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At 12:39pm on March 18, 2009, David Ruggles said…
Dear Mr. Pickens,

I'm a born and raised Okie from B'ville, schooled at OSU and living in Las Vegas. I'm also a 38 year lifer in the auto business. I consult with dealers across the U.S. and in Japan. It seems to me that there needs to be an alliance between auto dealers and any serious CNG initiative for converting gasoline vehicles to flex fuel/CNG vehicles. Dealers would be ideal for refueling stations as they have an ongoing desire to drive traffic to their facilities, which has been degraded due to the economy and the Internet. They already have extensive lobbying capabilities. They have the capability to do the conversions. They are looking for new revenue sources. Need I say more?

A group of us have been discussing ideas on how to get this started. We 'd welcome the opportunity to discuss our ideas with you or anyone you designate. We really think there is significant opportunity associated with getting dealers involved in an effort to overcome enertia! We just need to get the "pump primed!

Thanks for all your good work! Go Cowboys!

David Ruggles
Advanced Concepts & Techniques
312.925.1863
ruggles@msn.com
At 10:14am on March 16, 2009, Mike Anthony Fernald Sr. said…
RE: 30 minute conference calls with District Leaders to talk about the Virtual March.

March 17 at 9 am CDT
March 18 at 9 am CDT


"Dear Mr. Pickens,

A question and a comment:

Question: What is the single largest obstacle to implementing
The Pickens Plan?

Comment: I believe that "Big Oil" represents the most substantial
threat to achieving our energy goals. I think a more collaborative
approach would be more effective than a combative one. If allowed,
I think they would become excellent willing partners in mutual success.
Their massive infrastructures provide a basis for building the New
Energy Economy and represent substantial existing investments that can be leveraged. The production systems are fully developed from raw resources to consumer access. Why reinvent the wheel? I feel certain that, when offered the chance, they will select cooperation over extinction. I believe the most forward thinker in the space is British Petroleum. They seem to "get it".



Christopher P. Rabalais DL TX-02
Humble (Houston), Texas"
At 5:32pm on March 14, 2009, Armando Telles said…
For the Pickens Plan Team,
On April 22th at Palomar College in San Marcos, CA we will be hosting an Earth Day event which is open to the public. As a 2-yr college to 33,000+ students, as well as being a Hispanic Learning Institution (HSI), this is an opportunity to take advantage of the exposure for our Pickens Plan efforts. Tables, chairs and location will be provided and secured for us. I do recommend bringing canopies for shade, but they're not required. For further information, don't hesitate to contact me.

Enthusiastically,
Armando Telles
CA-49 District Leader
tellesaj2@yahoo.com
916) 230-1513
At 7:18am on March 14, 2009, Mike Anthony Fernald Sr. said…
Dear Mr. Pickens

Im doing the best I can.
My Best Idea yet :o}
What di you think?

The Harlem Globetrotters are coming to the Portland Civic Center on the 22 next Sunday,

I Have a PLAN:
To stand out in front of the Civic Center in my Clown Suit and Hand out Free Pickens Plan T Shirts and encourage folks to sign up for the Virtual March April 1-3, I know the Civic Center holds a a Lot of people. What better way to Reach them Give them a FREE TB Pickens T Shirt.

I need Pickens Plan T shirt Sponsors, Can any one Help? I will do my best with what I have But I need all of you so if you can do something Please do!!

Please do not send any Money.
All I need is a few hundred T Shirts.
Can we count on you to send a FEW :O}

Please Forward this to your Network of Friends.

