July 31, 2008
Los Angeles Times
LA Times Op-Ed About “Pickens’ ‘clean’ secret: Prop 10 would put California taxpayers on the hook for his natural gas plan”
The Los Angeles Times—Texas oil billionaire T. Boone Pickens is pushing a national campaign to make the U.S. “energy independent” through wind power and vehicles that run on natural gas. … But natural gas is a nonrenewable fossil fuel that we import from foreign sources, and it is no better (and in some cases worse) when it comes to emissions and fuel efficiency compared with the best hybrid cars or the new ultra-clean diesel engines. Read the full story here