Natural Gas

Compressed Natural Gas Cars: What Are They?

Huffington Post | Johanna Smith | Posted 11.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Compressed Natural Gas Engines, Honda Civic GX, Compressed Natural Gas Cars, Compressed Natural Gas, Energy, CNG Ford Mustange, Alternative Energy, Ford, Porsche, American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy, Toyota, Honda, Alterantive Fuels, Environment, Porsche Cevennes Turbo CNG, Toyota CNG Hybrid, Natural Gas, Green News

Surprise: the most eco-friendly car sold in America isn't the Toyota Prius. It's the Honda Civic GX, which runs on compressed natural gas, according t...

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The Problem With A Trillion Dollars Of Natural Gas

AP | MARY ESCH | Posted 11.17.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Natural Gas Drilling, Marcellus Shale, Green Energy, Natural Gas, Green News

ALBANY, N.Y. — Advanced drilling techniques that blast millions of gallons of water into 400-million-year-old shale formations a mile undergroun...

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Pickens buying CA vote?

A. Siegel | Posted 11.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Energy, T. Boone Pickens, California Proposition 10, Proposition 10, California Propositions, Transportation, Natural Gas, Politics News
A. Siegel

In 2004, T. Boone Pickens invested his money in trashing John Kerry and helping doom us to four more years via Swift Boat Veterans for Truthiness. I...

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Global Obama: Big Opportunities, Bigger Challenges

William Bradley | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Venezuela, Britain, Tunisia, Opec, Missile Shield, Iran, Georgia, Vladimir Putin, Qatar, Ukraine, Arctic, Boris Johnson, Libya, Energy Future, Barack Obama, Presidential Campaign, Germany, Petro Rush, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Oil, Dmitry Medvedev, Iraq, Israel, John McCain, Natural Gas, John F. Kennedy, Joe Biden, Persian Gulf, Middle East, Afghanistan, Czech Republic, Poland, Politics News
William Bradley

If he wins, Obama will have the global popularity that no American president has had in a great many years.

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Boone Pickens Caught in Several More Lies on Frontline

Josh Nelson | Posted 10.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Pbs, T. Boone Pickens, Energy Independence, Politics, Heat, Natural Gas, Pickens Plan, Foreign Oil, Green, Global Warming, Energy, Boone Pickens, Climate Change, Green News
Josh Nelson

It is starting to look like Pickens has a bad habit of telling a few whoppers in every public appearance. Lie #1: Democratic candidates don't know how reducing CO2 emissions by 60-80% is possible.

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Russia, Iran and Qatar discuss forming gas cartel

AP | NASSER KARIMI | Posted 10.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Opec, Natural Gas, Natural Gas Cartel, Iran, Qatar, Russia, Energy, Energy Cartel, Business News

TEHRAN, Iran — Russia, Iran and Qatar made the first serious moves Tuesday toward forming an OPEC-style cartel on natural gas, raising concerns ...

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Gas Companies Disconnecting Thousands

Crain's Chicago Business | Steve Daniels | Posted 10.13.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Gas Prices, Gas Shut Offs, Chicago Gas Companies, Nicor, Chicago Natural Gas, Utility Costs, Recession, Natural Gas, Peoples Gas, Peoples Gas Rate Increase, Chicago News

On the brink of the cold-weather months, more than 56,000 natural-gas customers in the Chicago area remain disconnected for lack of payment. That's up...

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Picky About the Pickens Plan

Christiana Wyly | Posted 09.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, George Bush, Energy Prices, Clean Coal, George W. Bush, Energy Crisis, Clean Energy, Big Oil Profits, Green Energy, Energy Policy, T. Boone Pickens Wind Turbines, Texas, Corn Prices, Oil Drilling, Green Technology, 2008 Presidential Race, T.Boone Pickens, Oil, Oil Prices, Natural Gas, President Bush, Pickens Plan, Green News
Christiana Wyly

"Son, I used to be IN the Oil Lobby! We don't have to worry about them. We the people are more powerful than any lobby any day of the week."