Send to:
T.B. Pickens C/O Mike Anthony
6 Ginger Lane
Saco Me 04072
207-229-8240

Thank you for all you do :o}
Mike
At 6:43am on March 14, 2009, Ulysses "ULY" Labilles said…
Without Our Initiative, Support and Follow-Through

The practicality of a simple initiative coming from us to push our leaders to do the right thing is as practical as a Novocain therapy on easing the pain of a Trigeminal Neuralgia. A green initiative such as the Pickens Plan or any imagination from our engineers and green entrepreneurs will give us an initial fix to pacify our anguish with the present economic tic douloureux. One thing we do not have is time. We do not have the time just to sit around and wait for our leaders to do something, wait for our leaders to pick us up. The cost of not doing anything is catastrophic. The initiative should start from us, and not from Washington. Otherwise, without our push and our initiative, the imaginations of our scientists and our entrepreneurial spirit are nothing but dust in the wind. Our anguish will just be a drop of water in an endless sea, our hopes will just crumble to the ground, our cry will just be an old song, and all we are is just dust in the wind. I could almost feel my heart thumping while I use the poetic words of Kerry Livgren of the group Kansas to describe the ramification of not answering the call of urgency. Now is the time for us to take charge of our future, push to our leaders the importance of the “cap and trade”.

Gore vs. Pickens: who got the right stuff? Environmentalism and Green Capitalism could best describe the March 9th Memnosyne Foundation "Energy Independence: Pickens Plan vs. Gore Challenge" Leadership Dialogue. Conversation Catalysts"-Geoffrey Bailey, former White House intern, Regional Leader - New Energy Army/Pickens Plan and Todd Howard, President of T. Howard & Associates and graduate of Al Gore's "The Climate Project” framed the two plans to kick off the dialogue. The third in a 3-event Environmental Leadership Dialogue Series, facilitated by Orbits of Influence –was truly a powerful and engaging experience, bringing together some of the best minds and strongest advocates to compare and contrast the two prominent U.S. Energy Independence plans (one – the Pickens Plan – based right here in Texas!) and to address how best to ensure sustainable energy and the national security issues for our region and nation, while protecting our natural resources and sparking innovation to leverage new alternative energy sources and the economic boom they represent. Al Gore, former U.S. vice president, a Nobel Prize-winning crusader challenges the U.S. to produce all of its electricity from renewable sources in 10 years to combat climate change. T. Boone Pickens, a Texas Billionaire, answer the challenge for a massive switch to natural gas as a transportation fuel and a dramatic increase in wind power, building the largest wind farm in the world. So who’s right? It is clear that there is much that these two men agree on. Gore and Pickens along with former President Bill Clinton and other prominent leaders on alternative energy emphasizes the importance of the continuance of a new green revolution during the February 23rd “National Clean Energy Project Summit” in Washington DC. The summit focused on the modernization and expansion of the electrical grid, integrating energy efficiency and increasing transmission capacity for renewable energy-a green approach on reducing our nation’s dependence on foreign oil by examining short and long term solutions to replace foreign oil with domestic resources to fuel vehicles and trucks, including natural gas. The energy system of the future will tie efficiency and renewable energy together. The bundling of efficiency and renewable energy together will not be feasible without the unique alignment of an environmentalist visions like Al Gore’s, the imaginations of scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs, and the risks of capitalists has to take in the present unstable economic environment. What is the difference between entrepreneurs and capitalists? The entrepreneurs are the athletes and the capitalists are the coaches. The coaches train and motivate their teams and choose which athletes get to play, and help them create the plays and the plans to win. The beginning of the greatest story of this century is now, and the success of our initiative relies to our determination. Our determination will then fuel others to join our fight, and together we will prevail as a nation of leaders, leaders who will make this country great again, leaders who will make this earth of ours, a green planet for the future generation.

