T. Boone Pickens

DENVER, Oct. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- A lunch with Warren Buffet was just auctioned off at $2.1 million for charity. But according to Eric O'Keefe, editor of The Land Report, sitting down for a one-on-two lunch with T. Boone Pickens and Ted Turner, two pioneering entrepreneurs, was priceless. Pickens is featured on the new Fall cover of the magazine, where he reveals in depth his highly publicized The Pickens Plan, including plans to build a $10 ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- More than one million Americans have joined T. Boone Pickens and his Pickens Army in their fight to reduce this country's dependence on foreign oil. The Pickens Army reached its goal of one million members in just three months. "In less than a month, the next President of the United States will be elected. The million people who have joined the Pickens Army are sending a strong message to the candidates that America cannot continue on this path of spending as much as $700 billion a ...

Environmental, taxpayer, consumer, business and labor groups gather in Sacramento today to launch campaign to defeat oil tycoon's "$10 billion boondoggle" SACRAMENTO, Calif., Oct. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A diverse coalition of organizations - representing nearly every side of every issue on the political spectrum - gathered in Sacramento today to launch the campaign to defeat Proposition 10 -Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Picken's $10 billion money grab. Prop 10 is a measure on the November California ballot that calls for $5 billion in state bonds to primarily subsidize purchasers of natural gas powered trucks, along with modest investments in renewable energy development. T. Boone Pickens' Clean Energy Fuels Corporation wrote Prop 10 and has already donated nearly $8 million to the "Yes" campaign. Bond payments would cost California ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- A national survey of more than 1,000 likely voters released by The Tarrance Group and Lake Research Partners found overwhelming support for the Pickens Plan. After hearing a brief description of the Plan, 84% of respondents favored its approach to cut down oil imports from their current 70% level. The likely voters surveyed also expressed a strong belief that the nation is facing an energy crisis. Fully 92 percent of those surveyed believe we are already in, or are heading into, an energy crisis. But, those surveyed were skeptical of Congress or the new Administration in Washington to pass legislation supporting the plan next year. About 50% said that they had "very little confidence" or "no confidence at all" to get that done. "As Americans watched and listened attentively to the discussion between the candidates last night, they heard a lot of talk about energy, but no ...

PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The T. Boone Pickens Foundation has awarded Big Brothers Big Sisters of America a five-year $3 million grant that will provide professionally supported mentoring services to many more children of deployed military. With more than 700,000 American children having at least one parent deployed with the U.S. Military, the grant could not be more timely and necessary. "This generous gift will profoundly improve the ...