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ALTERNATIVE FUELS * USA - Pickens Shifts Gears, Focuses On Natural Gas-Powered Trucks
New York,New York,USA -Clean Tech Brief -January 28, 2009: -- The financial crisis may have put his ambitious wind-power plans on hold, but Texas oil billionaire and clean energy advocate T. Boone Pickens has other plans to reduce American reliance on imported oil... Pickens is seeking up to $28 billion in federal economic stimulus incentives to convert about 350,000 heavy-duty trucks to natural gas from diesel. He told participants at the Cleantech Investor Summit in Palm Springs last week that he has met twice with President Barack Obama's transition team and leading Congressional Democrats to plug his plan... "We have an abundance of natural gas in America,” said Pickens, "It's cheaper, it's cleaner, and it's ours"...
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