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Comment by Geoff Bailey on November 12, 2009 at 2:44pm

Michael,

FANTASTIC LTE! This is proof positive that LTE are a free and easy way to communicate our message. It may take 2, 3, maybe 4 attempts - but they do pay off!

If you ever need help with content, please never hesitate to contact me.

Geoff
Geoffrey@pickensplan.com

Comment by Michael R. Wimberly on November 12, 2009 at 2:09pm

Geoff Bailey gives good advice. I am pleased that my effort in writing to my local newspaper was successful. Most naysayers said Natural Gas will not provide enough power for big trucks. There is a lot of work to convince Joe Elbow Bender that the Pickens Plan is the right Plan for our Nation.
Paper: Houston Chronicle
Date: Thursday Oct 29, 2009
Section: B
Page: 9
Edition: 3 STAR


Weak dollar poses risks

The Chronicle's editorial “Dollar's daze” (Page B8, Thursday) accurately describes how a weak dollar adversely affects our economy by driving gasoline prices to $4 a gallon and further increasing our foreign balance of payments deficit. A weak dollar will spur U.S. exports, but this advantage will be short-lived because it increases the cost of all imported products, not just oil. This complicates our domestic and foreign policies by continuing the financial support of unfriendly foreign supplier-nations who want the dollar dumped for foreign exchange.

The only program in this recession capable of stopping the dollar decline while priming our economy is the Pickens Plan, aimed at converting all diesel trucks and buses to domestically produced natural gas. At the same time we must recognize the negative impact of large gasoline engines for personal use by imposing an impact fee to influence a conversion to smaller engines. These plans would preclude the need to increase the gasoline tax while virtually eliminating imported oil.

Let individuals decide how big an engine they need and use the impact fee to compensate for the lost gasoline tax. Both programs will cut U.S. oil consumption more than 50 percent, eliminate $150 billion in imported oil annually and have a significant “green” impact. These are real savings that will be annually reinvested as a stimulus to our domestic economy, not in the Middle East or Venezuela. Besides Canada, the U.S. is perhaps the only industrialized nation capable of energy independence. What are you willing to pay to save our nation's economy and our way of life?

MICHAEL R. WIMBERLY
Houston

Comment by Geoff Bailey on August 19, 2009 at 11:14am

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 April 2, 2009 at 10:59am

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 James Everitt on March 20, 2009 at 10:34am

In God We Trust - More Than A Motto?

In God We Trust: The Motto
One of the first found references of the motto “In God We Trust” is heard in the U.S. National Anthem, The Star-Spangled Banner. The song was written by Francis Scott Key in 1814 and later adopted as the national anthem. In the last stanza Key writes a variation of the phrase: “...And this be our motto: In God is our trust. And the Star Spangled Banner in triumph shall wave, O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” The words were shortened to In God We Trust and first applied to U.S. coins in 1864.

In God We Trust: The History
The U. S. Department of Treasury states “the motto, IN GOD WE TRUST, was placed on United States coins largely because of the increased religious sentiment existing during the Civil War. Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase received many appeals from devout persons throughout the country, urging that the United States recognize the Deity on United States coins.

From Treasury Department records, it appears that the first such appeal came in a letter dated November 13, 1861. It was written to Secretary Chase by Rev. M. R. Watkinson, Minister of the Gospel from Ridleyville, Pennsylvania. As a result, Secretary Chase instructed James Pollock, Director of the Mint at Philadelphia, to prepare a motto, in a letter dated November 20, 1861:

Dear Sir: No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins. You will cause a device to be prepared without unnecessary delay with a motto expressing in the fewest and tersest words possible this national recognition. It was found that the Act of Congress dated January 18, 1837, prescribed the mottoes and devices that should be placed upon the coins of the United States.”

Pollock suggested "Our Trust Is In God," "Our God And Our Country," "God And Our Country," and "God Our Trust." Chase picked "In God We Trust" to be used on some of the government's coins. The first time "In God We Trust" appeared on our coins was in 1864 on the new two cent coin, and by 1909 it was included on most the other coins. During the height of the cold war, on July 11, 1955, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed Public Law 140 making it mandatory that all coinage and paper currency display the motto.

