T. Boone Pickens Testifies On Energy Security On Capitol Hill
Oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens testifies before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee about alternative energy plans for the United States on July 22, 2008 on Capitol Hill in Washington. After making billions of dollars as an oil speculator, Pickens wants to promote the use of American technology, including wind turbines, and alternative energy to reduce the U.S. dependency on foreign oil. (UPI Photo/Patrick D. McDermott)
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DALLAS, Nov. 10 (UPI) -- There is enough natural gas in the United States to supply the country with its energy needs for the next century, said energy advocate T. Boone Pickens.
DEL MAR, Calif., Sept. 24 (UPI) -- The wife of Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens said she is suing a California city over an order to prune plants on her back deck.
WASHINGTON, July 31 (UPI) -- U.S. Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., confronted T. Boone Pickens over the oil billionaire's financing of Swift Boat ads in the 2004 campaign, witnesses said.
HOLDENVILLE, Okla., July 30 (UPI) -- Billionaire T. Boone Pickens has returned a concrete slab bearing his childhood signature to the Oklahoma driveway from which it was taken.
HOLDENVILLE, Okla., July 23 (UPI) -- Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens said he took a slab of driveway concrete bearing his signature from an Oklahoma home for sentimental reasons.
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HOLDENVILLE, Okla., July 14 (UPI) -- An Oklahoma man who owns a house bearing the signature of T. Boone Pickens on its driveway said a crew working for the oil tycoon removed the concrete slab.
DALLAS, July 8 (UPI) -- Billionaire U.S. oilman T. Boone Pickens says he is putting aside plans to build the world's biggest wind turbine farm in the Texas Panhandle.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 (UPI) -- Energy entrepreneur T. Boone Pickens says he is seeking federal economic stimulus money to retrofit heavy trucks to run on natural gas.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- Oilman T. Boone Pickens said Thursday the United States should give the Treasury secretary funds for a financial sector bailout "and tell him to get it fixed."