On April 1st to 3rd, the Pickens Plan will initiate a Virtual March on Washington. The Pickens Plan team will utilize the size and unique capabilities of the New Green Energy Army to have an enormous impact on the White House and Congress. The Army will focus its energy for three days on e-mails, calls and faxes to every Member of Congress. The success of this event will prove that advances in communication technology could bridge our differences, expanding human interconnectedness to virtually test the possibility of ideological re-wiring of America. The Virtual March will strengthen our true power to initiate change, making way to the evolution of our common conviction not as black, brown, white, straight or gay, Christians or not, but us one nation, one body, one soul to create a better future for the country and the rest of the world. Well, some will say that achieving a unified comprehensive vision for the future of America is impossible because each and every one of us are raised in different ethnic and religious values, if the majority will foster such mentality then all of our efforts to renew America is nothing but dust in the wind. An advice from a friend in Alabama will be something that I will always remember. “Confidence will give my generation and the next generation a special kind of courage to strike out in new directions and still believe that the future will be at least as bright as the past ever was”. Personally, I got my confidence and my inspiration when America embraced the need for change and elected the First Black President of the United States. Without embracing change, in just a blink of our eyes, our hope, our dreams and everything we started will be just dust in the wind. With out our initiative to push any plan like the Pickens Plan to answer the call of the Gore Challenge, with out the support of our leaders who are willing to risk their political careers to do what is right for the future, with out the much needed inter-agency cooperation to build a new smart energy grid needed for our sustainability survival-the new genre of job opportunities that depends upon the renewal of our energy infrastructures will be nothing but dust in the wind.


At 9:11pm on March 10, 2009, Ryan Jones said…
Dear Mr. Pickens,

Bring the Boone Express to Idaho State University. Our programs in the College of Technology train the labor force for gas pipelines, power generation, welding, electronics, ect. We are the labor force with the hands on, hard skills to build the Pickens Plan infrastructure. Pocatello is a blue collar, hard working town. With incoming solar and wind manufactures, Pocatello is positioned to help move this country towards energy independence. Again, bring out the Boone Express and check us out!

Sincerely,

Ryan Jones
District Leader ID-2
At 7:11pm on March 10, 2009, Patrick Llewellyn said…
T Boone. I would like to invite you to join the Las Vegas Energy & Light Group. Hope you can make it. Thank you, patrick
At 4:54pm on March 10, 2009, JD Polk said…
Why do you even have a page?
you never answer..... And you never accept friendship...
Oh and by the way....
YOU ARE DEAD WRONG ABOUT A ELECTRIC MOTOR CAN'T RUN AN 18
WHEELER….WHAT DO YOU THINK POWERS CSX RAILWAYS ENGINES
ONE GALLON OF DIESEL GOES 430MILES WHY?
IT’S AN ELECTRIC MOTOR PULLING ALL THAT WEIGHT…..
At 6:53am on March 9, 2009, Ryan Jones said…
Dear Mr. Pickens,

Bring the Boone Express to Idaho State University. Our programs in the College of Technology train the labor force for gas pipelines, power generation, welding, electronics, ect. We are the labor force with the hands on, hard skills to build the Pickens Plan infrastructure. Pocatello is a blue collar, hard working town. With incoming solar and wind manufactures, Pocatello is positioned to help move this country towards energy independence. Again, bring out the Boone Express and check us out!

Sincerely,

Ryan Jones
District Leader ID-2
At 6:25am on March 9, 2009, Mike Anthony Fernald Sr. said…
Dear Mr. Pickens

Invite
Please try.
We are working hard.

The RI Pickens Plan Forum on Alternative and Renewable Energy
Wednesday March 11,2009
Providence City Hall Room 302
7:00pm-9:pm

Speakers:
Kim Anderson -PP Congressional
District Leader for RI-01 and RI-02.
Andrew Dzykewicz- Commisioner of RI
Energry Resources
Dave Eldredge- Owner of RI Drilling and
Blasting
John Rupp- Chairman of the Board
RIPTA/ Assit Gen Counsel Textron
Julian Dash - Director of RIEDC
Renewable Energies Fund
John Tabor Jacobson- Developer of
energy effcient buildings/ President
of RI chapter of Northeast
Susatinble Energy Association

Topics:
1.Overview of Pickens Plan
2. Wind energy in RI
3.Geo Thermal energy
4.RIPTA and Natural Gas Buses
5.RI Renewable Energies Fund /
funding electricity producing projects
6. Policies/ incentives to make Public
and Private Buildings more energy
efficient

