Topic: T. Boone Pickens

With all this natural gas, who needs oil?

It's home-grown, plentiful, and touted as the best way to wean the US off Mideast oil. But there are limits to how far the US can tilt toward a natural gas economy. 

The Masters: 12 women candidates for Augusta National membership

The Augusta National Golf Club has steadfastly refused to alter its all-male membership. But circumstances may soon cause the gender barrier to break, and if it does there are several women who might be good fits for the club.

We should applaud when America is no longer exceptional in the world

Free enterprise flowered in the early United States as in no other nation. That made the US exceptional. In the 21st century, free enterprise has gone global. That's a good thing -- especially if other freedoms follow.

New energy: climate change and sustainability shape a new era

A new energy revolution – similar to shifts from wood to coal to oil – is inevitable as climate change and oil scarcity drive a global search for sustainability in power production. But even the promise of renewable energy holds drawbacks.

In defense of the modern research university

Research universities aren't perfect, but they do have a role to play. They should start by reallocating their best resources, their faculty, to serve the undergraduates instead of the graduates.

The last of the oil barons

One major difference between the oil barons of the past and today's oil corporations is that back then, they started out with nothing.

What has 18 wheels and employs 600,000 people?

The American Power Act subsidizes natural gas for the trucking industry. A well-executed green conversion for the some three million trucks on road right now would not only reduce carbon emissions but add more than half-a-million green jobs to the economy.

Nuclear power’s new debate: cost

Issues of safety and waste make way for a focus on funding.

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Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet

Photosynthesis may be the energy answer we seek.

Letters to the Editor

Readers write about ethanol, subway "smart card" security, and potatoes.

Congress to vote on drilling ban

In a shift on Saturday, Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that the House will take up comprehensive energy legislation next month that includes partially lifting the 1981 ban on offshore drilling.

Obama back on the campaign trail

Letters to the Editor

Readers write about earth-friendly diets, home births, Olympic boycotts, and alternative energy.

A tipping point in America's mood

There is a new awareness of the challenges we face.

Full speed ahead on new energy

T. Boone Pickens and Al Gore challenge the next president to remake the US energy industry.

Patriotic answer to $4-a-gallon gas: Drive less, and slow down

Don't wait for a tech fix. Help America save big by driving 55.

Pickens: Oil production has peaked

Speaking at a Senate committee hearing, legendary Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens said that world crude oil production has topped out.

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