple starter our state can use the taxes. The state of Alaska's oil industry pays enough state taxes that the citizens receive rebates. Wouldn't it be wonderful for Oklahoma to be in that place? It is in the realm of possibility in the short term.

Our economic problems are genuine and critical. On of the better solutions to our economic problems is to provide our own energy. Each "energy crisis" has resulted in an economic downturn. The great genius of John D. Rockefeller was that he stabilized the price of oil. It is true that he created a monoply to do it, but nevertheless it stabilized. Was that a precondition to today's oil industry?

I propose that we use our most powerful institution to stabilze prices. We suffer too much to do otherwise. I propose that we place a floor under the price of energy. It probably should be a sliding scale tax.

What is happening is that a foreign cartel, OPEC, is manipulating us. Should we let this continue? The answer is simple. No.

The tumbling price of oil means that Oklahoma is stacking her oil rigs. At just the moment when we need more production to free us from foreigners we are becoming more vulnerable. Trained oil people go elsewhere for work and never return to the oil business because it is unstable. It really is unstable. That needs to be fixed.

Natural gas exploration also drops to zero. The price of all energy seems to fluctuate with that of oil. We probably need a more technologically sophisticated basis for an energy price floor than simply oil prices. I suspect we will want to do it on wattage and calculated wattage equivalents. At some point in the future we are going to cease to utilize carbon as an energy source.

The point is simple. Stable energy prices are necessary to promote natural gas and concomitantly CNG. If Oklahoma's delegation in Washington wants to do something for Oklahoma and the nation, this is where they will look. They do share the bully pulpit. They should not waste it on the trivia of petty politics.


Now we come to the Pickens plan. It is a really good first step to energy independence. It is the right thing for right now. It is one of many steps toward full energy independence. In the forties and fifties we were net exporters.

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