Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and T. Boone Pickens were partnering to help advance Kerry's climate change bill, the Dallas Morning News reported. Pickens said he saw the bill as a way to reach his goals for natural gas to power vehicles rather than as a way to combat climate change.
Pickens was quoted as saying: "I would rather go [with a] stand-alone [bill], but stand-alone was not an option. So I'm with climate. And I'm a good soldier. So I'm for the climate bill." He claimed that he was bringing "more votes to passing that bill than anything they bring to it," and that the portion of the bill providing incentives for using gas in vehicles was "the only piece" addressing oil imports. Kerry said the shift to gas would cut GHG emissions and represented "the single biggest energy independence move we can make."
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