Pickens Featured in Tulsa World

Boone Pickens likes to make money - and he sure likes giving it away. That’s one of the many takeaways readers get from an interview given by Pickens just days before his 85th birthday that was published in Monday’s Tulsa World. Pickens says he has donated almost as much as he’s now worth, including $525 million [...]

Tell your state legislators to support SB519 for Oklahoma’s energy future

Senate Bill 519 (SB 519), authored by Senator Rob Standridge and Representative David Derby, makes critical updates to Oklahoma’s motor fuel tax law to create an environment that promotes natural gas vehicle (NGV) adoption and investment in refueling infrastructure. Unfortunately Oklahoma currently taxes domestic liquefied natural gas (LNG) almost twice as much as foreign diesel. Furthermore, [...]

U.S. Spends $1 Billion a Day on Imported Oil in April

The oil import numbers are in for April. As usual, the news is anything but good. As of last month, the average price has settled in comfortably above a floor of $100 per barrel. According to figures just released, $102.25 was the average price per barrel of oil imported to the U.S. Meanwhile, the cost of a [...]

More Natural Gas Coming to Kansas City

The Kansas City Star reports that the Paris of the Plains is about to go from one natural-gas filling station to many. For years, Kansas Gas Service has operated the only place in the area where the public could fill up a vehicle powered by compressed natural gas and take advantage of a fuel that burns [...]

Rethinking Reputation

My father told me that a fool with a plan can outsmart a genius with no plan any day. I live by those words, and they are why we have been able to accomplish as much as we have with the Pickens Plan. Come to find out two writers named Fraser Seitel (Co-Founder and Managing [...]