300 $ le baril .....c'est Pickens qui le dit !

Legendary energy investor T. Boone Pickens says oil prices at $300 a barrel could become a reality in a decade if the U.S. does not commit to changing the way it consumes and and produces the commodity. As the largest shareholder in Clean Energy Fuels (CLNE), Pickens has become a champion of increased natural gas usage over the past several years. Pickens made the comments about $300 oil in an interview with the ABC affiliate in Waco, Texas, reiterating the dangers of continuing to import oil from OPEC and that the U.S. has been void of a real energy plan for 40 years. Pickens’ firm BP Capital Management counts some of the world’s largest oil companies among its top holdings. Even with stakes in companies such as BP (BP), Europe’s second-largest oil company, and Occidental Petroleum (OXY), the fourth-largest U.S. oil company, as of the end of 2010, Pickens is a strong advocate for increasing natural gas consumption and points to heavy vehicles, such as big rigs, as an ideal place to start. “We can get to 8 million 18-wheelers with natural gas in seven years, and that would cut our OPEC oil in half,” Pickens said in the interview. BP Capital Management also held stakes in companies with significant natural gas exposure such as Chesapeake Energy (CHK), the second-largest U.S. producer of the fuel, and Devon Energy (DVN) and EOG Resources (EOG) at the end of 2010.