{"id":547286,"date":"2010-04-29T14:12:20","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/oil-spill-natural-gas-bill-2010-4"},"modified":"2010-04-29T14:12:20","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T18:12:20","slug":"and-now-we-know-why-t-boone-pickens-is-smiling-today-clne-wprt-cmi-bp-ung","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547286","title":{"rendered":"And Now We Know Why T. Boone Pickens Is Smiling Today (CLNE, WPRT, CMI, BP, UNG)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4bd9c9607f8b9a320b920800-322-241\/t-boone-pickens.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"T. Boone Pickens\" width=\"322\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s do some back-of-the-envelope math<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There was just a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/west-virginia-mine-disaster-2010-4\">huge mining disaster<\/a> in West Virginia.<\/li>\n<li>Today there was another (much smaller) mining disaster in Kentucky.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/map-of-the-day-the-12-billion-oil-spill-courtesy-of-bp-and-transocean-2010-4\">In the Gulf there&#8217;s an oil spill<\/a> that some are calling the next Exxon-Valdez.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Add it all up: We&#8217;re going to get the big<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/congressman-natural-gas-act-has-real-chance-of-meeting-t-boones-may-deadline-2010-4\"> T. Boone Pickens endorsed &#8220;Climate&#8221; bill<\/a>, which has nothing to do with climate, and everything to do with subsidizing natural gas.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s status in the Senate has been in limbo, but now we think it&#8217;s a done deal.<\/p>\n<p>Disagree? Not convinced?<\/p>\n<p>Well consider that natural gas is <a href=\"http:\/\/finviz.com\/futures_charts.ashx?t=NG\">getting absolutely bludgeoned toda<\/a>y &#8212; down over 8% &#8212; and yet many names leveraged to natural gas are doing great.<\/p>\n<p>A few of the companies that would benefit from the passage of the bill are doing nicely.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>T. Boone&#8217;s own Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (CLNE) is up .75%.<\/li>\n<li>Westport Innovations (WPRT), which would be involved in natural gas engines, is up over 4%.<\/li>\n<li>Cummins (CMI) which is a partner of Westport is up nearly 3%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The oil services companies and folks like BP (BP) are getting slammed today, and natural gas (UNG) is a horror show, but those companies that stand to benefit from a big taxpayer gift are doing quite fine. That&#8217;s why T. Boone Pickens is smiling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t miss: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/why-natural-gas-cant-run-like-other-commodities-2009-10\">Why natural gas investors perpetually miss their big payoff &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/oil-spill-natural-gas-bill-2010-4#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/congressman-natural-gas-act-has-real-chance-of-meeting-t-boones-may-deadline-2010-4\">The Taxpayer&#8217;s Big Gift To T. Boone Pickens Has A &quot;Real Chance&quot; Of Coming By May<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/map-of-the-day-the-12-billion-oil-spill-courtesy-of-bp-and-transocean-2010-4\">MAP OF THE DAY: BP&#8217;s $12 Billion Nightmare<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/wait-is-american-offshore-drilling-about-to-go-bye-bye-2010-4\">Wait, Is American Offshore Drilling About To Go Bye-Bye?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/V8CS8Cx3dfESPIuDKDDn9NVNg7Q\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/V8CS8Cx3dfESPIuDKDDn9NVNg7Q\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/V8CS8Cx3dfESPIuDKDDn9NVNg7Q\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~at\/V8CS8Cx3dfESPIuDKDDn9NVNg7Q\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=NzppUebH_gA:_MW0oGEsWpw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=NzppUebH_gA:_MW0oGEsWpw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=NzppUebH_gA:_MW0oGEsWpw:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=NzppUebH_gA:_MW0oGEsWpw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=NzppUebH_gA:_MW0oGEsWpw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=NzppUebH_gA:_MW0oGEsWpw:qj6IDK7rITs\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?d=qj6IDK7rITs\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?a=NzppUebH_gA:_MW0oGEsWpw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/greensheet?i=NzppUebH_gA:_MW0oGEsWpw:gIN9vFwOqvQ\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/greensheet\/~4\/NzppUebH_gA\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s do some back-of-the-envelope math There was just a huge mining disaster in West Virginia. Today there was another (much smaller) mining disaster in Kentucky. In the Gulf there&#8217;s an oil spill that some are calling the next Exxon-Valdez. Add it all up: We&#8217;re going to get the big T. Boone Pickens endorsed &#8220;Climate&#8221; bill, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}