The company, whose major shareholders and co-founders include billionaire oilman T. Boone Pickens,
has more than 200 fleet customers operating 13,000 natural gas vehicles,with 168 fueling stations in 10 states, by one industry estimate.
It’s already started:
Feds OK ban on older diesel trucks
http://www.presstelegram.com/news/ci_9618566
Port of Los Angeles prepares for Oct. 1 ‘Clean Truck’launch
http://www.landlinemag.com/todays_news/Daily/2008/Jun08/062308/062308-05.htm
By Dec. 31, 2009, 20 percent of drivers at the Port of Los Angeles will be required to be company employees.
That figure jumps to 66 percent by December 2010,
85 percent by 2011, 95 percent by 2012, and
100 percent by 2013.
Way to go teamsters
Pickens used to be an oilman. Then, he figured out he can make more money manipulating commodities futures.
Do not tarnish the name "oilman" by including Boone Pickens in this group of quintessential American capitalists.