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By Reuters HOUSTON (Reuters) - You've seen T. Boone Pickens on "Larry King Live," watched his commercials exalting the "Pickens Plan" to build windmills and listened to him warn of a looming energy crisis. Now the Texas oil tycoon shares hints at how you can attain a modest measure of his success - which includes a 68,000-acre ranch teeming with quail and deer and a Gulfstream 550 jet - and head off an energy crisis while you're at it. In his new book, "The First Billion Is the Hardest"...

By Anonymous As they have throughout history, high oil prices are evoking calls for new patterns of energy supply and use. The response comes naturally to markets and politics, unleashing the creative potential those systems represent. If not held in check, though, it also gives way easily to costly excess. High oil prices help new energy forms migrate from the economic margin into the market. Movement of this type is evident and, for a world with an energy appetite outgrowing its supply...

Today T. Boone Pickens released the following letter sent to NBC Universal CEO and President Jeff Zucker, describing his disappointment in the network's decision not to run the latest Pickens Plan ad, entitled "Iran," one in a series of non-partisan ads Mr. Pickens has developed to raise awareness among Americans of the need to lessen our $700 billion annual dependence on foreign oil. The 15 second advertisement, which has been approved by every other major broadcast and cable news network,...

By John G. Edwards By JOHN G. EDWARDS REVIEW-JOURNAL Clean energy will reduce greenhouse gases, protect the environment, create jobs and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil. But the federal government needs to lead the way. That's the message from Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D- Nev., and a parade of public and business leaders speaking to 750 attendees at Tuesday's National Clean Energy Summit at the Cox Pavilion at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. "The energy situation can't...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi recently called congressional Republicans who want up-or-down drilling votes "hand maidens of the oil companies." Let's call Pelosi what she is: House girl of the Big Wind boondogglers. Though she seemingly backtracked on labeling drilling a "hoax" this week, Pelosi refuses to consider GOP energy proposals that don't include massive government subsidies for so-called eco- alternatives that have never panned out. \ Which brings us to Madame Speaker's 2007...

By Steve Tetreault By STEVE TETREAULT stephens washington bureau WASHINGTON - T. Boone Pickens, the billionaire Texas oilman and financier, predicted Friday that his ambitious plan to refocus U.S. energy policy on alternatives such as wind and natural gas soon will become a major issue for the presidential candidates. "Our dependence on foreign oil has got to change," Pickens said in a conference call. "The outflow of $700 billion a year (to oil exporting nations), we can't afford that....

By JEFF POSTELWAIT A standing-room-only crowd of 800 hears the oilman's energy plans. MCALESTER -- The lack of leadership in Washington, combined with the end of cheap gasoline, has put the United States in an energy situation it must get out of, veteran oilman Boone Pickens said here Wednesday. Speaking to a standing-room-only crowd of 800 people, the billionaire and native Oklahoman said the problem is clear enough -- dependence on foreign oil. Yet, the executive contended that until...

By JEFF POSTELWAIT The oilman says people are eager for energy independence. Boone Pickens believes he's on to something. At one of the recent town hall meetings the oil and gas billionaire hosted to discuss his Pickens Plan energy proposal, Pickens said the response from the crowd has him convinced that people are ready for something different. At a town hall in Topeka, Kan., Pickens said the crowd was standing-room only, with hundreds standing outside in 103-degree heat to listen to...

By JEFF POSTELWAIT Boone Pickens, native Oklahoman and 50-year veteran of the oil and gas business, will speak Wednesday in McAlester about his Pickens Plan for U.S. energy independence. The gathering marks the third town hall-style meeting Pickens is holding across the Midwest, which he calls the "wind belt," to focus on the region's potential for generating more power from wind turbines. Jay Rosser, vice president of the Pickens-controlled BP Capital fund and a spokesman for the...

Armed with windfarm research provided by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas), representatives from the Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) and the Laborers-Employers Cooperation and Education Trust (LECET) met with representatives from leading windfarm constructor White Construction Incorporated (Clinton, Indiana) to explore the possibility of working together. The union representatives showed White Construction data on more than 200 windfarm projects in the...