Two legislators and five County Commissioners braved the snowy weather Friday to have an opportunity of a life time. Lunch with one of the wealthiest and accomplished gentleman in the world. Representative Josh Cockroft and Representative Mark McBride are authoring legislation that I came up to fund Counties for converting gasoline and diesel work truck fleets to CNG fuel fleets. Several County Commissioners attended the meeting and lunch in T Boones’ conference room in the high end area of Highland Park in Dallas (Clean Energy)
Clean Energy is the largest provider of natural gas fuel for transportation in North America, fueling over 30,000 vehicles each day at approximately 500 fueling stations throughout the United States and Canada. With a broad customer base in a variety of markets, including trucking, airport shuttles, taxis, refuse, and public transit, we build and operate compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling stations; manufacture CNG and LNG equipment and technologies for ourselves and other companies; and develop renewable natural gas (RNG) production facilities. Publicly traded on NASDAQ under the sign CLNE.
Rep. Mark McBride, Rep Josh Cockroft, Commissioner Russell Earls,Commissioner Rod Cleveland, Commissioner Jack Stewart, Commissioner Darry Stacy, Commissioner Assistant Jacob McHughes, Commissioner Ray Vaughn
Best known as a corporate raider for his runs at Gulf Oil, Unocal, Pioneer and others in the 1980s, in recent years T. Boone Pickens has focused on managing Dallas-based hedge funds and pushing his Pickens Plan to boost adoption of wind, solar, and especially natural gas. Plunging natural gas prices shelved a plan to build the world’s largest wind farm in Texas. Instead he’s pushing for a future of natural gas-powered vehicles. He got his start at Phillips Petroleum, then founded Mesa Petroleum in 1956. He led the Swift Boat attacks against John Kerry in 2004. In 2006 he donated $165 million to athletics program at alma mater Oklahoma State University. In 2008 he donated $100 million more to OSU academics. Divorcing from fourth wife Madeleine, but pre-nup will protect his assets. http://www.forbes.com/profile/t-boone-pickens/
The purposed legislation request a 5% appropriation annually for 5 years from gross production tax designated to General Revenue for the purpose to incentivize CNG technology for county and state agencies. New section in the County Road Improvement Act concerning Circuit Engineering Districts (purposed O.S. Title 69 Section 687.4).
- Purchase or convert to a Compressed Natural Gas fleet vehicles.
- Build the fueling facilities throughout Oklahoma at county owned locations. This would increase the footprint of available fueling stations for not only counties and state agencies but also for the general public.
The funding would be set up and administered by the Circuit Engineering District. Counties would be able to apply for funding to purchase CNG vehicles. The rules and procedures would be written and administered by the Oklahoma Cooperative Circuit Engineering Districts Board. This would provide incentive funding for counties to replace petrol fueled trucks and automobiles with a domestic and cheaper, cleaner burning fuel.
In order to make this transition to Compressed Natural Gas vehicles, the supply of easily available fuel is needed. The fund would be available for counties to build in partnership CNG fueling facilities with private sector CNG distributors. These facilities would be owned by the counties. The concession for operations, selling and maintaining would be bid out to the private sector. In return, the county and state agency vehicles would be able to fuel at a set cost.
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