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Alaska Does Not, In Fact, Supply 20% of the Nation's Energy

David Roberts | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Oil, Energy, Lies, John McCain, Alaska, Natural Gas, Sarah Palin, Politics News
David Roberts

This assertion from the McCain/Palin campaign is demonstrably false, based on U.S. government sources. It's been debunked several times. And yet they keep repeating it.

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Fossil Fuel Addicts Relentless in their Pursuit of Junk

Josh Nelson | Posted 09.02.2008 | Green

Read More: New Orleans, Foreign Oil, Hurricane Gustav, Oil, Oil Prices, Energy Independence, Geroge W. Bush, Natural Gas, Green News
Josh Nelson

Yet another weather-related disruption to domestic oil production really highlights the foolishness of the drill everywhere drill always crowd.

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Surge In Natural Gas Has Utah Driving Cheaply

New York Times | CLIFFORD KRAUSS | Posted 08.30.2008 | Business

Read More: Utah, Utah Natural Gas, Natural Gas, Business News

The best deal on fuel in the country right now might be here in Utah, where people are waiting in lines to pay the equivalent of 87 cents a gallon. De...

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Democrats Should Not be Praising T. Boone Pickens

Josh Nelson | Posted 08.22.2008 | Politics

Read More: T. Boone Pickens, Dick Durbin, Harry Reid, Environmentalism, Natural Gas, Carl Pope, Energy, Democrats, Pickens Plan, Barack Obama, Democratic Convention, Dnc, Politics News
Josh Nelson

Can anyone explain to me why I am supposed to put up with leaders of the environmental movement and Democratic party praising a man who is an enemy of both?

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Your Utility Bills are Going Up. What are You Going to Do About it?

Collin Dunn | Posted 08.22.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Home Heating, Natural Gas, Gas Bills, Green News
Collin Dunn

Earlier this week I received a very polite letter from my local natural gas utility. It's message: Your rates are going to increase by 35-40 percent t...

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CON GAMES: T. Boone's Doggle

Michael Conniff | Posted 08.19.2008 | Green

Read More: Oil, Wind, Environment, Hedge Fund, T Boone Pickens, Natural Gas, Wind Power, Green Energy, Green News
Michael Conniff

In the history of television advertising, has any private citizen ever ponyed up $50 million-plus for the greater good of the American people, with no strings attached?

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T. Boone Pickens: From Swift Boater To Pluralist

Larry Gellman | Posted 08.19.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jewish Wisdom, Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, John McCain, T. Boone Pickens, Aspen, Swift Boat, Alternative Energy, Talmud, Aspen Institute, Renewable Energy, Energy Policy, Barack Obama, T. Boone Pickens Wind Turbines, Swiftboating, Pluralism, Swift Boat Veterans, Jewish, 2008 Presidential Race, Natural Gas, Pickens Plan, Energy, Politics News
Larry Gellman

In just a few years Pickens has moved from being a totally partisan political animal to a man who is looking for the partial truth in the disparate views of a variety of people.

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Rumors Of The Next Cold War

Judah Freed | Posted 08.19.2008 | Home

Read More: Europe, Pakistan, Czechoslovakia, Balance of World Power, Hitler, Czarist Empire, Germany, Washington Post, Natural Gas, Saakashvili, Turkey, Communist Revolution, Czarist Russia, Russia Georgia War, Medvedev, Machiavelli, Tajikistan, Fall of the Soviet Empire, India, Trans-Caucasus Pipeline, The Washington Post, Russian Empire, Free Markets, Nazi Germany, Caspian Sea, World History, Oil Pipeline, Market Reforms, Napoleon, Azeri Chirag Gunashli Oil Fields, Putin, Iran, Kgb, Nato, 1917, Financial TImes, Balance of Power, Ukraine, Missile Defense Shield, Russia, Collapse of the Soviet Empire, Caucasus Mountains, World Power, Kazakhstan, Mikhail Saakashvili, Yeltsin, Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin, Afghanistan, Mediterranean Sea, South Ossetia, Kremlin, Uzbekistan, Mt. Elbrus, Black Sea, France, Czar, Moscow, Georgia, Oil, Soviet Empire, New York Times, Realpolitik, Alexander Yeltsin, China. 1917 Communist Revolution, Cease-Fire, Baku, Shevardnadze, Turkmenistan, Ceyhan, Kygyzstan, Azerbaijan, Sudetenland, Tbilisi, Machiavellian, Balkan, Home News
Judah Freed

No matter how subtly the conquest happens, Russian control of Georgia would amount to an historic shift in the balance of power -- especially as long as the world economy is fueled by oil.

