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Fact of the Day - March 11, 2009 »

T. Boone Pickens Statement on AT&T’s Decision to Upgrade 8,000 Fleet Vehicles to Run on Natural Gas

Upgrade will take place over the next five years

Dallas, TX, March 11, 2009 – T. Boone Pickens offered the following statement today supporting AT&T’s decision to upgrade 8,000 of its fleet vehicles to run on natural gas over the next five years:

“I have long believed that reducing our dependence on foreign oil and securing America’s energy future requires more than action in Washington, but strong leadership from the private sector. AT&T’s decision today to upgrade 8,000 of its fleet vehicles to run on natural gas is a demonstration of real American corporate leadership that will be good for their bottom line, the environment and the country.  AT&T recognizes that our reliance on foreign oil is one of the greatest threats to our national security—hopefully others will follow their lead.

“One of America’s largest companies has studied the issue and is making a change.  This action should send a strong signal to other companies and to our leaders in Washington that not only is switching to natural gas vehicles the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do. Smart American companies can be green and profitable and they don’t have to trade one for the other. AT&T is to be commended for its efforts and the example they are setting for the rest of the country.

“With Congress considering energy legislation in the coming days and months, I am continuing my call to implement a real national energy policy that will reduce our dependence on foreign oil through natural gas in our transportation system and rebuild our energy grid to tap into renewable sources of energy like wind and solar. This effort will create jobs, will make the nation’s economy stronger, will clean up the environment and will make us a better, safer and more independent nation.”

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Comments10 Responses to “T. Boone Pickens Statement on AT&T’s Decision to Upgrade 8,000 Fleet Vehicles to Run on Natural Gas”

March 11th, 2009 at 3:40 pm

Darold Boucher


This is extremely exciting. I would be even more excited except that I saw on one of the financial websites where T. Boone sold his entire stake in Clean Energy [CLNE] That was sort of a downer. He started the company, and now he's bailed out. I'd like to hear and see Boone address that

March 11th, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Christopher Haase


While I am not the strongest advocate for the entire plan, I do support nearly every 'ideal' of the program. Today I chose to voice my genuine congratulations to Mr. Pickens and AT

March 11th, 2009 at 5:47 pm

Richard Coffey


This is great news! Now if we can also get U.S. Postal Vehicles, police cars and more going to CNG... think of all the jobs it could create. I just sent an email to Cox Communications encouraging them to do the same thing. Everyone needs to keep talking it up at all levels to encourage municipal governments, large

March 11th, 2009 at 9:55 pm

Curtis Garrison


We don't know who we could contact to arrange this, but we'd love to feature the PickensPlan CNG cars and these AT

March 11th, 2009 at 11:54 pm

Mr. Mark H. Rode


we are 100% behind at

March 12th, 2009 at 12:03 am

Shelly Thomas


Pickens is portraying natural gas as "clean" and even uses the word "green". Natural gas is not clean and it's not green. It's a fossil fuel. It's not renewable. It's not a solution. Electric cars are a solution and they are being developed today. What transferring vehicles to natural gas does is put off the inevitable. -- a carbon cap is coming. "In fact, according to the EPA, compared to traditional vehicles, vehicles operating on compressed natural gas have reductions in carbon monoxide emissions of 90 to 97 percent, and reductions in carbon dioxide emissions of 25 percent." That is from naturalgas.org Obviously, carbon dioxide -- CO2 -- is a huge problem. It's the main greenhouse gas that is leading to climate change, and transferring vehicles to burning natural gas is not going to cut down on these emissions very much.

March 12th, 2009 at 8:34 am

Brian S. Siegel


You know the "perfect" can be the enemy of the "good". I'm surprised that you think that a 25% CO2 reduction is not worth pursuing. We have produced CNG vehicles on existing lines that are now idle and could easily do so again. And unlike other fossil fuels, we do have huge reserves of natural gas in North America. On the other hand, electric vehicles are (as you have correctly said) only in development, are not even close for trucks, and will certainly be very costly. They also will have significant upstream costs and indirect emissions. CNG may not be the final solution, but it can keep things going and improving until we get there.

March 12th, 2009 at 10:09 am

Bob Lehrer


Great news! Now, it would really be great if the Government followed suit. Also other companies that have a huge vehicle supply. But, electric would be better and cleaner. Small steps I guess are better than none at all!!!

March 12th, 2009 at 6:00 pm

Bryan Savage


You are worried about CO2. I'm not. I'm worried about CH4. It is 25 times more powerful as a GHG than CO2. There's a world full of it in permafrost and frozen under water. We'll never be able to afford the cost of soluations unless we can figure out a way to get the money. If we quit giving $700 Billion a year to foreigners we could spend it on targeted soluations. OBTW Don't think we can just borrow the money, China has already talked about not loaning us much more money (Sydney Morning Hearld about two weeks ago). We can not waste any more TIME. We don't have to waste. We start doing something, anything NOW, or we are dead meat. We've got to start somewhere, now!

April 26th, 2009 at 6:42 pm

Sean McDonald


I agree that CNG gas is neither Green or Clean and it has the same fluctuations as oil. Everyone is being conned into this idea when it is really about the money. If it is not renewable energy in my opinion it is a waste of time. Mr Boone is more concerned with profits than he is concerned about emissions. I am amazed by how many have fell under his spell. He uses windtures turbines that are in efficient and not the state of the art. Right now it is about the grant money for Mr Boone. It is always been about the money for Boone. The sooner you all figure this out the sooner you will understand his motivation. The best thing he did was provide this forum for us to all meet and help really sove these issues. Sean

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