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Pushing forward with his plan to decrease America’s dependence on foreign oil, Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens is vying for stimulus money to help diesel-dependent truckers convert over to natural gas-powered engines. Pickens is pushing for a $28 billion pilot program that would convert 350,000 heavy-duty trucks over to running on liquefied natural gas, or LNG. He said this can be achieved th…