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From Oil To Natural Gas Heating: More Americans Switching

Wall Street Journal | Jeremy Singer-Vine | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green

Read More: Home Care, Oil, Oil Prices, Green, Green News, Environment, Homeowners, Natural Gas, Home Heating, Green Living, Green News

Suzanne and Dave Francione figured they could reduce their heating bill by $1,300 this winter by switching from oil to natural gas, so they called the...

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"D-Carbon" Brings Solar to the Coalfields

Josh Dorner | Posted 08.12.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Wind Power, Minnesota, Schuylkill County, Anthracite, Renewable Electricity Standard, Ed Rendell, Mountaintop-Removal Mining, Carbon County, United Mine Workers of America, Coal, Pennsylvania, Gamesa, Natural Gas, Al Gore, Global Warming, Solar Power, Green News
Josh Dorner

Carbon County, in a poetic turn, is now set to host the second largest solar facility in the nation.

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Drilling Is Up, Prices Are Up

New York Times | Felicity Barringer | Posted 08.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Anwr, Oil, Onshore Drilling, Offshore Drilling, Natural Gas, Green News

With the advent of $4-a-gallon gasoline has come a bruising debate in Congress over whether to intensify efforts to drill on federal lands, including ...

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Culture Zohn: T. Boone and Me: Red Oil Man and Blue Boomer Girl Have Something in Common

Patricia Zohn | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green

Read More: T.Boone Pickens, Swift Boaters, Natural Gas, Pickens Plan, Prius, Green Energy, John Kerry, Texas Wind Power, Green News
Patricia Zohn

2008-08-01-pzohn.jpgBoone and I have something in common besides the fact that we are both interested in a Green solution this time, not Red or Blue: we have both reinvented ourselves a whole bunch.

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Pickens Calls For "Army" To Support Energy Plan

Yahoo | Carey Gillam | Posted 07.31.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, T. Boone Pickens, Oil Industry, Oil, Oil Prices, Green, Green News, Environment, Natural Gas, Pickens Plan, Green News

TOPEKA, Kansas (Reuters) - Energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens said on Wednesday he is creating an "army" of business leaders and mainstream Americans to l...

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What Pickens Has Right, What He Has Wrong

ClimateProgress | Posted 07.28.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, T. Boone Pickens, Joe Romm, Alternative Energy, Economy, Pickens Plan, Oil, Jobs, Colorado, Texas, Natural Gas, Green News

Everybody's been talking Pickens lately, but ClimateProgress gets down and dirty. For some of the most complete analysis of the "Pickens Plan," read o...

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"This Is One Emergency We Can't Drill Our Way Out Of"

Carl Pope | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Wind Power, Energy, Compressed Natural Gas Engines, Natural Gas, Cng, T Boone Pickens, Green News
Carl Pope

T. Boone Pickens plans to move into using wind power to back out natural gas currently used for power, and then using the gas to replace imported oil.

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T. Boone and Me

Carl Pope | Posted 07.03.2008 | Green

Read More: Energy, Wind Power, Gas Prices, T. Boone Pickens, Environment, Compressed Natural Gas Engines, Natural Gas, Cng, Wind Turbines, Green News
Carl Pope

Flying to visit his wind operations in Sweetwater, Texas, T. Boone Pickens makes it clear that his next wind project is big, Texas-style -- 4,000 megawatts up in the Panhandle north of here.

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Clean Energy Cost Comparisons Looking Better and Better

Clint Wilder | Posted 06.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Gas Prices, Electric Rates, American Electric Power, Oil Prices, Clean Energy, Coal, Solar Power, Natural Gas, Business News
Clint Wilder

The global run-up in oil and gasoline prices may be the big story of the year so far. But guess what else is going up, in some cases dramatically? The cost of electricity.

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