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Article: T. Boone Pickens promotes natural gas bills at Long Beach convention

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September 23, 2009
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LONG BEACH - BP Capital Management founder and chairman T. Boone Pickens on Wednesday urged professionals in the solid waste industry to support two upcoming bills that would further efforts to make natural gas an alternative for fuel.

Pickens, who gave the presidential keynote address at the Solid Waste Association of North America's WASTECON 2009 at the Long Beach Convention Center, asked those in the audience to support HR 1835 and SB 1408, or the New Alternative Transportation to Give Americans Solutions Act, which would encourage and incentivize the use of natural gas as transportation fuel.

Switching out diesel-run vehicles such as 18-wheelers for those that run on natural gas could be ...

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