In God We Trust: The Foundation
American history demonstrates repeatedly that the nation was founded on Christian principles and its founding fathers wished to acknowledge that fact all over Washington D.C. buildings, in official documents, and historical speeches. Less than a hundred years after its Declaration of Independence, In God We Trust was proclaimed on its coins. America is a free nation, and freedom of religion is still guaranteed in the Constitution’s First Amendment.

President Thomas Jefferson wrote, "The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time" and asked ‘Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are of God?’"

The Bible says:

"It is better to trust the LORD than to put confidence in man" (Psalm 118:8).
"He has put a new song in my mouth, praise unto our God; many shall see it, and fear and will trust in the LORD" (Psalm 40:3, NKJV).

"It is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord GOD, that I may declare all thy works" (Psalm 73:28 NKJV).

"The fear of man brings a snare: but whoever puts his trust in the LORD shall be safe" (Proverbs 29:25 NKJV).

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Comment by James Everitt on February 20, 2009 at 2:17pm

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From the desk of T. Boone Pickens

Army!

The battle for the stimulus package is over and – thanks to you – we were very successful on the wind side of the Pickens Plan.

Here is the list of items which are included in the stimulus package:

A 3-year Production Tax Credit (PTC) extension through the end of 2012

An option to elect a 30% Investment Tax Credit (ITC) in place of the PTC

An option to convert the Investment Tax Credit into a grant for projects placed in service in 2009, or 2010, or placed in service before 2013 provided construction begins in 2009 or 2010

A new $6 billion Department of Energy renewable energy and transmission loan guarantee program, which should fund around $60 billion in principal amount of guaranteed loans

Authority for the Western Area Power Administration to borrow up to $3.25 billion from the Treasury to build renewable transmission lines in the western United States, including western Texas

Did the New Energy Army have an impact?

Absolutely.

Last summer, when we started this effort, no one would have believed that 1.4 million Americans would join together to affect energy legislation in the Congress of the United States.

But last week alone, over a 3 day period, we generated over 60,000 emails to Members of the United States House and Senate urging their support.

You can like or dislike the stimulus package, and I’m not qualified enough to speak to the entire package or its economic prospects.

But I do know energy, and I know the aspects of the stimulus plan that address this subject are critical and beneficial.

But they are also a first step.

We’ve still got more work to do to end our dependence on foreign oil, especially on the natural gas side of the Pickens Plan.

I said on CNBC that the battle now shifts to the House and Senate Energy Committees to begin moving the country from imported gasoline and diesel to domestic natural gas.

I’ll be coming back to you in the next few days with a plan to have a serious impact on foreign oil.

Pat yourselves on the back. Take ten. Then get ready to saddle up and start again.

Thank you.

-Boone

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Comment by James Everitt on February 14, 2009 at 11:25am

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Grants.gov was established as a governmental resource named the E-Grants Initiative, part of the President's 2002 Fiscal Year Management Agenda to improve government services to the public.

The concept has its origins in the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act of 1999, also known as Public Law 106-107. Public Law 106-107 has since sunset and is now known as the Grants Policy Committee (GPC). For more information on the Grants Policy Committee, click here.

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Comment by James Everitt on February 11, 2009 at 11:56am

U.S. Financial Crisis: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

In 48 hours we will be delivering to the conferees a list of everyone who has emailed their Members of Congress in support of the Pickens Plan elements of H.R. 1. So it's important you email your Members of Congress today!

The United States is in the midst of a serious financial crisis. You can read full text of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on the Thomas web site from the Library of Congress.

This Act lays out a new plan to address the crisis and is currently being debated in the U.S. Congress.

It was passed by the House of Representatives on January 28, 2009, and by the Senate on February 10, 2009.

Before it can be presented to the President to sign into law, a conference committee (composed of members of Congress) needs to resolve the differences between the House and Senate versions of the Act.

The Act proposes unemployment and welfare expansion, tax cuts, and investment in infrastructure, healthcare, education, and energy.

Some of the goals of the Act are to:

Create 3 to 4 million jobs over the next two years.

Computerize every citizen's medical records in five years.

Double renewable energy generating capacity over three years.

Provide healthcare coverage for nearly 8.5 million Americans.

Enhance the security of 90 major ports.

Increase food stamp benefits for over 30 million Americans.

If the Act is passed, citizens will have the ability to see how the funds are spent at Recovery.Gov

Comment by Shari Greer on February 10, 2009 at 1:29pm

The boys in the utube video are awesome and right on target!!
Great show... great effort ya'll.

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