Kim Anderson
Mike
At 8:08am on March 8, 2009, Paul D. Zulas said…
Hello...it's good to be here. I am looking for change in the world and change for myself as I am currently unemployed. Do you have any resources that might steer me in the right direction?
At 2:39pm on March 7, 2009, Shaniqua Latham said…
Mr Piken i exited to be her.
thak u fo helpin Mr pedeneltc Barak to git us cars an gas an hoses. yu nos whits dun blaks rong. Thanku fo helpin pa us back. yu Has lot of monys to help mak thigs rit. yo is sellin lots of yur oil to give mo to us blkaks . my kids gona git bette lifes cas of whits that nos yu dun rong an is gona pay mo tax for are blak presdet to give us.
At 8:33am on March 7, 2009, Henry Schlatman said…
Mr. Boone,
Thanks for letting me know about the new Renewable Energy Bill introduced by enator Reid. For why I am glad to see Congress and the American Barons taking their roles seriously I worry that more help is needed if America is going to see a new National Power Grid in the next 10 years. So let me ask you how does the Pickens Army get the Railroad Barons of America to join the cause?

For I do believe that once the government and railroad barons realize that they can capture the short trip passenger market and feight between cities with a network of high speed electric trains. It would only be a matter of time before someone in Washington would see that America could build a National Power Grid by running a cable along side the rails.

Just an Idea; however, I do see were high speed passenger and frieght trains could help America grow in the 21st Century.
At 8:02am on March 6, 2009, Tim Heming said…
Why just wind power? I beleive in wind power and what your plan is about, but why not incorporate solar power into the plan? A combination of wind and solar farm would offset each other, and provide a power source for many households. I live in Michigan, and things are not good here, we need jobs!!! We have a workforce of highly trained Union Carpenters and Electricians sitting idle right now because of job outsourcing and economic downturn. If the funding thru the stimulus bill were available for creating a wind/solar power structure in Michigan, we have carpenters/electricians allready qualified to install wind turbines, and PV solar panel grids. Governor Granholm has started a no worker left behind program to train workers in a new field, such as wind power technician. I have talked with members of the Detroit Area Apprenticeship Program, about including this as part of a course of study.
The tools to accomplish your goal for ridding America's dependence on oil, are there ( A qualified willing workforce of Carpenters/Electricians) you just have to tell us what to do.

Thanks for you valuable time, sincerely
Tim Heming, Carpenter, Former Marine
At 6:49am on March 6, 2009, Ryan Jones said…
Dear Mr. Pickens,

Bring the Boone Express to Idaho State University. Our programs in the College of Technology train the labor force for gas pipelines, power generation, welding, electronics, ect. We are the labor force with the hands on, hard skills to build the Pickens Plan infrastructure. Pocatello is a blue collar, hard working town. With incoming solar and wind manufactures Pocatello is positioned to help move this country towards energy independence. Again, bring out the Boone Express and check us out!

Sincerely,

Ryan Jones
District Leader ID-2
At 7:56am on March 5, 2009, mark weisser said…

At 8:10pm on March 4, 2009, paul renzo said…
i would like to know how to work for you
At 6:07pm on March 4, 2009, nathaniel yancy said…
Hello Mr.Pickens i have some isometric drawing for wind power sources that are put on your home . I would like to talk to you and hopefully show you this
i have had this for about 3 years and i know how to build it .well i just would like to talk to you if you like and i can tell you about this .


thank you very much nathaniel yancy
At 3:40pm on March 4, 2009, Ryan Jones said…
Dear Mr. Pickens,

Bring the Boone Express to Idaho State University. Our programs in the College of Technology train the labor force for gas pipelines, power generation, welding, etc. We are the labor force with the hands on, hard skills to build the Pickens Plan infrastructure. Pocatello is a blue collar, hard working town. With incoming solar and wind manufactures Pocatello is positioned to help move this country towards energy independence. Again, bring out the Boone Express and check us out!

Sincerely,

Ryan Jones

District Leader ID-2
At 8:32pm on March 3, 2009, Ulysses "ULY" Labilles said…
The Youth Director of my Facebook group Inno4Green Initiative just joined us and ready to push the Pickens Plan.
http://pickensplan.ning.com/profile/KaylaFatih

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