I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Legendary Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens isn’t exactly known as a friend to Democrats. After all, Pickens is the guy who gave a hefty chunk of change — $5 million — to fund the swiftboat campaign against John Kerry and donated to the campaigns of many Republicans — including $1,000 to Steve Pearce in May of last year.
But Pickens today called freshman U.S. Rep. Harry Teague, a Hobbs Democrat, “a true energy independence crusader” for his support of a natural gas bill.
“As a supporter of the NAT GAS Act, Congressman Harry Teague is a true energy independence crusader, proving his commitment to enabling his constituents in southern New Mexico to choose a legitimately American fuel at the pump,” Pickens is quoted as saying in a statement. “Natural gas is the only available domestic resource that can replace foreign oil as a transportation fuel. It’s cleaner, it’s cheaper, it’s abundant, and it’s ours.”
Pickens has become an alternative energy evangelist, with his Pickens Plan which calls for more wind power and using natural gas instead of oil-based fuel for transportation.
“Natural gas is a clean, efficient, American source of power that will help us end our dangerous dependence on foreign oil and New Mexico has plenty of it,” Teague said in the same statement. “I’m proud to work with fellow oil man and leader in renewable energies, T. Boone Pickens and my Republican colleagues on this legislation that would help boost energy production in New Mexico.”
